De-priming live brass

Dogleg said:
You might be able to deprime a million without problems. Trouble is, if one does go off it's pointing right at your pecker. Your call.
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It's a Freeking primer, not a bazooka round. Like I said above, its is in a die, held by a shell holder on the end of a heavily built ram, in a cast iron press. Even if it goes off, zero happens.

When I was a kid we used to stick live 12 guage rounds in hay bales and shoot them in the primer with a 22 from 25 to 75 yards. All that happens is the empty hull comes back about 15 yards. Shot, wad etc stays sitting in the bale where the shotgun shell started from.

Also as a kid, we used to set primers off on the concrete floor with hammers, lots of fun and zero injuries, though there probably would have been if my dad found out.

Neither practice do I recommend, but I know for sure what a single primer is capable of and they aren't gonna replace hand grenades any time soon.
 
just like below... no problems... done lots - too many to count...

I even had one go pop... was kinda neat... naturally I was wearing safety shades...

CyaN1de said:
Must this come up EVERY month?

Just decap the live primers, put em in a box and use for load testing or plinking.

No oil, No water, No VooDoo Magic and No HAZMAT suit required.

I have done hundreds without a single bang and I decap the same as I would with a spent primer.
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It's a Freeking primer, not a bazooka round. Like I said above, its is in a die, held by a shell holder on the end of a heavily built ram, in a cast iron press. Even if it goes off, zero happens.
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If you look again, it is contained by exactly nothing. The shellholder has that neat little hole in the center for decapping, and that's exactly which way the primer would go. Richard Lee chronographed explodeing primers at a bit over1400 fps.
 
Dogleg said:
If you look again, it is contained by exactly nothing. The shellholder has that neat little hole in the center for decapping, and that's exactly which way the primer would go. Richard Lee chronographed explodeing primers at a bit over1400 fps.
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Mine come out the back of the ram away from my pecker.... :D
 
CyaN1de said:
Mine come out the back of the ram away from my pecker.... :D
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I can't dismiss the richochet possibilities.;) All in all, way to much downside for not enough upside. Best case scenario he saves $2 worth of primers or zero dollars worth of noise, worst case he sings saprano. Even if the odds are long, the pay-off isn't there, cost benefit analysely speaking.
 
DL

Have you considered taking up knitting or do those really sharp needles scare you too?:p:):cheers:

Seriously, if it worries you don't do it. I would never do something that made me fell uncomfortable and neither should anyone else.
 
Dean2 said:
DL

Have you considered taking up knitting or do those really sharp needles scare you too?:p:):cheers:

Seriously, if it worries you don't do it. I would never do something that made me fell uncomfortable and neither should anyone else.
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I'm too busy trying to keep 70+ guns fed and shot to take time up knitting. However I do have an open mind. Did it take you long to learn?
 
I am not trying to save primers!!!

I wanna clean and size the brass my way, I purchased the brass with the primers already in. I really don't care about $1.50 worth of primers that i didn't install.

Into the press they go!!!!
 
Kelly Timoffee said:
I am not trying to save primers!!!

I wanna clean and size the brass my way, I purchased the brass with the primers already in. I really don't care about $1.50 worth of primers that i didn't install.

Into the press they go!!!!
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If these are already sized and primed, I'd load them to fireform in my rifle, shoot em, then do what ever you think you need to do after that. FS
 
I've done it, with a fair bit of caution. I use a Lee decapping die because it doesn't seal like a resizing die. I prefer that because with no seal, there is no chance of the primer doing more than releasing some hot gases. Although I doubt a primer could do much encased in a die.
 
Well, after getting a bomb technician suit, sealing my room in concrete and steel I proceeded to de-prime my brass!!

Boy was I ever shocked at the results.

I still have my pecker, eyes, and fingers!!

Went very easily with my Lee collet die.
 
Kelly Timoffee said:
Well, after getting a bomb technician suit, sealing my room in concrete and steel I proceeded to de-prime my brass!!

Boy was I ever shocked at the results.

I still have my pecker, eyes, and fingers!!

Went very easily with my Lee collet die.
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really not sure what the fuss is always about. As kids we used to shoot small rifle primers from our air rifles. Always cool when they went "bang" if they hit something solid, like a tin can target. The expected (and reported here) 8 megaton explosion that occurred somehow left the tin can with only a dent, unless we were really close and then it went through.
 
Under my loading bench is my junk pail. Any damaged primes end up in there. My wife has come along, noticed the pail had mostly papers and cardboard type of stuff in it and dumped it in our fireplace, which has glass doors. Later, she told me, "There was some popping going on in the fireplace, after I dumped your pail of garbage in it!"
So much for disposing of ruined primers.
 
I agree, I had friends tell me don't even think about it,lol

It's not like you are striking the reactive side of the primer. Do everything nice and consistent, no issues.

So yeah, not sure what the hub-bub is all about.


rookie wildcat said:
really not sure what the fuss is always about. As kids we used to shoot small rifle primers from our air rifles. Always cool when they went "bang" if they hit something solid, like a tin can target. The expected (and reported here) 8 megaton explosion that occurred somehow left the tin can with only a dent, unless we were really close and then it went through.
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