depriming live primers

[Beeron]

Throw your neck sizing die in the garbage where all such nonsense belongs!

Then,
There is no issue full length sizing primed brass.
U can either remove the expander ball assembly and then size the neck with a mandrel later.

OR,

Remove the expander bass assemble and unscrew that ball, remove the decapping pin, and reassemble.

Then FL size as normal.
Powder, pill, pew pew!!

 

[safehunter]

Popped them out using in a lee decapping die in a lee classic cast.
I survived. No problems. No pops.
I did soak them in soapy water for a few days. Maybe helped, maybe not. At least my brass is shiny.
I agree I coulda/shoulda used the full length die. Maybe when I get my new reloading room set up...
Thanks again for the help.

 

[track]

I've decaped a few, not many though and never had an incident. I view it as a true sign of a handloader.

 

[ipscgraz]

I haven't read the whole thread, but I have deprimed lots of brass. Kinetic bullet puller, save what you can of the powder (if you know for sure what the powder is !), and deprime using your sizing die.

I re-use the primers for practice ammo but not for a hunt or a match.

 

[Deathrawt]

I just pulled bullets/powder in 20 6.5 rem mag cases for a friend and deprimed them on a classic cast turret press with a Lee full length sized die and nothing blew up
I however had a bit of an incident when I decided to light up the pile of powder from the rounds with a blue laser afterwards lol

 

[mactroneng]

I haven't read the whole thread, but I have deprimed lots of brass. Kinetic bullet puller, save what you can of the powder (if you know for sure what the powder is !), and deprime using your sizing die.

I re-use the primers for practice ammo but not for a hunt or a match.

Ugh, at least use a collet die for pulling the bullets, quieter, not near as much of a pain in the a$$ and saving the powder is much easier.

 

[Butcherbill]

Popped them out using in a lee decapping die in a lee classic cast.
I survived. No problems. No pops.
I did soak them in soapy water for a few days. Maybe helped, maybe not. At least my brass is shiny.
I agree I coulda/shoulda used the full length die. Maybe when I get my new reloading room set up...
Thanks again for the help.

Right on, it’s not much of an issue with the right tool and light touch. Now you know it’s safely possible to do as well, I like the Lee universal decaping die. I use it a fair bit while prepping brass prior to cleaning, like most Lee tools it works well.

I personally reuse the primers for fouling/plinking loads, with the price of primers I’ll reuse as much as I can lol.

 

[fingers284]

Ha Ha Ha I have safely de-primed dozens of live primers as others have said here but by coincidence I was just reading my 650 Dillon manual on another issue when I noticed, and I quote "never try to de-prime live primers, it is the most dangerous task you could try with this equipment"

 

[mactroneng]

Ha Ha Ha I have safely de-primed dozens of live primers as others have said here but by coincidence I was just reading my 650 Dillon manual on another issue when I noticed, and I quote "never try to de-prime live primers, it is the most dangerous task you could try with this equipment"

To be completely fair, I wouldn't try to de-prime a live primer on a progressive press for two reasons:

1) A lot of moving parts and stuff to hit by accident (yes, they shouldn't be moving much and you should be careful when raising the ram, but you never know), and

2) The spend primer drop tube on my progressive is fifthly with spent primer crud and I don't want a good primer covered in that.

Whenever I've had to de-prime a live on I've always used by single stage press.