Has anyone ever had a primer go off when seating it?

No in 45 years of loading and never heard of it. But I'm always cautious, I have Lee press attachment, wear glasses and sit lower than the mouth of the brass.
 
rideonjon said:
Has anyone ever had a primer go off when seating it?

i had one go off on Sunday while installing some Federal LRP into some .243 Win brass.

Luckily it was pointed away from my face,gave my wife a scare though.

Hornady hand primer with the appropriate large rifle primer rod.

First time out of probably 5000 rounds loaded.
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Never for me in 55 plus years . Lucky 🍀 probably.
Any how - any damage to anything or just - What 🤷🏼‍♂️ BANG and some smoke ? or ? RJ
 
stewbud said:
I prime by hand and have never had a primer go off when priming. 30 years of handloading with Lee stuff.

I know an experienced reloader who had his new Dillon blow a whole tube of primers. After an underwear change he also installed the blast shield.

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I prime using the Lever Primer System on the Lee Classic Turret but I don't use their Safety Prime Tool. I place them one by one from a primer tray and have also disabled the auto indexing. I have never set off a primer and can still make 100 rounds in 30 minutes which is good enough for me.
 
I don't even want to guess how many rounds I have loaded, it would be close enough to 300,000. I have personally never set off a primer however, I was teaching a friend how to reload and he set off two in one session with an rcbs hand primer. He would squeeze, let off and squeeze again. This put a primer partially into the pocket and allowed another one under it. No damage or chain reaction. The safety mechanisms to vent the gasses worked as intended.
 
remington jim said:
Never for me in 55 plus years . Lucky 🍀 probably.
Any how - any damage to anything or just - What 🤷🏼‍♂️ BANG and some smoke ? or ? RJ
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Hey Jim,i bought some 300WSM cases from you a while back on GP.

Hope all is well.

I had the case pointed away from me when it went off but i caught the flame coming out of the case neck out of the corner of my eye.

Wife was watching Yellowstone and she may have peed herself a little.

:D
 
woodchopper said:
never had it happen to me, and I've set primers up side down and crushed a few sideways and done a lot of depriming brass / removing live primers to salvage some primers.
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Same here just lucky I guess, but it still may happen , I’m not done reloading yet , but I seem to be more careful the older I get , been reloading since the early 80’s
 
mmcintyre1220 said:
I don't even want to guess how many rounds I have loaded, it would be close enough to 300,000. I have personally never set off a primer however, I was teaching a friend how to reload and he set off two in one session with an rcbs hand primer. He would squeeze, let off and squeeze again. This put a primer partially into the pocket and allowed another one under it. No damage or chain reaction. The safety mechanisms to vent the gasses worked as intended.
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This could be used as a classic example of why not to "re-seat" high primers in a charged cartridge...you are messing with a "small live hand grenade" to do so.
 
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