I was looking through some 1 time fired brass for my 32 win spl ,and noticed 1pc of brass had the primer popped out from the head this was not fired from my gun I got them at a gun show. when you see things like that is a good idea to reload them or toss them to be on the safe side ????? to me it looks like the guy made it to hot and there was extra pressure right?????
once fired brass question
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Not necessarily. The primer pockets could be just worn to the point of not holding the primer any more. OR someone could have simply punched the primer out for whatever reason. Inspect the brass. If it looks OK try seating a new primer. You will tell immediately if the primer pocket is too loose.
Yup, I would just try to seat a new primer. If you want to be really sure, take a paper clip and bend a 90 deg. angle on one end. Stick it in the mouth, all the way down to the head and scrape it along the sidewall where the head meets the main body. If it catches on something at that join, chuck it... if not, and it will hold a primer... shoot it...C.
All my 30-30 primers back out of the primer pocket because the chamber pressure is not great enough to force the rear of the case against the bolt face. This is called headspacing on the primer and happens to any firearm, if you work up a load from the suggested starting load you will see the same thing. A over gassed AR15 will pop the primers out of the primer pocket with loose primer pockets and land in the trigger group jamming the rifle.
As stated above just seat a new primer and see how it feels being seated. If I have any doubts about a seated primer I use a Lee decapping tool and if I can push the primer out with just finger pressure the case goes in the scrap brass bucket.
You can also buy some pin gauges and use them as GO NO-GO gauges for your primer pockets and save the time of seating primers in oversized primer pockets.
As stated above just seat a new primer and see how it feels being seated. If I have any doubts about a seated primer I use a Lee decapping tool and if I can push the primer out with just finger pressure the case goes in the scrap brass bucket.
You can also buy some pin gauges and use them as GO NO-GO gauges for your primer pockets and save the time of seating primers in oversized primer pockets.
