Removing a live primer?

Ruger007 said:
I was using my rcbs priming tool last night for the first time, and got 5 in a 100 in side ways. Maybe not advisable but i used my sizing die to remove, took little or no pressure. but do with caution!
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The tolerences for the priming tools are pretty tight.
Are you using large primers or small?
Could you be using the wrong size primer rod etc?
 
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Ganderite said:
Use your decapping die. No big deal.

Shock is what set off a primer. Slow presure, with in reason, is no big deal.

I get one in sideays from time to time. When i feel the resitance I stop and i just flick it out with a small screwdriver.
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Ganderite, they do not listen to us, when we tell them to just push the live primer out.
I don't know how many times this subject has come up in the last couple of years, but it is always the same. About a third of us answering will just say to push out the live primer. The other two thirds will come up with some great "safe" way to do it, but I don't think we have convinced any new reloader that all they have to do is push it out.
Just this morning I was talking to a friend who has also been reloading for forty years plus. I was thnking of this thread, which I had just read, so I asked him how he took a live primer out of the case. He looked at me, almost in bewilderment, wondering what had gotten into me, then said, "I put it in the sizer and push it out, of course!"
 
sunray said:
"...don't think I want to push those out with my depriming die..." No big deal. Just push it out, slowly. Same thing if the primer is in sideways. No need to do anything else.
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Cool. I thought for sure it would go bang. I tried it and it did't go bang. Thanks! You guys saved me $.20 ;)
 
H4831 said:
Ganderite, they do not listen to us, when we tell them to just push the live primer out.
I don't know how many times this subject has come up in the last couple of years, but it is always the same. About a third of us answering will just say to push out the live primer. The other two thirds will come up with some great "safe" way to do it, but I don't think we have convinced any new reloader that all they have to do is push it out.
Just this morning I was talking to a friend who has also been reloading for forty years plus. I was thnking of this thread, which I had just read, so I asked him how he took a live primer out of the case. He looked at me, almost in bewilderment, wondering what had gotten into me, then said, "I put it in the sizer and push it out, of course!"
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I believe :D
 
H4831 said:
Ganderite, they do not listen to us, when we tell them to just push the live primer out.
I don't know how many times this subject has come up in the last couple of years, but it is always the same. About a third of us answering will just say to push out the live primer. The other two thirds will come up with some great "safe" way to do it, but I don't think we have convinced any new reloader that all they have to do is push it out.
Just this morning I was talking to a friend who has also been reloading for forty years plus. I was thnking of this thread, which I had just read, so I asked him how he took a live primer out of the case. He looked at me, almost in bewilderment, wondering what had gotten into me, then said, "I put it in the sizer and push it out, of course!"
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Yes, the "It's Dangerous!" gang never fails to throw the "water, WD-40 or oil" solution out there.

I always follow the same process - either a F/L Sizing Die, or my Lee Universal deprimer.

I did 50 two weeks ago. Bought them as handloads and thought I'd break them down to components and toss the powder. I've done probably 100 before that, in smaller groups (lots of ones and twos).

Zero have gone off.

If one ever did, I know excatly what would happen, because I've had two go off while priming with a Lee Loader. Lost half my face and the house came down! Actually, no, it went "bang" and I carried on.
 
you could probably press it out very slowly while looking the other way with safety glasses!:ninja:....:ninja:

i almsot did this like 10 times with my lee hand primer....just started reloading tonite;)....love it....
 
If you're still scared of a primer, put on your safety gear, put one on the concrete shop floor and whack it with a hammer. Better to know that there's nothing in a primer alone that's going hurt you if it goes off, unless the thing is in your closed fist.
 
rommelrommel said:
If you're still scared of a primer, put on your safety gear, put one on the concrete shop floor and whack it with a hammer. Better to know that there's nothing in a primer alone that's going hurt you if it goes off, unless the thing is in your closed fist.
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That is not entirely true. While I have never had a primer go off when pushing them out with a die(100's and I'm not always gentle) I have had a couple go off while priming. Depending on the circumstances, bits of the primer itself can become shrapnel. And it can break skin. Hence all the recommendations to be wearing safety glasses.
 
I've pushed out a few over the years never had any go off,safety glasses and
have the opening on your shell holder pointing away from you.
 
joe-nwt said:
That is not entirely true. While I have never had a primer go off when pushing them out with a die(100's and I'm not always gentle) I have had a couple go off while priming. Depending on the circumstances, bits of the primer itself can become shrapnel. And it can break skin. Hence all the recommendations to be wearing safety glasses.
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Yeah, that's why I said to wear your safety gear. Goggles, gloves, and clothes and nothing is going to hurt you. Even just goggles is enough really, at worst a primer is going to nick your skin.
 
I get a fair bit of live primed brass from the range or donated by club members. I am recycling for a club and run into this all the time. I use a decapping die and slow gentle pressure. Like everyone else says, it takes a sharp strike to set off a primer and since the case is up inside a steel cylinder it is pretty safe. I have done hundreds of them and no bang yet. I burn the primers in a woodstove before throwing them in the recycling bucket afterwards.
 
CyaN1de said:
Put it through your resizing die and just push the primer out.

No need to bother with oil/wd40/water/soking for a week/flying it to outer space etc.
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pdubois64 said:
I got a couple primers in upside down. I don't think I want to push those out with my depriming die:eek:
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sunray said:
"...don't think I want to push those out with my depriming die..." No big deal. Just push it out, slowly. Same thing if the primer is in sideways. No need to do anything else.
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Ganderite said:
Use your decapping die. No big deal.

Shock is what set off a primer. Slow presure, with in reason, is no big deal.

I get one in sideays from time to time. When i feel the resitance I stop and i just flick it out with a small screwdriver.
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Just deprime as normal, just go a little slower. You will not light the primer.
 
Andy said:
Yes, the "It's Dangerous!" gang never fails to throw the "water, WD-40 or oil" solution out there.

I always follow the same process - either a F/L Sizing Die, or my Lee Universal deprimer.

I did 50 two weeks ago. Bought them as handloads and thought I'd break them down to components and toss the powder. I've done probably 100 before that, in smaller groups (lots of ones and twos).

Zero have gone off.

If one ever did, I know excatly what would happen, because I've had two go off while priming with a Lee Loader. Lost half my face and the house came down! Actually, no, it went "bang" and I carried on.
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:D Jammed a few primers in sideways, they get all squished up and mashed :mad: I just use the deprimer and push them out.

Lately with the 450-577 having a base too big for my hand primer I find using my press seems to jam one up sideways and you cant see it.

With my hand primer you can easily check the primer before you stuff it in.
 
chuck the bad primed cases and move forward, unless its a wierd limited amount of brass.

usually they pop right out with a pick.

as for the primers going in side ways. Make sure you are using the correct primer bar for the size of primer. You should have small pistol rifle and a large pistol.rifle one. Using a small rod in large primer will make them pop in sideways.

good luck.
 
Push it out or just load it and fire. I do this some times in my basement, no harm, just little noise.
 
Is there any record of a live primer going off while decapping it? I've never heard of it in my 40 plus years of reloading. Anyone...anyone?? Don't get your drawers in knot and just decap the suckers as some of us (older) reloaders have mentioned before :agree:
 
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