Removing an inverted primer (Advice needed)

You're Good To Remove It...

Been reloading a lot of years, too. Had more than one inverted primer that needed to be removed from cases. Never had a problem, just relubing the case & running it [gently] thru the sizing die again to allow the decapping pin to remove it. ;)
 
The Cod Father said:
I have an article here where a primer was intentionally detonated under those circumstances and they figure the force was enough to bury the pieces fairly deeply into ones thigh.
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So, don't point the thing at your thigh as you're tapping it out. We don't need to make a mountain out of a molehill. Plenty of people have tapped/pushed out live primers over the years.
 
acrashb, I was only refering to the position one might be in when sitting at the bench. I dont mean to make a mountian out of a molehill, but lets face it, how big a deal is it to take a minute to drop a half a penny's worth of oil in the primer first? I will admit, I have decapped live primers before, even the ones that my old Lee Loadmaster would put in sideways, but there is no way that I would advise someone to do it (especially someone new to reloading) without rendering it inert first. The chances of detonation are slim, but they still do exist, and I would hate to tell someone to do it and have the wrong thing happen at the wrong time. Too many variables in life, I choose to remove the risks when I can, especially if it is so easy to do so.
 
I just run them into the die again, going slow. Never had a problem. As to those who say just put a drop of oil on it...sure, it's one extra precaution, but oil on a primer is not a guarantee that it won't fire.
 
Good golly molly, are we still talking about this!

One more "answer" then......

Put the damn thing in your rifle and fire it and then decap it ... clean the bolt face after.
 
EXTRA EXTRA read all about it
front page news story provided by reuters
feb 26/06......Story with pics
topic> Man tries to remove inverted primer

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get a piece of dowel as close to the sike of the neck I.D., fill case with water, put dowel in neck, and hit dowel with hammer, hydraulic pressure will push primer out.
 
Un-be-freakin-lievable..I havnt seen this much paranoia since the days of Alan Rock and Anne Maclellan, but to each his own..Even though I shake my head at how "serious" some people think this problem is, I find the entertainment value far outweighs some of the solutions offered....Like has been mentioned so many times before, just slowly apply even pressure on your decapping station until it makes contact with the primer, and continue to apply pressure and voila! A perfectly good primer comes forth with no danger whatsoever...Another potential crisis averted...Whew...Now we can all rest at night...
Cheers
dB:)

...if truth were known, he's probably already removed it long b4 now...
 
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Okay Okay, I can see I'm going to have to be serious about this. Get a big wack of half inch finishing nails..Get yourself a whole big wack of 22 HP shells..Now what you want to do is insert a finishing nail into a hollow point of a 22 shell..With the big bad primed cartridge up on a post 100 yards away with the mouth pointing toward you fire the pointed 22 round so as to go inside and knock the primer out.. Now the phrase"if at first you dont succeed try try again" really applies here..After about a 100 bucks worth of 22 shells and nails you may have got it....Man goes down stairs and has daughter take pic of him tapping out inverted LRM primer as he's done hundreds of times before in hopes of putting and end to this SSSSSHHHHHHHHIIIIIIIITTTTTTTT....YOU CANNOT GET HURT..CHRIST
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