Unspent primers

I will be the one to say "It's not worth it."

It is safer to kill the primer before attempting to de-prime the case. Then use a new primer.
 
I detonated a primer while pushing one out of a 308 case once. It buggered the de-capping pin and scared the crap out of me, but that was all.
 
Ive deprimed about 100 pieces of brass that were of no use to me this spring and none of them blew up. Ive already re-used some of those primers with no ill effects but as mentioned I would use them at the range not during a hunting trip .
 
By what way are they "messed up"? If it is just a powder charge or bullet combo that is wrong, you don't need to push the primer out you can just reuse the cases as is.

I would also give a vote to the "it's not worth it" cause. For about $3.50/100 I wouldn't risk the "soiled" pants on that....
 
I think the case is to long so if they need to be trimed I need to take the primers out since I use the Lee trimer. These rounds won't chamber in my gun and I am leanning towards it being a case length issue. If you have any other thought on why they won't chamber I am all ears. For those that might have some thoughts on this I will also mention that the cartridge is a 30-06 shooting a Tikka T-3 with Remington Bronze Point bullets. The cases were full lenght sized but not trimmed.
 
Check to see if the cases you pulled the bullets from will chamber. May have been a bullet seating depth issue.

Check to make sure you are full length sizing them properly. Your press should cam over on the size die, I'm assuming not carbide dies.

I pulled 50 rounds that I thought were not resized enough, (neck sized) but it turned out the bullets were seated too long, all I had to do was reseat all the bullets, of course I learned that after I pulled them all.
 
Budweiser360 said:
By what way are they "messed up"? If it is just a powder charge or bullet combo that is wrong, you don't need to push the primer out you can just reuse the cases as is.

I would also give a vote to the "it's not worth it" cause. For about $3.50/100 I wouldn't risk the "soiled" pants on that....
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Well it's not only the $3.50/100 for the primers, it's all the time spent messing around with oils and cleaning cases after oiling.

And what if you only have 1 bad primer? If you deactivate it and replace it with one from a new box of 100, there's only 99 left. Surely you know the mayhem caused at the reloading bench by an unequal amount of primers in the box.:eek: Next thing you know you have a box of bullets with 1 left in it! Although not proven, it is suspected that these types of events can even cause the earth to wobble on it's axis! Really!

So it's far better to just don your safety glasses, and gently push them out. And on the off chance one does go off, it will take you a few seconds to realize what happened. Why soil your pants then?:confused:;)
 
Just pop it out and reuse it for plinking loads, safety gear on of course. No need for an EOD team.
 
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