Reusing primers??

[bozo699]

Why are you taking apart large numbers primed cases in the first place. I have been reloading for 50 years and cannot remember ever depriming an unfired case.

WOW! I don't make it a standard practice, but it happens.

Just this week, I deprimed 100 rounds of new brass I am selling. Buyer uses a different primer, and now I can ship them via USPS instead of UPS ground.

A few years ago I had a Winchester LRP fail at the rolled edge. Winchester bought back all I had, and paid to have my bolt face repaired. Knocked out all the Winchester primers that were in brass

And many other reasons.

^^^^^^
What Josh said….. WOW!…
In 50 years of reloading you never found a single time you needed to decap a case?…
You have a 100% success rate that’s impressive, you never bought any primed cases you wanted different primers in or anything huh?
Wayne

 

[Webster]

^^^^^^
What Josh said….. WOW!…
In 50 years of reloading you never found a single time you needed to decap a case?…
You have a 100% success rate that’s impressive, you never bought any primed cases you wanted different primers in or anything huh?
Wayne

OK I'll correct it. I remember popping off a couple primers in my rifle to get rid off them. I have a collet bullet puller that I probably used 10 times in 50 years. I'm not the smartest guy in town but I worked for a very large co. and upper management recognized me for my ability to perform failure analysis. I solved a few big problems quickly that teams of engineers couldn't solve and they were all 10 times smarter than I was.

 

[Dimner]

I usually stay out of these threads...but oh well.

I've deprimed hundreds if not near a thousand live primers. Both small and large rifle. Never once have I had a problem. All using the lee decapping die. I save the live primers for sighters and plinking rounds. Never once have I had a problem with depriming or ignition when reused.

When the anvil falls out, I just press it back in and use the primer.

 

[Dimner]

Why are you taking apart large numbers primed cases in the first place. I have been reloading for 50 years and cannot remember ever depriming an unfired case.

I can answer this.

I dont have a range in my backyard. Work and other obligations limit my range time. So I'll often make up loads to shoot at the range and anticipate the results and make up two smaller sets of loads anticipating what the next step will be. With this method, I get more results, but I also leave the range with more unused live handloads than a normal shooter would have.

On addition, when rifles get sold or traded, any existing handloads are disassembles for components.

 

[MisterHelix]

Which brings up the next question: How long will you spend looking for a dropped primer?
One minute?
5?
10?

5 seconds. Must be time to sweep.

 

[JFrank]

I’ve never tried to reuse primers, for me, they take a one way ride.

 

[shb]

Why are you taking apart large numbers primed cases in the first place. I have been reloading for 50 years and cannot remember ever depriming an unfired case.

You never bought a rifle that came with a bunch of extras?

I got like 250 - 17 rem reloads with the popular old rem 25gr hp's


Now I got to take them apart cause you can't sell non factory ammo on any of these message boards.

I'm lazy though, might just take them to a gun show.

 

[LHSmith]

I've punched out hundreds of primers and never had a FTF. One caveat is I won't use them for a match or tuning sessions. Why I even use those notorious inertia bullet pullers to disassemble leftover match rounds on a regular basis.