Upside Down Primer Removal

[Old Navy]

I have actually put a cartridge with an upside down primer in a contender during a match and fired the primer. Got lots of attention from everyone on the line!

Cool! I was the guy laying next to you.

 

[Old Navy]

Some of you can remember seating primers by driving the case down onto the primer with the old Lee hand reloading kit. Regular CCI back then never went off but quite a few mag primers would. It would blow the punch up a little and scare the hell out of me but that was all.

 

[Bc'z]

I just can’t leave it alone!… primers can be made inert!… I’ll get back to that in a minute. Primers are obviously very explosive! A whole tray of them I would not want to go off all at once on my bench but one primer? Extremely loud?…a .357 is loud! A .338-.378 with a brake is loud a primer is no louder than a little kids cap gun! Which I might add has been played with by literally millions of kids!… no safety glasses no hearing protection for decades!…When I worked at ATK they made thousands upon thousands of primers inert all the time soaked them in water for quite some time then they were ran through a grinder similar to what they use to shred up old car bodies except much smaller and occasionally one would still go off. So m61 and a few are correct as in if you were to spray it with wd-40 it would more than likely go off, if it sat for a week in it,.. probably not.
Wayne

Ever hit a dud fire cracker with a hammer?
Way back when, when we lived on Schofield Barracks we went around and collected all the blackcat's that hadn't gone off after the 4th of July....
Concrete colvert pipe and a hammer= defining!!
Yes I like my music loud, it's only way I can hear it

 

[divingin]

We have lived so long with nanny state mentality that common sense or thinking logically is in short supply. Poster #21 must be an old guy. I bet he can do long division with out a keyboard to punch.

I can do long division without electronic assistance. It takes a long time and gives me a headache, but I can do it.

 

[Richard Jones]

Can't tell you how many primers got flipped on my 550. Was loading 'lots' of ammo for 40 & 38 Super for USPSA, both used WSP's, since that what I had lots of. If I caught it quick, I'd punch it out with a decapping die, then reuse the primer. None ever failed to go off in the gun, none ever went off during the 'decapping' process. If I caught it when I was case gauging, it went into a box and later I would pull bullet & powder, decap, load again.

 

[BAT M 284]

Been there done that.decap pin slow

 

[M-61]

Penetrating oil of just plain oil should render the priming mixture inert. Then deprime with sizing die.

No guarantee that it’s inert at all.

 

[Coyotefurharvester]

My dad would go off when I was loading after 10pm at my desk in the bedroom. Never a primer, was actually fun loading with the Lee wack-a-mole set. I was 12, mom and dad must of trusted me. Never burned the house down with the wood burner tool, which I got at 8? Brother and I did more damage in the house with nerf basketball, lol.