Using primers pre-seated primers…

[762willdo]

a friend wants to give me “pulled” primers from brass he is shit canning…..what think you?
Good, bad, ugly?

 

[Bill Norris]

I did a test awhile back using some pulled small primers. My 30BR shot just as accurate with the pulled primers as the new ones. To each his own but I would use them.

 

[padom]

I've had zero issues using primers I deprimmed

 

[bloc]

I can't speak to your friend's methods, storage or the primer's condition. But I've removed primers from cartridges I've disassembled using a Lee Universal Priming tool and as far as I can tell they all worked fine.

 

[Ralph Littlefield]

Watch for missing anvils. No anvil, no bang.

 

[JimPag]

I've been tearing apart loaded rounds and reusing primers for the last 50 years and never had one single issue. Like Ralph said watch for missing anvils because will pop out.

 

[acloco]

TWO threads on this..........

Not sure how this happened

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[nmkid]

Since a seated primer has already been seated to a slight crush(?) would you just re-seat until you feel the primer bottom out?

 

[bloc]

Since a seated primer has already been seated to a slight crush(?) would you just re-seat until you feel the primer bottom out?

When I remove mine, I place them back in the box with "virgin" primers.

So when I reload, I don't know which is which.

AFAIK, the groups I shoot with primers from a tray with some recycled primers do not differ from the groups I shoot with primers from an "all virgin" tray.

I haven't run any kind of test because I don't see any need to.

 

[762willdo]

TWO threads on this..........

Not sure how this happened

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I deleted it not sure how that happened

 

[1shot]

I've had zero issues using primers I deprimmed

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This.

 

[SKWERLZ]

I’ve never noticed a difference reseated primers.

 

[Shooter13]

I’ve never noticed a difference reseated primers.

They will be easier to seat, that said I couldn't tell a difference in performance.

 

[M-61]

Since a seated primer has already been seated to a slight crush(?) would you just re-seat until you feel the primer bottom out?

Yes. I seat every primer until it bottoms out including 'once seated 'primers and have to date no problems.

 

[jds holler]

Since a seated primer has already been seated to a slight crush(?) would you just re-seat until you feel the primer bottom out?

Please explain if I'm wrong, but I think that if you're using the proper primer in the proper primer pocket, "slight crush" and "bottomed out" would be the same thing. jd

 

[D-4297]

When I re-insert a "pulled" primer , I tend to but just a little more pressure on it when seating . They've all gone bang , and like most everyone has said , I haven't noticed any difference on the target .

 

[Cemetery21]

No problems here. I had over 600 primers laying in a pan on a shelf for 10+ years. I pulled them when I bought primed brass from a friend and they were not my brand. I've used out of that pan for non-critical stuff ever since and not had a failure.

 

[Murray Brook]

I have used re-seated primers often ( espically these days) and never had a problem. Mind you I wouldn't use them on a grizzly hunt but for most other work I've had no problem.

 

[jds holler]

Ninety percent of my shooting is what I'd call "non critical" and I use the unknown large rifle for mellow cast bullet loads in my milsurp steel bangers. Mag or standard primers--make no difference.

Small rifle and pistol, pretty much the same. I frankly don't do much loading on the max end of things, and a magnum primer isn't gonna put me over the edge. If I was loading top end or for critical use/group stuff, I wouldn't use any unweighed powder, or unknown primer. jd