Primer question

I have had this happen more often than I care to admit. I've just decapped the casing VERY slowly and wore safety glasses and yes, even a long sleeve shirt and gloves. I'm sure that makes me sound like a sissy, but I don't like the sight of my own blood. lol
 
If I am going to take the time to deprime live primers, it is because I intend to reuse them; otherwise, as mentioned, just toss it in the trash
 
If I am going to take the time to deprime live primers, it is because I intend to reuse them; otherwise, as mentioned, just toss it in the trash
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On that day I received a call from a range, they called to ask about Remington ammo. I had to day, "I do not know but Remington has their phone number the box; call them". That afternoon 15 fired and 5 failed to fire rounds show up with no box and no information on the new rifle owner.

Typing slower: The proud owner of the new rifle made two attempts at busting the primers, after that the 5 failed to fire rounds were offered to any shooter with a 30/06. A wild guestimate would be 5 rifle, for those that can count that would be a minimum of 7 attempts to fire them if the 5 shooters with the 30/06 rifles only made 1 attempt.

The last thing I did was remove the primers ;carefully' and then reinstall them in the case they were removed from. I chambered the 5 failed to fire cases in one of my rifles with a killer firing pin. It was noisy but they all fired one after the other.

I did not find a case that was shortened from the shoulder to the case head from all of the pounding of the 7 firing pin strikes. After busting the primers I did not find the case shortened because of my killer firing pin and the busting of the primer did not shorten the case etc.

F. Guffey
 
So you saved your self maybe 3 bucks over the "decades" (from reusing already-seated primers)
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Probably not even that much :D

Yeah Metal god; I know. It's an OCD thing. Has nothing to do with money. If I prime 100 cases and then discover a case mouth split, I don't want to load a batch of 99 rounds. Nor do I want to take a fresh primer out of a new box (which would mean loading 99 later). So I pause my process to de-prime and then re-prime another piece of brass. It works for me.
 
F. Guffey said:
I will not say I wore out my Lee auto primers because I still have them; I did not agree with Lee when it came to Federal primers. When installing primers with my Lee equipment I do not double clutch the handle.
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??? Please explain.

I know what double clutching is in a car. I've been using a Lee (original) Auto-Prime since I started reloading. I've read the instructions, and I don't recall any reference to "double clutching."
 
Pulled lots of bullets. Cases,with primers, spent or live, tossed in same batch for cleaning.

Never, ever paid attention when loading, spent or live. Still trying to get a detonation.
 
I can deal with the loss or "expense" of a primer that didn't make it in to ammunition but what I cannot accept is throwing explosive little buttons in to the trash that have the potential of starting a fire inside a garbage truck. So no, I don't throw them in the trash and I haven't done that even once since I started in 1988.
 
I can deal with the loss or "expense" of a primer that didn't make it in to ammunition but what I cannot accept is throwing explosive little buttons in to the trash that have the potential of starting a fire inside a garbage truck. So no, I don't throw them in the trash and I haven't done that even once since I started in 1988.
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I have a dedicated plastic jar( small ) that I throw all my live primers in and fill it with WD-40 to kill them .
 
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