When I deprime a live primer, I remove the spent primer catchment and the primer fall into an empty cardboard box. I also keep my press clean and ensure flammable materials are not spread all over the place. If a primer was to detonate, it would do so in the metal tube of the press below the shell holder. So I agree with Dillon in the respect, conditions can be present to cause catastrophic results, so the key is to isolate the live primer should it go off.
A rookie question about decapping live primers
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GeoDudeFlorida
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I use a Lee hand press. There’s only one place for the primer to go and it’s sealed, always.
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I can't believe this is still going.
The guy only had two ten cent primers.
The guy only had two ten cent primers.
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To make things more interesting I annealed a bunch of cases without realizing they were primed without any excitment.
Still a pertinent discussion about how to deprime a live primer. Get over it.
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The same content repeated over & over.
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