Whoops!

and another one for the wall of shame.

I share a reloading bench with my brother and sister's husband. anytime there is a booboo we put it on a little shelf we call the wall of shame... it's gotten so shameful that we're considering taking it down actually

Yep, it happens to the best of us on occasion. Even worse when you discover them as a FTF in the middle of a 30 rd magazine.:banghead:

Then, it kind of makes you pucker up after you pull the bullet, dump the powder & very gently push the live, upside down primer out of the case.

I have seen them in new factory ammo, and GI issue 5.56 during the Vietnam war.

Wall of shame?

Mmmmm?
No.

I'd just call it a lapse in QC at the reloading bench.

I can't ever remember priming a case upside down in 50 years though.
A few sideways, but they won't usually come out of the shell holder without you knowing all about it, and doing something 'special' to get it out to start over.

rc

So here's what you do--run that case into your universal decapper (you have one, right?) and very slowly press that primer back out. Wear your hearing and eye protection, just in case you set it off, but if you go slow and apply just enough pressure to push it out, the chances of that are very slim.

Now, turn it over and put it back in the right way. When you chamber it and pull the trigger, it'll go bang just like the others.

This is why we have bullet pullers... it happens from time to time.

had one the other day like this, but caught it as soon as i pressed it in as it felt weird... i just tossed it.

I have never had this happen before through my own practices, but I have had primed brass come like this.

New brass, with Federal primers, from someone I thought had their act together.. There were 3 in the 1000 I bought!

I've had a few do that to me. Maybe 1 per thousand on the lee primer tray when I started out.. Somehow one will slip by from time to time. I've always caught mine before it was a problem.

Because I prime on the press, I've seen a few of them.
There's no way to catch it til the round is finished (short of pulling every case & looking after it's primed).
But that kinda defeats the purpose of a progressive.

That's another reason I use MTM boxes.
When placed in the box, primer side up, it gives me another QC chance.

And it's why I use a hand primer. I raise the primer's ram enough to see the primer in the collar before placing a case into the shellholder. I can't get one in wrong if I visually verify it's turned right before pressing it into the pocket.

Me, no I have never done anything like that before, I don't know what you are talking about.....LOL

Yep. I've done that a time or three. Although some would advise against it, I put my safety glasses on and very gently popped it back out, turned her around and seated her. No prob.

I had a wall of shame for a while. It got too shameful.