nettlle
Contributing Member
I have done a few. As has been said go slow. I didn't try reusing them.
The primers can be re-seated if removal is done carefully and the primer pockets are not too loose.I've removed with the Lee Universal decapping die. Easy does it. Never tried reusing them
I haven’t had an issue with mine. I wear eye protection while reloading anyway, but never had an issue. Occasionally a .380 will make it through the 9mm process and needs to be broken down so it just hits the sizing station. If anything the spring provides a buffer. Primers are pretty hard to set off.I wouldn't try de-capping them with the Dillon spring loaded sizing die.
I've removed lots of live primers and reused them
Lee Universal decapping die.
500?I have had to take apart 500 in one sitting.
I go slower than I would decapping a spent primer but not like I’m defusing a bomb or something.
I also use the Lee Universal decapping die.
Someone gave me a bunch of 45 ACP brass so I primed 500 cases and started loading.500?
Used to have my ex-wife decap live primers for me--encouraged her to move at a brisk pace and get up real close so she could see and hear how it's going.
(That's a bad joke. I've been happily married to the same woman for 46 years this coming Wednesday.)
Interesting. That’s quite an effort. But better than 500 hammer whacks pulling bullets!Someone gave me a bunch of 45 ACP brass so I primed 500 cases and started loading.
After the first 50 were loaded I started running them through the case gauge because I store them in 50 round MTM boxes.
I found 4 pieces that split so I didn’t take any chances and scrapped the whole lot of brass.
"Never attempt to deprime live primers – eventually one will go off. When it does it will detonate the others in the spent primer cup. Depriming live primers is the single most dangerous thing you can do in reloading and can cause grave injury or death."
Quoted from Dillon’s manual.
It didn't say it would detonate spent primers it. It said that "it will detonate the others in the spent primer cup" <emphasis mine>That makes no sense at all. How does a live primer detonate spent primers? Maybe Dillon says this because theirs is a fully progressive press and it could detonate live primers, not spent primers. Still find it had to believe, and I'll keep removing them when necessary.
That sounds like the kind of warning that is the result of a really dumb mistake. The kind that should never happen but does."Never attempt to deprime live primers – eventually one will go off. When it does it will detonate the others in the spent primer cup. Depriming live primers is the single most dangerous thing you can do in reloading and can cause grave injury or death."
Quoted from Dillon’s manual.