Removing live primers

[Franklin]

Got,a bunch of rounds that aren't sized to my gun. I want to pull the bullets and remove the primers which are still live. Can I just deprime them or do I need to soak them in water or sumpin?

 

[lx1x]

deprime slowly and reuse if you want.. done it before.

 

[ken792]

I just deprime slowly with a standard sizing die. I wear eye and ear protection just in case.

Another option is to remove the decapping pin from your case expander and resize without depriming.

 

[lx1x]

I just deprime slowly with a standard sizing die. I wear eye and ear protection just in case.

Another option is to remove the decapping pin from your case expander and resize without depriming.

done it that way too..

 

[herr.baer]

Another option is to remove the decapping pin from your case expander and resize without depriming.

This is what I do.

 

[GNLaFrance]

As above. If you're just resizing, you don't need to remove the primers. Even so, be careful and wear eye protection.

 

[BeRight]

Could always sell them

 

[Franklin]

Thanks guys. I didn't think of removing the recapping pin. They match the rest of my rounds anyway so this just saved me 10 bucks

 

[Franklin]

Could always sell them

I want to reuse the brass is the whole thing. These rounds were neck sizide for a specific gun so the don't fit in my chamber.

 

[BeRight]

aaah! Now I understand - sometimes I am not the sharpest tool in the shed.

 

[diesel-man]

Got,a bunch of rounds that aren't sized to my gun. I want to pull the bullets and remove the primers which are still live. Can I just deprime them or do I need to soak them in water or sumpin?

What everybody else already said...

But to answer your question...if you wanted to make the primers inert...squirt some WD40 inside and let them sit a day or so.

Another addition to what everybody else said:
If you have a decapping pin that the pin part has broken off...use it to "iron" out the neck (inside) as you resize the outside. (with the actual pin broke off...it won't push out your otherwise good primer).

 

[HappyCamper]

Chamber them and pull the trigger

What caliber are they? Would they feed in another firearm?

 

[Franklin]

22-250, they chambered in the dead guys gun that I got them from...well I got them from his widow.

 

[Biggfoot44]

Run the loaded rounds thru LEE Factory Crimp Die.

 

[pcfixer]

Yep, done all this too. Resize without decap pin, and removed primers slowly. I have had a primer installed upside down once or twice....

 

[byf43]

As others have said, remove the decapping pin from the sizing die, and re-size and neck expand, but do not deprime.

Reload as you normally would.

 

[Warpspasm]

I've always just run them through the sizer/decapper die again. So far, no problems.