Partial Seated Primers

[TheNordwand]

I've been teaching my son and daughter reloading and have ended up with a batch of partially seated primers in their cases. What are my options? Throw them away? Or, is there a way to remove live primers?

Thanks in Advance.

[Matt Cheely]

What type of press? In my Dillon 550 or 650 you can just put the round back in the seating station and reseat the primer.

[Rocket35]

I know they don't recommend reseating live primers, but I have done it many times before with good results.

[Flexmoney]

Risk vs. reward?

I put them in a container and get around to pulling the bullets every year or two.

[Front Man]

I have done it before with a handheld priming tool.

I don't remember why I thought it would be safer that way; maybe I did it outdoors.

My 550 priming system has never lit off a live primer.

However I don't recommend doing it!

FM

[BritinUSA]

Safest way is to pull the bullet and ditch the powder, then reseat the primer, put the powder back in a reseat the bullet.

Doing it with powder and bullet in place can be done but there is a risk; It's the sort of thing that will only happen once in your life, but then only because it will scare the living daylights out of you so much that you never, ever, ever want to risk it again.

[larry cazes]

It's the sort of thing that will only happen once in your life, but then only because it will scare the living daylights out of you so much that you never, ever, ever want to risk it again.

Not to mention serious injury from the flying shrapnel should a round go off.

[werewolf45auto]

I vote to pull them as it's what I call peace of mind. I have many bullets, powders, primers, brass, but only one life.

[Lee King]

Teach the kids to use the puller. It's much fun banging on a block of wood on purpose!!

[JThompson]

Teach the right... pull the bullet. The last thing you want to see is... "well dad did it."

[SA Friday]

I remember a thread about this from a while back and Guy Neil recommended to not use a "hammer" bullet puller on rounds with unseated primers. Something about it occasionally pops the primer off because it isn't seated all the way...

Going from my fuzzy old memory here...

[DougCarden]

If I remember correctly....Guy said NOT to reseat a primer on a live round, due to powder possible finding its way into the primer pocket and causing more of an interference fit than the live primer wants when seating......

My vote is pull the bullet and powder, then reseat if you need to.....FWIW....

Be safe,

DougC

[ChuckS]

What you have here is a great training aid. If they will function in your guns, mix them in with your training ammo. You will soon see how you are doing on that flinch This can also get you some malfunction drill practice! If they don't feed, well then welcome them to the more annoying side of reloading...

Later,

Chuck

[TheNordwand]

Great input. Thank you. We've a XL 650. We've pulled the bullets and dumped the powder. How do you reseat them with the press? How do you manage the primers being fed from underneath? Can the feeder be stopped or do I need to cycle until it is empty of primers?

Thanks

Nordwand

[ChuckS]

Great input. Thank you. We've a XL 650. We've pulled the bullets and dumped the powder. How do you reseat them with the press? How do you manage the primers being fed from underneath? Can the feeder be stopped or do I need to cycle until it is empty of primers?

Thanks

Nordwand

Set them aside till the next loading session and when the primer low buzzer goes off, do 11 more pulls and start hand feeding the cases into station 2.

Later,

Chuck

[Dave Gundry]

I just pull the bullets, dump the powder, and toss the brass back in and deprime it.

[ctgun]

I also have a 650 and what I will do is just remove the primer that is in the station and slide the case in (after the bullet has been pulled) and seat the primer. No need to cycle the handle and bring up new primers or to clear the system it is a little slower this way but not so bad.