[Smokey Joe]

Crusty FN--Having removed--carefully--the live primers from one set of cases, I have experimentally reseated the same primers in other cases, loaded those cases, and fired them in a firearm normally.

The primers don't detonate when you punch them out slowly--they are set off by percussion, not by slow pressure.

The primers seated a little more easily than usual, the second time around.

The reseated primers all fired, 100%, and the rounds appeared to behave in all ways completely normally. Same POI even, as similar rounds but with brand new primers.

However, I for one feel funny about reusing primers. I CERTAINLY would not use rounds with 2nd hand primers for SD, and having gone that far, I wouldn't want to trust them to go bang when the Jordan Buck is in my cross-hairs, nor for getting X's instead of 10's in competition. (Oh, all right, 8's instead of 7's!) It just seems too much like handing Mr. Murphy an engraved invitation to the party.

I would re-use primers at extreme need. Not in any other instance.