January 15, 2012, 04:54 PM | #1 |
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Backwards primer
I was shooting in a mach a week or so ago and one time, I pulled the trigger, no boom, just a click. I checked the round after the course and found I had seated the primer in backwards! I just wondering, is there any way to get the primer out? Id think that trying to de-prime with conventional methods would cause a "bang" and I don’t want that! Its only 1 round, so Im not too worried about scrapping it, but I was curious if there was any way to get the live primer out? Also, I have since increased my diligence of checking my loaded runs before they go in the box!
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January 15, 2012, 04:57 PM | #2 |
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I have never had a problem depriming a backwards primer. I'm not going to a speed record when I do it though .
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Same here. Pull the bullet then deprime slowly.
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January 15, 2012, 05:54 PM | #4 |
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^What they said. Wear safety glasses.
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January 15, 2012, 05:57 PM | #5 |
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Another trick I have read on here is to drape a towel over the press as you do it slowly to slow/stop metal projectiles from blasting in every direction -IF- it should detonate.
I've also had to deprime these a couple times... no struggle with it. No "pop" either.
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I, also have deprimed a few backwards ones. Go slowly, gently, using "feel".
Should be a non-event. As mentioned before, take all safety precautions for eyes, ears, digits, etc, just in case Murphy's around.
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Primer is in backwards right? Put a drop of WD40 on it, pull the bullet, decap at whatever speed you wish and throw the primer in the garbage.
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January 15, 2012, 06:03 PM | #8 |
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I have done that, but not often. Slowly and gently ... safety glasses and you should have no problems.
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If the primer goes off it's not going to blow your arm off. All it will do is make a pop. Just put it in your press and deprime like you always do. I drop them on the floor in the reloading room all the time and some go off when the wife vaccuum's and nothing happens. Just dont try to prime one after you install powder and bullet or you may get hurt.
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if your that worried about it you could render the primer inert by putting a drop of oil in it and letting it sit for a bit before depriming it. I would still use caution when depriming though.
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Don't count on oil to deactivate it.
Put on your safety glasses and use an inertia bullet bullet to remove the bullet making sure the primer isn't pointed at anything important while swinging the thing. (I'd just go outside and bang it on something.) Once the bullet and powder is out run the case slowly through your sizing or universal depriming die. Save the primer if you want to reuse for range/practice ammo as long as the anvil is still in it. Or just toss the whole thing in the dud bucket at the range...
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Indeed, oil probably will not deactivate the primer. If you think about how primers work then you will understand that there is little to no danger decapping a live primer.
When a gun fires the cartridge, the firing pin is hit with a sudden and fast blow which transmits a sudden and fast blow to the primer which sets it off. Make no sudden or fast movements with the firing pin in your decapping die (sic) and it will not set off the primer. Nice and easy. |
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What Edward says is true. However WD40 WILL kill primers. Especially if dripped into an open primer.
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toss the round to the defective ammo bucket ???
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January 15, 2012, 09:22 PM | #15 |
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Do you know how much that bullet and brass is worth????
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Its called a liquid safing fluid and though I've never used it on a primer, they do work.
But really it is a primer after all. Don't have any bodily object right below your brass and you are fine if it goes off or not.
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I've done this twice in 4 years of reloading a lot of rounds. Neither made it off the reloading bench as I check each round before they go into the ammo box.
I let my mother-in-law deprime them. |
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When this happens to me, I slowly/carefully remove the primer, turn it around and reuse it. No big deal.
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take the precautions everyone has listed and go slow. I wouldn't think it would go off not being set in a pocket to hold the anvil. Kinda like if you set one high and it won't go bang.
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This isn't the one I was looking for but it's basically the same result.
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http://www.predatormastersforums.com/killprimers.shtml
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Pushing the anvil into the cup makes a primer sensitive.
I would imagine a primer loaded backwards would have the anvil pushed into the cup very firmly and would be ultra sensative. Be careful and go slow. It is a primer not a nuke. |
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easy decision
For me, it's an easy decision. It's ONE round. WD-40 it, and discard. Murphy's Law is alive and well. There's things worth taking chances on and there are those that are not worth it. IMO, this falls into the latter category. Good luck to you, regardless of which you do.
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by the way
By the way, maybe I'm crazy, but what I do is put all my new live rounds in plastic boxes (Berry's Bullets makes GREAT boxes!), and visually inspect them all, one by one, as I am human and have made the same error as you (backwards primer).
Then, I take a blue Sharpie pen and run it over all the backs of the rounds...it helps me quickly determine which are mine at the range when I'm picking them up! The ink comes off when I polish them before reloading, but it's easy to do again. |
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