Cleaning Primed Cases?

[Don Fischer]

Originally Posted by springer99

Can you safely do it? Yes.

Would I do it? No.

If the cases are already primed, there's too much chance of having the media plug the flash hole.

Some time's I clean case's after sizing and some time's before. The primed after cases often have a bit of cob stuck in the flash hole. The case's I clean before sizing, always give me bits of cob when I re-size them and push the primer's out.

[hounddawg]

I have never put primer's in case's and then stored them away!

That is what cold and wet winter days are for Case prep !

[LBussy]

Okay so good news. I re-checked out the cases and got my calipers out. They are sized and just tarnished, not dirty. This was REALLY good news for me because right underneath that box was another one marked "1000" with more primed cases. I guess I felt froggy one weekend and primed them all.

[Tsquared]

Lee, thanks for staring this one. I did the same thing. I found 500 primed 223 in a plastic bag inside a plastic jar in my basement last Sunday. I sort of remember doing this about 1999 or 2000.

They all were the AN 11 headstamp so they are Lake City brass. I feel pretty sure I sized, trimmed, and reamed the primer pockets since they are primed. They all are the same length and fit my Wilson case gauge. I was planning to load them up and saw this thread.

I wonder what else I have squirreled away and forgotten about.

[LBussy]

Originally Posted by Tsquared

I wonder what else I have squirreled away and forgotten about.

It's an eye opener. If you are like me you sometimes don't make notes/labels as people here have recommended. You think "I'm going to use these, no way I'll forget what I did." ... and then you forget. I'm definitely going to try to improve there.

[jamaica]

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Originally Posted by RC20 View Post
If they are primed then they have to have been sized."


"Not in my house ... I often prime with a hand primer while watching TV."

If you are priming then they must have been decapped? with my dies the decapping pin is in the sizing die. So I would say, yes they likely were sized.
The tool that primes them does not decap them, the sizing die with the decapping rod does.

Are you a reloader or just a bullshipper?

[LBussy]

Originally Posted by jamaica

If you are priming then they must have been decapped? with my dies the decapping pin is in the sizing die. So I would say, yes they likely were sized.
The tool that primes them does not decap them, the sizing die with the decapping rod does.

Are you a reloader or just a bullshipper?

Sir, I'll afford you a courtesy and assume you mean the best by your comment, or that you did not mean to be offensive and I misunderstood you.

There's two things you are failing to consider here:

1. I may have purchased a large box of shells which were already deprimed and cleaned (this is the case here)
2. I could have used the Lee Universal Decapping Die which does not size.

Perhaps before impugning someone's character you might gather all the facts.