Reloading question: what to do with badly seated primers

[rlewpolar]

Started reloading and have a few cases where the primer was not seated correctly (i.e. sticking out too far). Probably the primer pocket was not cleaned out enough, etc.

Obviously, I don't want to add powder and a bullet. I don't want to just chuck this case with a live primer in the garbage. I'm not sure I want to wrestle this live primer out of the case.

Any advice on how to proceed here? Working with primers makes me a little uncomfortable. Other than these few duds, the reloading thing has gone smoothly and I find it pretty enjoyable.


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[JDay]

Seat it again.

[Divernhunter]

Seat it again or just run it thru the resizer die and punch it out. It will be fine and even if it pops nothing bad will happen.

You would avoid this if you hand prime ---IF you are using a single stage/turret press and end up with more accurate ammo if it is rifle ammo.

[bohoki]

yea its a close call if its not quite there i will try to squish it harder or i will pop it out with the decapper clean the pocket and put a different one in if the first primer looks ok i will try putting it in a different case probably will pick out a remington primers always slide in remington cases

[toby]

Wear safety glasses and re seat.

[alfred1222]

Pop it out

[repomanNWP]

If I have any doubts I tend to just FL resize and discard the primer.. its a few pennies, don't worry about it. I recently got a Dillon 600 Super Swager and its worth every penny to make seating primers so easy, especially if you pick up mixed range brass.

[RandyD]

If you want to deactivate the primer, prior to removing it, spray some WD-40 on the primer.

I would recommend finding out why, these primers are improperly seated. Is is due to the primer, the case, a dirty primer pocket.

[Fishslayer]

Seat it again.

This. Go slow, no problem. I know that you are always wearing eye protection anyway, right?

[bazineta]

Ear protection ain't such a bad idea either, if you're seating a tight one, or decapping a live one.

[Guns R Tools]

Was it crimped primer pocket?

You can deprime live primer, just go slow with eye and ear on.

[rlewpolar]

Reloading question: what to do with badly seated primers

I am using a single stage press and hand priming. Also, I clean the primer pocket with a hand tool that supposedly removes crimping. I've reloaded 600 rounds so far and this has only happened twice so I suspect it's the cases themselves. I've tried to squeeze hard with the hand priming tool but after a fair amount of pressure, am willing to accept it's just the case and get rid of it. Think I will just deprime it with the resizing die. Wasn't sure if this was safe to do with a live primer. Thanks for the responses!


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[Eljay]

That seems reasonable. If it's not going in, give it a shot but don't force it, and if it doesn't go in just deprime and declare it to be a bad case.

[GW]

If you're nervous about it, oull the bullet & powder if loaded then drop the case in water & leave it overnight
Decap the next day, let case dry and re-use.

[RandyD]

If worried about removing a live primer, another option is to discard the case and primer. Neither of them are expensive.