De-Priming brass with live primers

[craigers]

Not sure is this is the right place, sorry if it's not, I have a bunch of 30.06 rounds that I loaded and spaced trimming the cases. So they're jamming and the neck is getting crimped down in the barrel. My question is two fold. Is there a good way to get live primers out of the brass or if not how can I dispose of the brass with live primers.
Thanks.

[OldShooter32]

Punch them out like dead ones. I would remove the primer catcher if you have one and not let them accumulate, but I do it all the time with range duds.

[tylenol9999]

I deprimed few hundred live primers on my single stage, the only thing I did was to take it nice and slow. Obviously I wore safety glasses.

[Voo]

If I have to remove a live primer, I just do it really smooth..

It's up to you to decide if you want to reuse them. But punching them out is perfectly safe. Just wear safety glasses, de-prime smoothly, and you should be fine.

[llazyjs]

I've even had them go in backwards, anvil side first on occasion and I just put them in the press and punched them back out no problemo.

[craigers]

Thanks for the ideas. I do use a single stage RCBS so it sounds like its not a big deal just be careful and pay attention to safety.

[trailtundra]

I had a similar issue with 1k pull down brass I bought that had sealant on them. It was suggested to me that I put them in containers submerged in wd40. The primer compound basically dissolved and most of the primers actually fell apart. Wet tumbling made cleanup of the wd40 (and the bullet/primer sealant) easy. Definitely time consuming but I got the result I wanted.

[Divernhunter]

Forget the WD40 or anything else. Just punch them out. Smoothly do so to avoid one going off. If it goes off it will do nothing and hurt nothing.

Once when deprimeing 50bmg brass at 3:00AM I had one go off. It did startle me since everything was so quiet but that was all. 50BMG primers are quite a bit bigger than other common primers and still nothing bad happened.

[CK_32]

100% ok. I do it all the time. I actually just had the same issue you described above with my last batch. Needed more trimming.


If you do it carefully, and inspect it after its punched usually they are usually salvageable and load back in, and fire 100% fine. If your bend the primer cage or lose the primer clay ditch it. But if you go slow and smooth they stay in tact most of the time.

If you dispose of them I usually throw dead ones in the trash, live unusable ones in water then the trash. Not sure if this is mil spec, OCEA, PPE, Obama approved, but it's how I do it and safe and easy in my book. Good enough for government work as they say

[JMP]

Use a Redding Comp decapper. These have recessed decapping pins, so the outer housing fits flush with the shell plate before the pin KaBooms the primer.

[SMarquez]

If you are going to resize the cases just remove the de-priming pin and resize. I have done this a couple times. If you have the die set correctly nothing will change when you put the de-cap pin back in.
It sounds like you didn't set the shoulder back enough when you resized.