Newbie question about disassembling and reassembling

[Divernhunter]

you do not need to remove the decap pin. The simple thing is to just raise the decap STEM up so it does not punch out the primer. You need the expander ball in there to resize the neck once you size it down.

I do not crimp any rifle rounds(except 45-70) and have never had a need for it. Do as you please but it make removing the bullet easier. I also use a collet bullet puller if I have many to take apart.
I use a hammer style if only a couple. Put a small piece if an ear plug in the bottom of ot and you will not deform the nose of lead tip bullets

Some of you make this far more difficult that it really is.

[baih777]

Not sure it matters but I always remove live primers gently.

Me too. And I wear a face mask or safety glasses.

[bigbossman]

When I've pulled apart loaded rounds, I never resized the brass. Just re-charged it properly and re-seated the bullet.

If the brass is a reject, I will salvage the live primer. They pop out very easily with minimal pressure. Just go slow and all is good.

[SharedShots]

OP, do you own any reloading manuals? If not I'd stop doing whatever it is you're doing and get some and read them cover to cover until you know yourself the best and safe reloading practices. No one giving you advice on saving powder or depriming live primers and then reusing them will be there if something goes really wrong.

You've walked away from a reloading session and going back and doing some of the things mentioned here goes against almost every safe reloading best practice there is.

You've been advised to take the ammo apart and put the powder back into the canister and hopefully its the same one it came out of. Then you've been advised to deprime cases with live primers and knowing you are a self admitted newbie where was the caution to make sure you don't have any powder anywhere near when you do that? Its a lot of assumptions that you know things you might not know and from your OP it seems you don't know some things you really should before doing any of those things.

I'm not ragging on you but reloading isn't a time to go with contradictory information from multiple sources you don't know and just wing it, you got to where you are through trial and error and safety is not a trial and error thing.

Take reusing powder. Can you say with absolute certainty that there is nothing in any of those cases that once put back into the container which is hopefully the exact same one it came out of that the entire container doesn't become contaminated? If you have two canisters of the same powder notice they have lot numbers? That is for a very good reason and if you put powder from one lot into another you just violated a cardinal safety practice. If something goes wrong the lot numbers are now invalid. Never put powder removed from ammo into a canister that has unused powder in it, is the risk worth the money? Yeah, some will say they always do it, will they be there if things go wrong or will it be bummer it happened to you?

Did you precisely document all your reloading sessions? Not a sticky but documented so you know exactly what you loaded? Having been reloading since the mid 70s I've seen rifles blown up, people hurt and all kinds of things because some new reloader didn't first learn the basics from renown sources and instead listened to anecdotal information that someone said.

If you've reloaded that much ammo that you need to disassemble then that right there should tell you that perhaps learning more before going full bore will save you time, money and risk.

Reloading can be fun, save you money and give you a lot of satisfaction but while there are plenty of people who just do things contrary to best and safe practice there are those who do the same and the result if a life changing event. Don't be that guy.