Old Navy
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....an upside down primer of all things. I hate to throw away a new case but I did and it still hurts.
What have others done??
What have others done??
Oops a first in 40 years of reloading.....
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gunsmith11
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I just punch it out and re prime
bmcgilvray
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Me too. One hasn't popped yet.
S&WIowegan
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Upside down primers
I generally load on progressive presses and get an occasional flipped primer on a finished round. I am way to tight to throw that round away. I use a Quinetics to remove the bullet, salvage the powder and then punch the bad primer out. I do throw that primer away.
I have never had a primer go bang doing this but I ALWAYS wear safety glasses. If you're really nervous doing it turn your face away and put muffs on.
I generally load on progressive presses and get an occasional flipped primer on a finished round. I am way to tight to throw that round away. I use a Quinetics to remove the bullet, salvage the powder and then punch the bad primer out. I do throw that primer away.
I have never had a primer go bang doing this but I ALWAYS wear safety glasses. If you're really nervous doing it turn your face away and put muffs on.
OP
Old Navy
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I use a progressive press, but generally use a hand primmer just to be able to do that part done while watching the tube.
I will usually do a couple hundred like this and been doing it since before the wife and I got married. When I bought the Dillon couple years ago I just never liked the primmer feed set up and took it off and went back to the old Lee had primer.
This was not a loaded case as yet, just a case with the primer was all. It had been loaded a couple times anyway and the powder feeder was half full of powder and I just tossed it out. But I was sitting here and wondering what others did when they did that. You know a saturday and nothing to do but try to keep the grandsons from wrecking the house.
oldRoger
US Veteran
I too must admit to an occasional lapse of this kind. I have removed many; I do cover the press with an old towel and wear safety glasses. I push slow and steady and never have had a bang.
OP
Old Navy
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Well I guess if I ever do another I will remember this, but I doubt it will.
Now watch after saying this I will do one this week two or three times.
Don't feel too bad. As a range officer I opened up a lot of ammo straight out of the factory case/box and would occasionally come up with that same thing. I kept them for a collection and would tell officers that there was nothing that guaranteed that factory ammo was perfect out of the box--inspect it.
As I recall, however, this was pretty much limited to .38 Spl. and .357 Magnum ammo, and included a bullet upside down in the case now and then. But I don't think that any of the 9mm or .45 ACP ammo ever had these faults. Possibly because of better quality control (and higher cost).
I had the embarassment of sending my daughter off to Gunsite some years back with her Glock 19 and 2K of my handloads. Sure enough, she had a failure to fire and an upside-down primer. AND primed on an RCBS bench primer at that.
As I recall, however, this was pretty much limited to .38 Spl. and .357 Magnum ammo, and included a bullet upside down in the case now and then. But I don't think that any of the 9mm or .45 ACP ammo ever had these faults. Possibly because of better quality control (and higher cost).
I had the embarassment of sending my daughter off to Gunsite some years back with her Glock 19 and 2K of my handloads. Sure enough, she had a failure to fire and an upside-down primer. AND primed on an RCBS bench primer at that.
I've had the flipped primer happen to me before. I read somewhere that if you put a drop of oil or water on the primer it ruins the priming compound and makes it a dud. I was still very careful when I pushed it back out.
Jeff423
US Veteran
Go slow and pop it out. I done several and reused them - no FTF's.
Jeff
Jeff
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Old Navy
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What caused me to go back to my hand primer was the failure of me or the primer feeder to work proper and I would have 2 or 3 out of every 50 w/o a primmer that would make me mad because the powder ended up in the spare room carpet and that is not a cool thing to be doing.
Man speaking of reloading I need to prime some cases tomorrow for 10 mm and 357 and maybe load that 100 bag of 210 gr Winchester ST/JHP sitting on the bench.
Man speaking of reloading I need to prime some cases tomorrow for 10 mm and 357 and maybe load that 100 bag of 210 gr Winchester ST/JHP sitting on the bench.
I have also and just ran them through the sizing/deprimer die and caught the little bugger. Flipped it over and loaded it up.
I do not care so much about the primer or the case but I Must have a even 50 or 100 loaded rounds.
Spotteddog
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I'd just have Corrine stand behind me with her dainty fingers in my ears while I de-prime it.
LouisianaMan
Member
I've never had that problem with .38 or .45, but often suffered thru it with .32's. I gently decap & have never had a problem. For non-defense ammo, I re-use them and haven't had a FTF.
I just put it back in the press and slowly push it out with the decapping pin. Never blew one in 50 yrs of this stuff. Lots of rounds.
sonny
RV4driver
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I agree. Just press it out slowly and no problems.
Jeff
Jeff
