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[ADfields]

I believe gunpowder was being facetious there about re-uesing, it was a bit of Canadian humor. But with the current value of the loony and limited availability of components in Canada who knows.


You can kill them with Kroil or any oil but you run the risk of contaminating the next load in that brass. Water won't forever kill them but when wet they are dead.

They aren't dangerous though until the huge ones like BMG. I have set one off de-caping 30-06 in a rush, it went down the shoot and hit my knee. Startled the poo out of me for sure but the only pain was I jumped so hard I wrenched my back some. I'm a little less gorilla on the press arm now but it is safe to knock out normal primers live, BMG I'd chamber up in the rifle and pop first because they are like ten times the power.

 

[elkaholic]

Lots of good advice here and we have all made boo boo's reloading. This may actually have been a good lesson that will make you think about each and every step. What if you had charged a case with a full dose of 3031 instead of 4831, for example? Once I had two cans of powder too close by and mixed them when I returned the unused portion. STUPID! Of course I had to throw away nearly a pound of powder. Another thing I have found is never load when you have company standing around talking. This is a sure way to cause problems. J E had some really good advice.......Rich

 

[proload]

is it safe to de-cap live primers?

Primers are evil !!!! Be careful !!!!

http://www.longrangehunting.com/forums/f28/treatment-primer-explosion-wound-77445/index2.html#post544016

 

[joe0121]

I use CCI BR-2's and BR-4's and only Reload for .223, .308 and .300WM. I have had great luck with them and It makes it hard to mix up primers. I keep all the tools/components for a round organized together as well. So instead of a shelf for dies, Primers etc. I have a 223 shelf a 308 shelf and a 300 shelf.

 

[Lee Goodwin]

Reviving a thread...just for fun.

 

[bob4]

I had some time today to work on some 300 win mag brass. Got everything ready to the priming step. Cleanened off the bench of everything but priming tool and loading tray with 50 rounds of shiny brass. I reached into the cabinet and identified my Federal GM215 match primers and dumped half the box onto my hand primer. I shook them around and snapped the cover over them. I chucked the first round and squeezed twice and thought...HMMM that was a fairly loose pocket. After a a second shell was primed I decided that this would no doubt be the last loading of this batch of brass and continued on. After about 25 were primed I remembered that this is only the second loading of this brass. Now I was sure something was not quite right. My next thought was....Gee I wonder when they changed the color of these primers? they are not purple. One look at the box on the bench and I relised I just primed a bunch of 300 WM brass with GM155 Match pistol primers. Time to break out the decapper die. DOOH what a time for bad hand eye coordination. I am gonna have to put pistol primers on the other side of the cabinet.

Most of us have pulled a stunts like that before. Mine was once taking a tiny bit of 4831 left in a can and I just mix it in the next can. Unfortunately when I grabbed the next can of 4831 turned out to be H-1000. Tossed it all. No amount of money is worth a finger,face or rifle.

 

[JJMoody]

My last boo boo was loading increments at 80.3 80.6 80.9 , 90.2 90.5.... then wait a minnit.... what did I just do?
Pulled and reweighed messed up charges. Almost made a bad day

... punching numbers into a digital thrower/scale

 

[Lee Goodwin]

My last boo boo was loading increments at 80.3 80.6 80.9 , 90.2 90.5.... then wait a minnit.... what did I just do?
Pulled and reweighed messed up charges. Almost made a bad day

... punching numbers into a digital thrower/scale

Looking for an accuracy node in a rather large caliber...

 

[JJMoody]

Changing brass in 28 nosler
Nosler Brass was at 80.6
ADG has slightly higher capacity

 

[Calvin45]

I should also add that when decapping live primers that safety glasses should be used, and slow
steady pressure used instead of snapping the primer out (It could ignite).

Also if it worries you just drop the primed brass in a bucket of water and let stand over night. this should (Defuse) the primer making it safe to de cap.

I have de primed 50bmg and 20mm rounds and the primers are very powerful and you must
kill them with water or they may kill you.

J E CUSTOM

Slow and steady and not snappy seems to be the wise approach to the whole reloading process. Not something that should ever be done in a hurry or while distracted. The whole therapeutic benefit of handloading for me is in fact that it forces me to stop hurrying, as I'm so prone to doing for no good reason. There's a song about that..."I'm in a hurry to get things done, oh I rush and rush until life's no fun..."