JayCee49
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If you reuse a primer, it will probably be kind o' loose because you have to force them to a small degree into the primer pocket. A primer is four or five cents; maybe six. Why risk an FTF at a huge elk because you cheaped-out for six cents?
Your good done it beforeI pulled the decapper that way I don't have to put email back in.
I have always worried about this on my black powder loads. "Would a kernel of powder in the primer cause a non uniform firing"? I know it might sound crazy, but it was a question I had. A couple years ago at Quigley I got into a discussion with a group of old time shooters. One told me that he cut a wad from a newpaper and placed it at the bottom of the case before he loaded the powder. As most of us uses a wad over the powder, between the bullet – powder anyway, I just used my cutting punch on some old newspaper to make my over the flash hole wad. Now these are straight walled cases, not bottle neck, its not the hard to do. We all seem to have our "special ways" and I will admit to being a crazy old coot.FYI, for those who are very OCD about precise charge weights. I have pulled bullets, emptied powder and deprimed live primers to find a kernel of powder crushed into the primer. Even after forcefully tapping the case neck on the wood bench to get all the powder out I still find a kernel in nearly half the deprimed cases. When I'm nearing the end of my load development and need to use one of those cases i always deprime and use a fresh primer to make sure there are no kernels stuck to the primer. Why use an FX scale and weigh to the kernel if one may already be in the case?
I have already done that thanks for the helpTake the depriving pen out of your die, and start resizeing.
Just pull the decapping pin from your die and resize withpout decappingI was reloading my .204, but I didn't resize them properly. The bullets are falling into the case. So I already installed the new primers. So is it ok to use the deprimer to push them out, or will they go off. If I can deprime them can i reuse them . Thanks.
I was reloading my .204, but I didn't resize them properly. The bullets are falling into the case. So I already installed the new primers. So is it ok to use the deprimer to push them out, or will they go off. If I can deprime them can i reuse them . Thanks.
Did the same thing LOLForgot to prime them first. Glad I was using ball powder that time so I could see my mistake right then and there.