Unfired primer

[okielectrician]

Took my new BC out to the range a couple of weeks ago with a box of rem 405 19 out of 20 did just fine but theres that one that would not fire,tried three times,left a nice dimple but no boom.
I know i can get a kinetic puller for the removal of the bullet and powder but what about removing the primer.I wouldnt think you would just deprime in the press like normal spent primers.
If this had been addressed before I missed it.
Newbie needs some help.

[Ladobe]

...I wouldnt think you would just deprime in the press like normal spent primers.

I would, I have and I will again.

[blhof]

In 20 years of reloading, I have deprimed many dud primers and have never had any go off.  I did have a friend that was depriming a large batch of fired rounds and had a primer blow.  His was a primed shell that had fallen into his can of fired and tumbled shells, so he didn't look before dropping the handle on the press.  After hearing this; I was a little more careful with depriming dud rounds.  I did have my rotary press put in a primer backwards(my fault loasding it).  I very gently pushed it out with the press, expecting it to go off and nothing happened, there was a very small indention in the primer, but I flipped it over and reprimed the shell and test fired the primered shell with a healthy report. A little care and you should have no problem.  Primers are made to work with a sharp rap.

[irold]

I agree with everything .  if ya want to really be sure , drip a drop of hoppes into the casing on the primer....that will kill it for sure, or so I've been told.  Any time I get a primer mix-up....not sure whether its mag or not, I dump them into a little plastic bottle of WD 40.... just being cautious.   regards

[Graybeard]

...I wouldnt think you would just deprime in the press like normal spent primers.

I would, I have and I will again.

I've probably not done that more than a couple thousand times. So far never had one go off yet. The ONLY primer detonation I've ever had during reloading was a shotshell primer in a MEC press when a maganum lead shot pellet had fallen into the primer seater without me noticing. Now that got my attention but no harm was done.

[woodchukhntr]

I never had a live primer go off when depriming duds or cartridges that wouldn't enter the chamber and had to be resized.  I did have one or 2 primers detonate when priming cases.  I think that they didn't enter the primer pocket and hung up and were squashed against the edge of the pocket.  Just to be safe always wera safety glasses!