Thread: Decapping live primers

Originally Posted by Kiwiman

Hi all, I've brought a handful of cases to reload but they look like they've been sitting for a while, gone all dark and some tarnishing inside the neck, I want to put them in my tumbler and resize them but they have been primed, is it safe to decap them?

When I had to remove live primers in the past, I filled the cases with water to kill the primer, then tip the water out and decap them as per usual.


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