HiStandards
Active Member
CCI provided an article about primers in Gil Hebard's Pistol Shooter's Treasury. Three points relative to this discussion:
1. Live primers can be carefully decapped. (You always wear eye protection when reloading anyway, right?)
2. Decapped primers should not be reused because the priming compound pellet and anvil have already been seated and recapping could crush them.
3. Oil, WD-40, etc. do not reliably and permanently deactivate primers.
1. Live primers can be carefully decapped. (You always wear eye protection when reloading anyway, right?)
2. Decapped primers should not be reused because the priming compound pellet and anvil have already been seated and recapping could crush them.
3. Oil, WD-40, etc. do not reliably and permanently deactivate primers.