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[brtelec]

It scares the hell out of me to use a decapping pin on a once struck or unfired primer. Water works wonders for taking all the risk out of decapping.

[earl39]

It scares the hell out of me to use a decapping pin on a once struck or unfired primer. Water works wonders for taking all the risk out of decapping.

Had to test this out before i replied. I used a wolf large magnum and a Remington 9 1/2 primer for this test. loaded the wolf primer in a piece of brass then filled it up with water and allowed it to sit for 6 minutes. At the same time i put the Remington primer in a bottle cap and filled the cap with water completely covering it anvil up to ensure no air pocket was protecting the primer compound. After 6 minutes i emptied the water out of the brass and shook it out then fired it. Surprise, surprise, surprise the primer fired. Then removed the primer and took the one covered with water (9 minutes under water) and put in the same brass and .......wait for it............BANG it also went off. I don't know how long it would take for water to kill a primer but it is by no means put water on it and it is dead. Now removing them hydraulically may be a way to remove them but they could still go off. Depending on how you do it the sudden impact of the water could and i say COULD cause the primer to go off. That said i don't know of any way to remove a primer that has not fired and say there is no way for it to go off, just that slow and easy is safer than fast and hard. So water does not take all the risk out.