From the standpoint of saftey, Sharpshooters responce is correct. Remove the decapping pin then full legnth resize.
That said i have removed lots of live primers and reused them but usually just in practice ammo.
Thats also how i check primer pockets in the big cases. If it goes in easy and i can push it back out by hand the case goes in the trash.
No point to prepping cases only to then find loose primer pockets, so i check that first.
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