What to do with ammo fireformed in someones elses chamber?

[frakka]

Just use the decapping pin in the nk die. Go carefully and wear eye protection.

As I don't use the press to decap I was thinking the operation may be fraught with danger, ie a hammer tap versus the press arm.

[Dr G]

I have been told but cant confirm (others here might though) that a squirt of WD40 into the case will kill the primer allowing them to be deprimed as per usual. Of course you are then faced with cleaning the crap from the inside of the case.....

I have always fired them in the rifle (empty case with just the primer). It makes a pop and sometimes a flash from the muzzle but then its just deprime as usual.

Dr G

[Camel]

I have been told but cant confirm (others here might though) that a squirt of WD40 into the case will kill the primer allowing them to be deprimed as per usual. Of course you are then faced with cleaning the crap from the inside of the case.....

I have always fired them in the rifle (empty case with just the primer). It makes a pop and sometimes a flash from the muzzle but then its just deprime as usual.

Dr G

One of the reloading manuals I read had a test on how to kill primers. Almost all the things they tried failed in varying degrees. The only way to reliably kill them was to fire them as above. Its a long time since I read it so could be wrong about it being a reloading manual, Could be in one of the older shooting magazines. Am not gunna try and find it as I have hundreds of them going back to the early eightys.

[palla]

Had a great day at the range today, I reseated the "unknow" primers into empty cases & fired them off, sounded like a standard velocity .22LR going off. Then binned the "unknown fired" brass in the brass bin. All the stuff I got from the guy at work has now been disposed of, primers, powder & brass. I have kept the projectiles.

I reloaded my once fired brass as per the reloading manual, incrementing by 1gr from min to max, had 5 lots of 7 rounds to try. the 80gr soft points were much of a muchness with a resonable amount of improvement with one of the powder weights. then I tried the 58gr vmax, well what a difference when the optimum powder weight was reached, it was like flicking a switch. So 39.8gr of Reloader 15 gives me 1 inch group (outer edge to outer edge) at 100m, book says the 58gr pill should be doing 3400fps.

Was good fun getting the results, now to reload with the correct weights.

Just had a look at the 80gr softpoints, looks like 39.5gr RL15 gives the best results go figure?