hand depriming?

[mdram]

as i am looking for stuff for my kit, i see a hand deprimer
any use one?

[Klem]

No.

On the rare occasion I need to de-prime something I run it through a sizing or decapping die.

[DDRanch]

I use my press to decap primers, but I do prime by hand.

[A5BLASTER]

Yes. I'm useing the Frankford arsenal hand deprimer. I do not prime or deprime on my press.

[mdram]

Yes. I'm useing the Frankford arsenal hand deprimer. I do not prime or deprime on my press.

thats the one i was looking at. any issues with it?
better then on press?

[A5BLASTER]

thats the one i was looking at. any issues with it?
better then on press?

No issues at all. I prefer to keep my press simple and in cluttered so I removed all the priming and depriming parts, that and my press is for sizing brass and seating bullets.

I can deprime brass by hand much faster then on a press and it saves ware and tear on my press.

[mdram]

nice, might me part of my order then

[FLshooter]

I could never see the need for a hand deprimer. How could it save wear and tear on your press, when you have to resize? And since you’re resizing why not do it all in one step?
To each his own I guess.

[Klem]

What he said. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[A5BLASTER]

I could never see the need for a hand deprimer. How could it save wear and tear on your press, when you have to resize? And since you’re resizing why not do it all in one step?
To each his own I guess.

Well I will not put dirty brass in my dies and trying to clean brass with the dead primer still in the pocket is a stupid waist of time to me.

So I deprime with my hand tool before I put my cases in the walnut so they can get cleaned up before lubing and going in the sizing die.

So if I wanted to deprime on my press I would need a universal decapping die, so I wouldn't be putting dirty brass in my sizing die. I.E. less wear and tear on my press and less wear and tear on my dies.

It's what works for me. Not all that worried how others do it are what they think of my technique. 1000 ways to skin this cat.

[pinetreebbs]

No hand depriming, I use the cheapest Lee press to deprime all my empties in a dedicated depriming station that keeps my other presses much cleaner.

[mdram]

my main thought was this
sitting down watching tv while depriming
kinda like how many people prime off the press

[FLshooter]

Well I will not put dirty brass in my dies and trying to clean brass with the dead primer still in the pocket is a stupid waist of time to me.

So I deprime with my hand tool before I put my cases in the walnut so they can get cleaned up before lubing and going in the sizing die.

So if I wanted to deprime on my press I would need a universal decapping die, so I wouldn't be putting dirty brass in my sizing die. I.E. less wear and tear on my press and less wear and tear on my dies.

It's what works for me. Not all that worried how others do it are what they think of my technique. 1000 ways to skin this cat.

This is a site, where everyone gives their opinion.And you know what opinions are like.Personally I couldn’t care less if someone put loaded ammo in their oven and set it at 500°. Just as long as they don’t do it at my house.LOL!

[stubshaft]

I have an old RCBS hand depriming tool and a Lyman 310 universal depriming tool. I usually sit in front of the tv and deprime cases before running them through a wet tumble. It insures that the primer pockets are clean and any dents and dings are then ironed out when I resize.

[Mad Charlie]

This is a site, where everyone gives their opinion.And you know what opinions are like.Personally I couldn’t care less if someone put loaded ammo in their oven and set it at 500°. Just as long as they don’t do it at my house.LOL!

Exactly the way I feel!

[Klem]

The only time I deprime before cleaning is when wet cleaning, and for that I have a Lee Universal depriming die screwed into the press. Wet cleaning is a rare event in the Klem household. The reason primers come out is to help dry the cases when the hair dryer goes to work. Hot air can flow through the case with holes at either end - that's the theory anyway.

For the rest of the time which is most of the time it's dry tumbling with the primers in. Then load as normal. Over years of using the same dies I have not seen any degradation in accuracy or wear of the dies from leaving the spent primers in...just saying.

[FLshooter]

^^^^^^^^^^
That I can understand.

[Mad Charlie]

I do the same as Klem, more or less. I do wet tumble occasionally, but since I have installed brass catchers on all of my AR platforms and the cases no longer land in the dirt, I just wipe them down with a rag with a little mineral spirits or denatured alcohol. Then through the sizer as usual. I wet tumble after a batch has three firings to get the pockets clean, and generally spiffy up the cases a little. I use a cheap de-priming die to de-prime before a wet tumble. If I de-prime with my Co-Ax the residues just drop down the tube into the primer catcher.

In the days before brass catchers, I would de-prime a batch of cases and put them in an empty coffee container with hot water and a tablespoon of Simple Green Industrial and shake it up with the lid on then rinse well and dry in the oven. Still do that sometimes.
Doesn't get the pockets any cleaner though, just a quick and easy way to clean up the cases before sizing. Cleans em up after sizing too.