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NcongruNt wrote:

MegaWatt wrote:

CDH wrote:Extend your depriming pin more. They can protrude quite far before the stem begins to hit the case inside. There is no reason to keep the pin only sticking out 'just enough'.

I have had a couple pop the center out of the primer and leave the sides in the primer hole, but maybe one in 2 hundred and they looked like they had a little corrosion starting in the seam between the primer and case.

I have extended it some and it helps but I'm cautious about having too much pin sticking out because you run the risk of bending or breaking it.

Which brand of die is it? The lee dies have the decapping pin in a collet mechanism that will pop out if too much pressure is exerted on the decapper, so that it's very unlikely that the decapping pin will break or bend from a stubborn primer or accidental use on a Berdan primer. If it does pop out, it can be easily reset without damage to the die or pin.

I'm using RCBS dies and a Dillon 650. I've also re-seated the old primer but I noticed the brass colored primer in with all the silvers. Totally lucked out. Normally I would have found it shooting a critical IDPA stage.

CDH wrote:Extend your depriming pin more. They can protrude quite far before the stem begins to hit the case inside. There is no reason to keep the pin only sticking out 'just enough'.

I have had a couple pop the center out of the primer and leave the sides in the primer hole, but maybe one in 2 hundred and they looked like they had a little corrosion starting in the seam between the primer and case.

I have extended it some and it helps but I'm cautious about having too much pin sticking out because you run the risk of bending or breaking it.

Once I finally get the factory primer out of the PPU case, I have no trouble putting another primer in it. It's getting the original one out that's a problem. I'll try to get a close up picture of one and post it.

MoJo wrote:Are we sure these are boxer primed cases? It is starting to sound like you are trying to decap Berdan primed cases. Take a bright light shine it into the case and see if you have a single flash hole in the center or two or three around the center. One central hole good two or three bad. If I were having as much difficulty depriming as you are I'd decap them all with a hammer and punch providing they are boxer primed.

They are not Berdans. There's one hole in the middle. I have used a small drift pin punch on some and they're even hard to knock out with that. Not all PPUs do this but the only cases I have trouble with are PPU. If you know what I mean.

The new primers go in no problem. They don't appear to be crimped and I don't de-burr them. A friend of mine who is new to reloading happened to tell me he was having trouble with some cases that look like the primers are dimpled out but not knocked out. I asked him what kind of cases there were and he said PPU. PPU is Privi Partizan from Serbia, which may explain some of it. Academy sells it as Monarch. I've had military crimped brass before and this doesn't look the same.

Has anyone else run into primers not popping out of PPU cases? (9mm) I use mostly range brass and I've noticed many times the primers don't come out of these cases, they just sort of dimple outwards and cause the shell holder to bind up. I extended the primer de-cap pin out a little and it helps but there are still some it just doesn't knock out. I've even used a small drift pin to knock them out with a little hammer and takes a lot to get the primer out. I've re-reloaded PPU cases with primers I had put in and it works fine.