Removing Primers w/out a Press

[PewPewChris]

I saw all of these folks on YouTube using a socket and a primer removal tool, etc. I wanted to also remove the primers of my cartridges prior to wet tumbling. My quick and easy way of doing this was to simply get a towel the was folded up a few times...sit the cartridge down on the towel, line up the primer tool onto the primer and then take a rubber mallet and give the head of the primer tool a good wack or two, thus pushing the primer out of the cartridge. It seemed to work well...but now I'm second guessing myself as to whether that was "right" or "good" to do it that way.

Thoughts?

 

[Les638]

Fill with water insert a tight fitting rod part way and hit rod with hammer,

 

[Hunterrs]

You don’t need to remove the primers for pistol brass. If you just really want too, buy one of these, I use mine all the time.

https://www.frankfordarsenal.com/hand-deprimer/909283.html#start=1

 

[Nuke And Juke]

Pew pew...i have the frankford arsenal hand deprimer. yours for only $35

 

[PewPewChris]

My tools of choice...a 2-3 times folded old towel, a punch pin I found in all the stuff my father-in-law gave me and a rubber mallet. It seemed to work really well/smooth and I knocked out probably 200 rounds in a short period of time. I realize you don't "need" to remove primers prior to cleaning...but I'm anal about stuff...and had the time, and I'm learning...so, there you go.

 

[PewPewChris]

Fill with water insert a tight fitting rod part way and hit rod with hammer,

Fill every cartridge with water? What would be the reasoning for that?

 

[BIKER13]

cool

 

[iflyskyhigh]

Fill every cartridge with water? What would be the reasoning for that?

Creates a hydraulic ram effect. Forces primer out.


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[iflyskyhigh]

Why can’t you do it in the press?


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[PewPewChris]

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Why can’t you do it in the press?


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I don’t have a press yet. I’m in the infancy stages of all of this...gathering components as they come. I just picked up a tumbler and have been collecting my .40 and .223 cartridges for some time, so I’m starting to prep them by removing the primers and cleaning the brass.