So I pick up a bag of new WW brass in .44 mag yesterday, and start the process of FL sizing, etc..


For some reason I backed up the decapping pin into the die.

Does this happen often, or did I win the lottery?

Now that IS odd.

Shhhh....not so loud....

Winchester will send you a bill for 3 cents for the primer...

woooahhh now thats weird. I've never heard of that happening.

I bought 500 44 mag cases from Starline and noticed that about 6-7 of them were also primed!!!! Go figure

Excuse my ignorance, but I thought Winchester primers were silver and Remington primers were brass-colored. That primer cup looks brass-colored to me. If my first statement is true, how would a Remington primer get into a W-W case?

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Originally posted by Doubless:
Excuse my ignorance, but I thought Winchester primers were silver and Remington primers were brass-colored. That primer cup looks brass-colored to me. If my first statement is true, how would a Remington primer get into a W-W case?

Winchester primers I've bought over the last 3 years are brass colored. Federal's are nickel colored. Can't tell who's primer it is by color alone.

Rancho Loco, You state the decapping stem backed up into the die, are those Lee dies you are using? I've decapped lots of hot primers. Nothing too it, never had one pop, but I do always cover the press with a heavy towel and wear safety glasses. Sounds like you don't have the stem properly tightened. Re-read the setup instrucitons and readjust the stem. No big surprise to find primed cases in with unprimed. If you reload long enough you will even see powder manufactuers mislabel powders. That's makes you feel better I'm sure.

I just backed the stem up instead of removing it. I figured I was not removing spent primers so it didn't need to be in play. I was banging through the brass at a pretty good clip, and noticed the primer after doing a few more. It would not have been a gentle stroke through the primer if the pin had been down.

Who knows what would have happened, I'm sure it would have been a suprise if it went off.

As for other suprises, I did find a 7mm mag in a box of Remington .300 win mag factory loads last year.
That's when I decided I might be better off rolling my own.