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Posted: 10/23/2015 9:02:56 AM EDT
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Has anyone ever tried to deprime a live 50 bmg primer from old military surplus?
I have done it with normal small and large primers with no issues. But they whete not crimped in and I was very light with the ram. |
| It is not worth messing with depriming a live primer. Put it in a chamber and pop it first. Oldman and I are both folks that found out the hard way not to mess with a live primer. The 50 BMG primer can put a hurt on you. Oil will not effectively kill it either. At least not enough to take a chance with it. I have a primer that traveled at least 8" into my gut from the front to the side in 2011. It's still in there. I posted Xrays of it back then. |
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If it was one you primed then I would say yes but being a staked in primer I would say no. Those stakes really hold primers in place, they break depriming pins all the time.
Plus you're going to have all that force needing to go somewhere. I remember when ridurall posted pics from when he got hurt. Looked like he got fragged from a handgrenade! Take his advice and pop the primer first and then deprime it! |
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Definitely pop the primer first. .50bmg primers have about as much energy as a .22 blank, and can blast themselves out of the primer pocket, ricochet around and cause surprising damage. Here's the thread from when ridurall "shot" himself with the primer while trying to remove it. |
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