Hi All.
A while back I got 1000 fired 38Special +P nickel plated brass cases from somebody on the forum (Don't remember who, it really doesn't matter either). I've been cleaning them up, and de-priming them, and I've run into a problem. So far I've gone thru slightly more than half of them, and I have about 100 cases where the primer broke when I tried de-priming the case, the sides of the primer stayed in the case, the top of the primer came off. I don't know if these cases were 1x fired, or 10x fired, but the primers are pretty flattened, and the cases bulged a bit (before resizing). Should I even bother trying to get the rest of the primer out of the primer pocket, or should I just throw them away? If I should try, what would be the easiest way of getting the partial primer out of the primer pocket? Thanks!