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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 3036096" data-attributes="member: 5412"><p>You can pretty much remove the primer in a couple of different ways safely. One is to remove the bullet, fill the round half way with water, and use a punch with the same outside diameter as the inside diameter of the brass, impacting the punch with a hammer to develop  hydraulic forces that will pop it right out,(this is how to deprime european berdan primers) or use a punch the same diameter as the flash hole, or depriming tool to gently press it out from the inside. The way a primer is constructed with an internal anvil, it needs to be struck by the firing pin from the outside to generate the pressure that will ignite the primer material. Pressing one out from the inside would not generate the pressure to ignite the primer.</p></blockquote><p></p>