Pulling bullets and Case reuse

[Zetter]

So as its my half century coming up I decided to treat myself to a rebarrel and general semi custom on my venerable Sako 75 in .243 which is currently underway.

However this now leaves with about 30 rounds of reloads that were for the rifle in its former guise as a factory barrel so I know I cant use them and they will need to be pulled.

My question is as I have never really had to do this (apart from the one occasion where I was an idiot and mixed up some primed and unprimed cases and reloaded a few unprimed ones and wondered why there was a bit of powder over the bench ) Can I just pull the bullet empty out the powder and start working a load up for the new improved rifle with the pulled cases as they are already primed? Do I have to do any case resizing again? These were FL sized so have not been just neck sized.
I would have thought so but just wanted to check if it presented any major issued as I was just planning to use them to get a feel for the load the new improved gun would take.

Cheers Zetter

 

[palmer_mike]

Pull Bullets, tip out powder the resize neck with expander button backed off enough so the decapping pin doesn’t push the primer out.
Then reload as normal

 

[bluesako]

are you getting a custom chamber? if not it will be a sammi speck one and if your old rounds are full length sized they should fit .bs

 

[Alantoo]

Why can't you use them in the new rifle?

If you do a normal safety /pressure string in the new barrel and they are within that range, what is the problem?

30 rounds is neither here nor there really, seems a waste of work to remake them. Better to just use them for plinking, to practice trigger and hold, and then reload them to your new parameters.

Alan

 

[Drum123]

are you getting a custom chamber? if not it will be a sammi speck one and if your old rounds are full length sized they should fit .bs

This^^

 

[Zetter]

Nope normal clambering on it I. They are middle of the road rounds as far as powder load go so not really hot or anything.
Didnt think of running a load up and if they were in the suitable range using them.

Cheers All that makes a lot more sense!

Glad I asked

 

[bluesako]

i would try them in your new rifle, they might suprise you and shoot great, i always check my old rounds if i get a rebarrell job, its worked for me 3 times, it cant do any harm trying them. and might save you alot of time and money. atb bs.

 

[Muir]

New Rifle. New loads. Don't drag potential issues to your new rifle. ~Muir

 

[Woodsmoke]

Just shoot them. If they group, brilliant. If not, they'll do fine as practice

 

[Eddie P]

I'm in the same situation.
Neck sized rounds
My plan: pull 1 bullet, remove powder.
Check the case to see if chambers. I'm expecting it to get stuck.
Knock out with rod if sticks.

In which case, I'll pull the rest, and full length resize and go from there.

If it does chamber.
I'll try some full rounds to see the groups.