Paul - some years ago I was talking to one of the original members of a club I shot at and we got into a discussion about reloading costs. He talked about when he first started in the reloading game he used a hand loading tool for roll crimping his shells and a small pliers like tool that pierced and popped the primer cup out of a shotgun shell; and then re-primed with a pistol primer or maybe he meant a small rifle primer such as is used in a .22 Hornet. He said when the new complete primer as we now use arrived on the scene, it was easier, although costlier, to reload.
I got the decapper tool from Walter and had it around here for a long time but sold it at a gun show to a collector. I used it to decap some primers and it worked pretty slick but was time consuming to do 100 hulls. Plus, I never knew which primer to use in the reloaded hulls so never went further than doing what you described.
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