Originally Posted by JStrider

you may be able to remove the powder by pulling the bullet out gently with a pair of pliars, I did that with .22 shells as a kid. you would still have the primer tho, might be able to put the unloaded bullet in a gun and shoot it detonate the primer, then put the bullet back in the now empty shell.

prolly not the safest way to do it... but I never had any probs when I was a kid doing it with the .22s... but they were a lot smaller then the .223