Have brass but can not travel!!

[iringtwice]

Buddy of mine, who reloads everything, won't touch berdan primered brass. He buys boxer primer brass and reloads that. I have close to 500 rds of POF and don't like to shoot it(hang fires, click bangs, nothing at alls) and wanted to reload them and asked his advice, he told me to pull the bullet, dump the cordite and sell the brass. Though he did suggest that a new spring for my No1Mk3* might help with some of the hang fires.

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[three0three]

Buddy of mine, who reloads everything, won't touch berdan primered brass. He buys boxer primer brass and reloads that. I have close to 500 rds of POF and don't like to shoot it(hang fires, click bangs, nothing at alls) and wanted to reload them and asked his advice, he told me to pull the bullet, dump the cordite and sell the brass. Though he did suggest that a new spring for my No1Mk3* might help with some of the hang fires.

hey, you wanna sell that pof?

[iringtwice]

hey, you wanna sell that POF?

Sent you a PM three0three.

[three0three]

I have searched my catalogs and the net for two days now and I can not find a source for berdan primers, not even the wrong size berdan primers LOL

I am willing to put in the labor to rescue my brass from being scrap but I just can not find a sourcefor those damn ignitors.

luckily, i am going to be working 50 hours a week for the next 2 months which will keep me from making it to the scrap yard therefore enabling me to keep up the search for the berdan grail

[Bruce_in_Oz]

I have searched my catalogs and the net for two days now and I can not find a source for berdan primers, not even the wrong size berdan primers LOL

I am willing to put in the labor to rescue my brass from being scrap but I just can not find a sourcefor those damn ignitors.

luckily, i am going to be working 50 hours a week for the next 2 months which will keep me from making it to the scrap yard therefore enabling me to keep up the search for the berdan grail

In my "New! Revised" 3rd edition of Frank Barnes "Cartridges of the World" circa 1972, there is a whole chapter on primers. Page 305 contains a table of Eley/Kynoch, RWS and Alcan Berdan primers.

For .25" for .303 Brit there are:
RWS 6000, Eley/Kynoch 41 and Alcan 250B.

In Australia, I have only ever seen the RWS product in shops, and then not for a while now.

Your mileage may differ.

I found a small stash of RWS 1584 primers at a gun show a while ago: great for reloading European .22 Hornet cases or Oz Mil 9mm Para brass!

[Skip]

A friend of mine gave me 2K of Berdan primers that nicely fit the 7.62X39 and Turk 8MM brass. They come 250 primers per sleeve.

[Bruce_in_Oz]

A friend of mine gave me 2K of Berdan primers that nicely fit the 7.62X39 and Turk 8MM brass. They come 250 primers per sleeve.

They also fit the FN .303 brass!

The RWS 6000 come in cheesy cardboard sleeves of 150. Old stock is in green cardboard, later stuff is grey, like the pic.

[three0three]

A friend of mine gave me 2K of Berdan primers that nicely fit the 7.62X39 and Turk 8MM brass. They come 250 primers per sleeve.

aarrgghhh!!!!! lucky you