Lake City 59 ammo.

[TDH]

Then try an RCBS or Hornaday shell holder. I use a lot of Lee dies mainly because of the friction decapping pin but I still have both RCBS and Lyman dies.

[USGI]

Yep, RCBS #17 shell holder works much better than the Lee #7 for .30 Carbine. - Bob

[Wineman]

Never too old to learn a new trick. I thought it was the rims (they are SAAMI minimum though) but the S/H is part of the LEE carbide set. I'll have to pick one up.

Bob is that WA side or the OR side of the CRG? I used to get grapes from a guy near Underwood (strange coincidence on a Carbine forum) and have rafted the White Salmon many times. My Steelhead fishing buddy from the Tri-Cities, has picked up many downwind board surfers who ran out of gas with the wind and current.

Dave

[USGI]

I've got the same Lee set that you have - read somewhere that the RCBS S/H works better, so tried it. You'll still mess up some, but not near as many. We're on the OR side - pretty much taken over here by the "boardheads" during the last 30 years, or so. - Bob

[karl schmidt]

And, with two holes denoting Berdan...

The germans in the last year of WWII produced vast quantities of 7.9mm ammo with one flash hole Berdan primers. the ammo was designated with a "minus" (-) sign after the manufactures 3 letter code. due to excessive drill breakage in the steel cases.

[browningautorifle]

7.9mm ammo with one flash hole Berdan

Very interesting...

[Bruce McAskill]

Offset primer holes are nothing new with USGI ammo. Many times it was considered to be OK as it was not made for reloading just for shooting the one time. I have seen some that could have passed for a Berdan flash hole except most times it's a bit bigger then a normal Berdan hole would be. I guess the US military never gave a thought to us reloaders and we paid for that ammo with our taxes.

[browningautorifle]

The only tell would be the location of an anvil within the primer pocket. No anvil means boxer...one hole irrelevant.

[USGI]

Just found this link in one of Charlie's (painter-guy) old posts today - pretty interesting on the subject of the one flash hole Berdan primed cases! - Bob

https://www.oldammo.com/march06.htm

[browningautorifle]

pretty interesting on the subject of the one flash hole Berdan primed cases

Yep, good reading.