I inherited several thousand rounds of cardboard wad roll crimped blanks with duties as our AL Post armorer. I have pulled the powder and popped the primers (via 03) on a couple hundred to sell as brass salvage but that is time consuming and boring. With the dearth of brass and primers these days I wondered about reloading the primed brass. I opened the crimp with a tapered punch then ran them through a die sans depriming pin. What you see is what I got. The brass is mixed headstamps of 53 & 54 vintage with no indication of neck/shoulder annealing. I assume the primers are corrosive so the cases would be reloaded with cast bullets for bolt guns.

Anybody have experience doing this? If nobody has any "OMG, never do that!" experiences or knowledge, I'll brew up a few rounds and see if the neck holds together.

Thanks for your input,

Carl
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