evildog 20 Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 If posted or asked before sorry but could not find it. Wanting to know that yes i can reload once fired brass with a berdan primer but can you reload and use a boxer primer instead of the berdan primer? Meaning i deprime the berdan primer and then resize and insert a boxer primer. Can this work or do i need to find berdan primers? thanks for any info. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Norseman 0 Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 Technically yes you could, good luck getting out the berdan primers. Once you got the primer out you would have to resize the pocket and do something with the dual flash holes, then drill a center flash hole, then insert a boxer primer, pray, and it should work. It really just doesn't seem worth it. I just toss the berdan stuff in the scrap brass box. -E Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Saigaczech 9 Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 (edited) As Norseman said. Also Berdan cases have an integral anvil built into the case primer pocket, you would need to machine that down flat. Boxer cases do not have this feature and the primer contains the anvil. Further the size of the Berdan case primer pocket is bigger then boxer primers (probably a safeguard against stupidity) so the primer would fall out even if you did all the preceeding stuff, would need to crimp[ed in or something. I looked into the possibility of reloading Berdan primed military 308 a few years ago, hated to waste good brass, but found the technical challenges to expensive to bother. Just FYI. Edited January 27, 2009 by Saigaczech Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GimmeLiberty 0 Posted January 28, 2009 Report Share Posted January 28, 2009 There is a youtube vid of a guy that has loaded the steel case 7.62x39 ammo. reloading steel case Quote Link to post Share on other sites
turbo1889 1 Posted January 29, 2009 Report Share Posted January 29, 2009 For low pressure cartridges ( cart. pres. < 20-K PSI ) you can drill out the Berdan primer cut a slight counter sink and then make a 209 shotgun primer work: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
evildog 20 Posted January 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 For low pressure cartridges ( cart. pres. < 20-K PSI ) you can drill out the Berdan primer cut a slight counter sink and then make a 209 shotgun primer work: Thanks for the advice. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
saigafan2008 0 Posted January 30, 2009 Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 Check out this site for converting Berdan brass to boxer: http://users.ameritech.net/mchandler/primer.html Carl Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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