The Old Western Scrounger retired, and sold his business to someone back east. Does anyone have contact information. That store used to carry RWS Berdan Primers (and I need some of those).

Thanks in advance.

I just typed in old western scrounger and it gave a website. Maybe that's all you need.

Mr. Lawn Darteneo....

Here you go my man.

http://www.ows-ammo.com/store/

How the heck have you been?

Graf's has russian primers, if you don't need RWS: http://www.grafs.com/retail/ca...duct/productId/23431

Thanks Gents,

I will give them a look see.

376 Steyer,
Good choice of calibers. I need to rig up new sites on my standard Steyr rifle. Without the scope I cannot scrunch my face down hard enough to use the irons. Probably shoulds, outa bought the "Dragoon" version of the scout rifle. Live and learn. Of course I need a scope these days so my carping is senseless.

Delloro,
I could be way off base (one of my favorite places), but I believe the Soviet primers are mild mannered Boxer style units. The long range shooters favor them for their soft and consistent ignition - Just like Soviet foreign policy - not.

Surestrike,
Between bouts with the retrovirus, I am slowly but surely depriming, washing, resizing, trimming, repriming and polishing every piece of brass I have. Kind of like Sisyphus pushing the boulder up the mountain every day just to get one's liver eaten. If I can get some Berdan primers I can send you some once reloaded Kynoch to use for practice. One of those "just for the hell of it deals". Life has been good, and surely beats a dirt nap.

L/D

delloro,

I owe you an apology. Those are Berdan primers. Unfortunately they are .217" in diameter, and I need the .254" diameter size.

If anyone knows a source for those elusive .254" Berdan Primers, I would be grateful if you would share it with me.

Thanks again.

OWS ain't what it used to be...

no apology necessary, and yes, they are not .254. I will see if I can find some.

what are you reloading that needs those .254s?

Dangerous Dave sold OWS to Val Forgett [Navy Arms] some time back [Edit: 2005 according to the website], and they dropped the RWS agency around that time, if not earlier.

For 0.254" Berdan primers, you'll have to find someone that has a private stash of them. Might be worth asking on the castboolits forums.

RWS discontinued this size [both #6504 and #6507] around 6 years ago - our Oz RWS distributor sold out of these in 2008, and couldn't get any new stock.

Type 6507 is correct for large Kynoch NE cases, IIRC - http://www.dave-cushman.net/sh...lies_dimensions.html

I have a big pile of 470, 500/465, 450, 375 Flanged, and 450/400 3&1/4"

All from Kynoch, and all Berdan Primed.

I will have to use the old Kynoch primers that I picked up along the way.

I will also have to make some hydraulic deprimers. I just mangle cases with the RCBS tool. Maybe a new/sharp tip would help there