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It looks like I will be coming into possession of 2,000 RWS Berdan Primers. 1,000 will be the right size for my stash of 375 Flanged magnum brass (all virginal). The rest will fit 470 NE; 500/465 H&H NE; 450/400 3&1/4 Magnum NE; and some straight 450 3&1/4" NE. If any of you gentlemen, as well as my older brother RIP, have some favorite recipes in those calibers, could you post those here or in a PM. I would very much be in your debt. This is obviously Kynoch brass from the 1960s and 1970s (residual). It is in very good condition. I will anneal every piece before loading. If you ave reduced loads for introduction to the NEs; that would be tres cool. Any lead loads would also be good to keep costs down for practice. For example, the Hornady XTP bullet for the 475 Linebaugh and such can be used for practice in a loading that allows regulation. How cool is that. I am building both a hydraulic and a dry decapping system. It gives a whole new dimension to asking a girl over to help decap some Berdan primers, he, he, he. I look forward to hearing/reading some favorite recipes. I am the first to admit that it almost chokes me that new, Boxer primed 470 NE cases cost well over eighty dollars for twenty cases, yikes! Thanks in advance, LD. | ||
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Captech International has them priced at just under $240 for 100 cases. =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= DRSS; NRA; Illinois State Rifle Association; Missouri Sport Shooting Association “One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.” – Thomas Sowell, “The Vision Of The Anointed: Self-Congratulation As A Basis For Social Policy” . | |||
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lawndart, I use .217" Berdan primers in my early 404J Kynoch cases and use a small calibre RCBS decapper stem (it is a 223 cal I think) with a two diameter decapper pin I made from a tough piece of straight spring steel. Don't know where this length of steel came from but was in my drawer of bits and pieces The larger diameter end of the pin of course is held in the collet of the stem and the smaller diameter decapper end I turned down using a carborundum stone while I spun the pin against a rest until this small diameter end would fit the Berdan flash holes (one of them). The original Kynoch primers had purple sealing shellac around them but punch out while the case is held in the reloading press shell holder and protruded above the die station, handle fully down. Provided you keep the stem upright in its off centre position in the case and tap carefully with a small hammer, the factory and subsequently reloaded spent Berdan primers pop out easily. I tried spun down drill stem and file stems before I found the spring steel but while they would sometimes decap a few primers they were too soft at the small diameter needed for the Berdan flash holes and usually bend or broke quite quickly. That's my decapping method anyway, good luck with your trials. BTW I immediately anneal my Kynoch cases if they haven't split at the neck already as some have on the first firing of the older factory ammo. Cast bullets is the way to go to give real longevity of precious and expensive cases plus it is very interesting to really roll your own. | |||
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Bro'Dart, Too advanced for this redneck reloader. I have a few old Berdan-primed 10.75x73 Mauser cases, but I just went ahead and pulled the bullets and fired off the primers in my rifle, then made 404 Jeffery feed dummies out of them. They look like hell now, all scratched up. The rest were necked down to various imaginary double-shouldered wildcats. Those look like hell too. So I can't help other than with the usual RL-15 (filler) and H4831 (no filler) loads for the 470 NE, which I am sure you already know about, but those use F215 primers. | |||
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