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This p.m., I was reloading some .470 NE ammo. Some if it was Bertram brass. But the flash holes in the BB are not in the center, so I screwed up the decapping insert of my sizing die. Silly me for assuming the flash hole would be in the center.  And no, they are not Berdan primed. | ||
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Many of us de-cap the big nitro-expresses by hand before sizing: it can be a 'big ask' to expect the decapper to hit the flash-hole dead-centre every time, unsupported for over 3 inches. (..extra-big ask for Bertram's flash-holes  )Not like you're doing a hundred at a time... Marrakai When the bull drops, the bullsh!t stops! | |||
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Actually I have never had this problem with any other brand of .470 brass, with any brand of .500 brass, or any brand of .600 brass. However, now I know better. | |||
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While we're on the subject of Bertram brass, is it true that Bell has gone TU? I've used some Bertram in an 11.15x60R (.43 Mauser) that I have and it has proven to be really shitty stuff. The Bell brass I have is great. | |||
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Bell is long gone. They sold their equipment to Jamison in South Dakota. | |||
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I've never had any decapping problems with my Nitro Express work. I have priming prblems that were the results of CHD4 shell holders! Never again! Rusty We Band of Brothers! DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member "I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends." ----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836 "I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841 "for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.” | |||
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500 Grs Twas that your article in the new African Hunter on bullet penitration, if so, it was quite nice. Ray Atkinson Atkinson Hunting Adventures 10 Ward Lane, Filer, Idaho, 83328 208-731-4120 rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com | |||
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Yes Ray, thank you. | |||
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