Reloading Berdan Primed - Anyone Doing This?

[Clarke123]

Reloading Berdan Primed Ammo - Is this crazy, or what?

Lots of cool information out there on "The Web" about ideas / ways to accomplish this.
But it's not for just anyone ... this is a SERIOUS undertaking ...

On the other hand, I have ~1200 rounds of 7.62 x 39 BRASS Yugo that just might be a candidate!!!

http://parallaxscurioandrelicfirear...5275/t/Berdan-to-Boxer-Conversion-Method.html



http://www.dave-cushman.net/shot/berdan_supplies_dimensions.html

 

[Junior_357]

I have heard of it being done...but I have also heard of it being a PITA as well.

 

[BHJ]

I have converted some brass in several calibers from berdan to boxer primers. I haven't had any problems with it once converted. I did break a decapping pin on some .303 Brit once though. I called Mary at Lee Precision and told her what happened and that it was my fault and they sent me a new decapping pin free. I didnt notice the different size primers mentioned in the article though. All mine fit snug with no work and haven't given me any problems.

 

[rbstern]

It's probably worth it for harder-to-find/more expensive boxer brass calibers. I wouldn't spend my time doing that with 7.62x39 brass. I'd wait until one of the reloading vendors got a shipment of Berdan primers and buy five or ten K worth of them. Seems to happen every two or three years.

 

[Clarke123]

It's probably worth it for harder-to-find/more expensive boxer brass calibers. I wouldn't spend my time doing that with 7.62x39 brass. I'd wait until one of the reloading vendors got a shipment of Berdan primers and buy five or ten K worth of them. Seems to happen every two or three years.

IMHO the best advice I've seen on the subject ... Deprime and clean your corrosive primed stuff as soon as possible after shooting (corrosive salts will attack brass!), then wait until the primers become available.

 

[RamRoddoc]

When I find Berdan primed brass, I toss it with a few explatives. It's more trouble than it's worth to reload for most of us. It also often jacks up my depriming pin if I miss it. However if you have a rare round and berdan primed is all you can acquire then do what you must, it can be reloaded with some degree of difficultly.

 

[Bear44]

When I find Berdan primed brass, I toss it with a few explatives. It's more trouble than it's worth to reload for most of us. It also often jacks up my depriming pin if I miss it. However if you have a rare round and berdan primed is all you can acquire then do what you must, it can be reloaded with some degree of difficultly.

^^^^THIS^^^^ Unless it's a very rare round it's just not worth the trouble.