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Old 10-06-2010, 08:29 PM
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Arrow Berdan primers!!!!

I'm likely one of the very few that care, and hopefully they'll have some when the club gets an order together...

Graf's has some Tula Berdan primers listed finally, and I believe it will fit some 7.62x54 brass I've saved, and also some .303 British and 12ga brass.

Just for those that want to know...stock up because Berdan primers have a history of hanging around for a bit and then whoever brought them in quit because of low demand.

Sure, they're a bit troublesome sometimes, but not bad- and as brass is expensive, this is a great way to get around it.
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Old 10-06-2010, 10:13 PM
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OK, so what's the best way to deprime Berdan primed cases? Are you loading brass or steel cases or both? Give me a reason to save all the 7.62x39 Berdan primed steel cases that I'm using.

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Old 10-06-2010, 10:54 PM
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Never tried steel, but I've read on the net that others have.

Believe it or not, I've used a very sharp antique can opener to deprime them by punching a hole in the corner of the primer near the case, and then by simply prying up on them they pop right out. I've got one of the RCBS tools, but never had any luck with it.

An easier way would be making a jig on a drill press to make a tiny hole with a wire drill and then using any kind of nail or rod to just pry them out- I've never slipped with the can opener, but if I did it would be a nasty cut.
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Old 10-06-2010, 11:13 PM
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The only Berdan primers I ever dealt with were for a friend's .450 BPE.
We clamped the sizing die in a vise, dropped a shell in, drove an awl into the primer indent at an angle we hoped would miss the anvil, and pried. Worked ok but slow.
There are several approaches to hydraulic decapping, from just filling the case with water and driving a snug dowel into the case mouth with a mallet; to running the water filled case into the case expander die in the press.
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Old 10-07-2010, 07:34 AM
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I used to use original Kynoch cases in my doubles with a # 6507 berdan primer.

RCBS made a tool for de-capping but it was at best clumsy. I purchased an hydraulic unit made in England and outside of the cases getting wet it worked perfectly.
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Old 10-08-2010, 09:17 AM
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A friend of mine reloads Blazer aluminum cases, with good success, using standard CCI primers. I haven't asked him how he gets the old primers out as I do not use the aluminum cases myself. I do know that he only loads them to the lower end of the charge range for any given caliber.
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Old 10-09-2010, 12:27 AM
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Berdan is french for pain in the a** to reload. I remember running into a 45acp case in a batch of mixed brass I was resizing when I was a teenager and bending the decaping pin in the resizing die.

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