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Old June 14, 2002, 08:48 AM   #2
Johnny Guest
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1. No experience/no information whatever. Seems it COULD be done. Hope you get some input from others on this, because there are some obscure (in the USA) calibers for which there is NO Boxer primed brass. I suspicion, though, that one would be better off getting the gear and primers and just reloading with proper Berdan primers.

2. I have some information on this, somewhat to my own grief. In the late 1960s, I ruined an old C-H sizing die (Anyone here under age 55 remember THAT brand?) in trying to recycle some steel case EC-43 cal .45 cases. Not content to leave well enough alone, I then tried it with my (then-) cherished Lyman carbide die. I learned:
a. It CAN be done--with hand-lubed cases and going very slow, and VERY careful use of a small round file to remove the crimp. Normal crimp-removal methods do not work on the steel cases.
b. It is just flat NOT WORTH THE TROUBLE!
c. I came close to ruining even the carbide die, as well.

Oh, yeah, I broke two decapping pins inthe process, as well . . .

Best of luck,
Johnny
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