Is this crazy? Or safe? Berdan primers

Hunter_17 · June 10, 2013, 07:58 PM

I found this on the Internet is it safe anyone tried it.

I have popped out a few primers

What ya all think?

SHTF: Reloading Steel Case berdan ammo with regular primers in a pinch. 7.62x39 Tulammo Wolf

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GwmmsZ-aX4g

www.youtube.com

Scimmia · June 11, 2013, 11:48 AM

Part of it is safe, part is crazy.

If you're going to do this, please use berdan primers instead of supergluing in the smaller boxer primers.

Some dies you could just remove the decapping pin instead of the whole assembly. With the Lees he's using, you can usually just set the expander assembly up higher and not have expand the necks in a separate step.

lee n. field · June 11, 2013, 03:25 PM

Yup. The iffy-est part is turning Boxer primers into "sort of" Berdan primers. Might work, might not.

It's labeled "SHTF". I can't see doing it in any normal circumstances.

Real SHTF would have him also using black powder and cast lead bullets lubed with Crisco.

June 10, 2013, 07:58 PM	#1
Hunter_17 Member Join Date: January 27, 2013 Posts: 21	Is this crazy? Or safe? Berdan primers I found this on the Internet is it safe anyone tried it. I have popped out a few primers What ya all think? SHTF: Reloading Steel Case berdan ammo with regular primers in a pinch. 7.62x39 Tulammo Wolf http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GwmmsZ-aX4g www.youtube.com

June 11, 2013, 03:25 PM	#3
lee n. field Senior Member Join Date: October 12, 2002 Location: The same state as Mordor. Posts: 5,587	Yup. The iffy-est part is turning Boxer primers into "sort of" Berdan primers. Might work, might not. It's labeled "SHTF". I can't see doing it in any normal circumstances. Real SHTF would have him also using black powder and cast lead bullets lubed with Crisco. __________________ "As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven. "

June 11, 2013, 11:48 AM	#2
Scimmia Senior Member Join Date: May 19, 2011 Location: Eastern IA Posts: 428	Part of it is safe, part is crazy. If you're going to do this, please use berdan primers instead of supergluing in the smaller boxer primers. Some dies you could just remove the decapping pin instead of the whole assembly. With the Lees he's using, you can usually just set the expander assembly up higher and not have expand the necks in a separate step.