Anyone here reload berdan primed .308?

[anil]

If so, I've got some brass for you. If not, I'm not sure what to do with it.

Started resizing my sack of fired surplus 308. Apparently 1/2 of it is berdan primed. Bought it so long ago (way before I started reloading), I probably only looked for non-corrosive, so I guess I'm lucky any of it is boxer primed at all.

 

[Jerry M]

Put them in a 5 gallon bucket. When full, take the bucket to a metal recycle business, put $30-$40 in pocket.

Good luck

Jerry

 

[4g64loser]

anil, there is enough boxer stuff out there that most will never bother. I won't. I leave the bedamned (i mean berdan) primed stuff lay. If you police your range, just stuff it in a bucket as Jerry says and recycle for cash.

 

[lx1x]

Put them in a 5 gallon bucket. When full, take the bucket to a metal recycle business, put $30-$40 in pocket.

Good luck

Jerry

sad to say..but thats just about what you can do w/ them.

too much work for them.

 

[Rockzilla]

anil, there is enough boxer stuff out there that most will never bother. I won't. I leave the bedamned (i mean berdan) primed stuff lay. If you police your range, just stuff it in a bucket as Jerry says and recycle for cash.

Amen, it can be done, it is time consuming (a PITA), but there are several ways to do it, one way involves water in a hydraulic fashion to push the primer out, another is a tool that "hooks" the primer in the same way as a bottle opener.

-Rock

 

[Sonofagun]

Put them in a 5 gallon bucket. When full, take the bucket to a metal recycle business, put $30-$40 in pocket.

Good luck

Jerry

I was looking at my reloading book and in first couple of pages of the Metallic cartridges chapter it has a big X on Berdan primers.

Go w/ Jerry M's advice.

 

[Cowboy T]

anil, there is enough boxer stuff out there that most will never bother. I won't. I leave the bedamned (i mean berdan) primed stuff lay. If you police your range, just stuff it in a bucket as Jerry says and recycle for cash.

Hadn't heard that one before. That's a good one! And I agree. The only use for it is if your gun is chambered in something really rare, for which only Berdan brass is available. Otherwise, be green and recycle it!

 

[10xclean]

Recyle that berdan .308 If I had a gun with brass so rare that I had to fool with berdan primers... I would sell it. Not worth the hassle.