By the way, I have heard that you can deprime Berdan cases by filling the case with water, inserting a close fitting dowel, and rapping that dowel with a mallet. The hydraulic pressure pops the old...
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Type: Posts; User: NEVADABACKROADER
Forum: Special Projects
By the way, I have heard that you can deprime Berdan cases by filling the case with water, inserting a close fitting dowel, and rapping that dowel with a mallet. The hydraulic pressure pops the old...
Forum: Classics & Stickies
Have you tried filling the berdan primed cases with water and using a dowel that just fits the case neck? You hit the dowel with a mallet and use the water pressue to deprime the case.
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