I have a bunch of 8mm Lebel ammo on strippers. Hotchkiss machine gun,
I remover the heads and powder(square silver flakes).
I went through 48 of them.
Tried to fire off the primers, and not one fired. (Good thing I didn't for the machine gun to go with the ammo)
Good hard hits. Big dent.
I tried the hydraulic method and they didn't come out. Strong crimp.
I have the RCBS berdan primer remover, but kind of wondering if I should try it.
I hoping the primers are dead, but don't want one to go off while I'm depriming.
I want to see if I can reuse the shells for Cast boolets. Like to see if I can modify to boxer prime.