Tula Berdan primers

[wallenba]

I just got an e-mail notification from Graf & son that Tula Berdan primers were available, and they are non-corrosive .
Is there now an expediant way to to reload Berdan primed brass that I missed hearing about? Curious.

[canebreaker]

Yea, someone made and sales a plunger kit to remove berdan primers.
I think I saw it here a few moons ago.

[RayinNH]

I think it's still a slow proposition, it just allows you to utilize some hard to find brass...Ray

[milprileb]

I deprime 6 cases per minute with the RCBS tool. Ain't nothing to it.

I buy my Berdan Tulla primers from Dagammo.com. Great fast service and cheap.

My results with Berdan Tulla primers in 303 British and 7.5 Swiss GP 11 berdan brass has been the same results as using Winchester boxer primers in Prvi brass . Winchester primers and Tula berdan primers replicate same results in all my pet loads.

[hk33ka1]

I never reloaded any Berdan stuff. If I had a rare case to load with it I'd buy the RCBS primer remover tool and think a Lee die with the bottom of the expander/deprimer rod cut off would size easy?

[milprileb]

I snapped the pin off the expander / depriming rod on my 303 British Lee die so I could size berdan 303 brass. Its a 3 dollar rod so its not like a big deal.

I use same FL sizing die for boxer primed 303 British brass but deprime separately on the Lee Universal Depriming Die ($8). Its not going to break and is just about bullet proof.

ON boxer primed rifle brass, I have had too many depriming pins on my RCBS, LEE, Hornady
etc etc dies snap or bend. I just deprime separately all rifle brass on my Lee universal depriming die
and avoid the broken pins altogether.

Reloading is a hobby and ten minutes to deprime 100 cases is enjoyable. I am not into a time/motion study at my bench.

[RayinNH]

Reloading is a hobby and ten minutes to deprime 100 cases is enjoyable. I am not into a time/motion study at my bench.


Exactly. That's not bad ten minutes/100. I would have figured double that...Ray

[milprileb]

Ray, my next store neighbor collects stamps. Its a free country
and more power to him. However in the greater sum of things,
time spent making ammo for the range sure seems to be wondrous vs
licking stamps and cataloging them in a book.

Choice is wonderful: I made the right choice for a hobby.

[SquirrelHollow]

Exactly. That's not bad ten minutes/100. I would have figured double that...Ray

Some of the home-built hydraulic (water) decapping methods are even faster. You do have deal with drying time, though.

One method, even though I don't like this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQNDgjcgofY

This is one of the easiest and cleanest methods:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FskNx4UBZvc&feature=related


As others have said... sometimes, it's much easier to deal with berdan primed cases, than it is to track down the rare boxer equivalent.
Or, in some cases, people have found the berdan cases to be superior, such as certain brands of 7.5x55mm.

[n.h.schmidt]

I viewed both of the videos. I have done my own version of both methods. Of the two the second is the better way to go. Water completely surrounds the case,inside and out except for the base. It can be fast and results in no case distortion.
n.h.schmidt

[groovy mike]

For about $60 the Berdan decapping tool makes this an easy job. The hard part is finding Berdan primers. DAG ammo has Tula primers right now but they have been off the market for a decade. Anybody got another source?

[SquirrelHollow]

I've seen them show up in Graf's inventory, on occasion.

[milprileb]

The hard part is finding Berdan primers. DAG ammo has Tula primers right

This is my source for Berdan and I am quite pleased on service and price. If you want primers, don't snooze and lose out. Get them while you can. When sales diminish they will not be stocked anymore and if you think on that: there is a small number of us with berdan brass on hand so that demand is going to be tiny and not warrant importers to stock berdan very long in the future.

Buy now or buy not ! Do I have an insider clue this is true... YES I DO.