45 ACP Case Berdan primed

[varmintpopper]

Reloaded a bunch of .45 ACP cases today and found One case of foreign manufacture with "Berdan" primer hole instead of Boxer. This could be a common thing, but the first time I've seen it.
What's Your say about this ?

Good Shooting

Lindy

[Sasquatch-1]

I've never seen one, other than the aluminum Blazers.

[toot]

only BLAZERS FOR ME ALSO.

[skeettx]

What does the head stamp read?

[varmintpopper]

Head stamp seems to be Arabic, which I'm unable to read. But does have "45 ACP" stamped on it.



Good Shooting

Lindy

[lightman]

I've never seen one either.

[WRideout]

Some other countries have used 45 ACP as a service cartridge; I believe Brazil was one of them.

Wayne

[higgins]

If you fired the factory-loaded ammo in your gun it would be a good idea to treat it as corrosive. Corrosive .308 that didn't look military or old was imported from South America in the 90s; I don't remember what type priming it had.

[DocSavage]

Russian steel case maybe.

[david s]

Is the Arabic symbol a Browning Buckmark? I'm not sure where Brownings been sourcing there's from.

[Outpost75]

Vietnam era French for M3 greasegun is corrosive and Berdan, but hot and accurate.

[Gator 45/70]

Berdan primed 45 ACP's? Is nothing sacred anymore?

[Bad Ass Wallace]

I was give a box of CBC 38WCF and to reload them I needed Berdan primers.

[Shepherd2]

Back in the early 70s a lot of the surplus 45 ACP ammo was Berdan primed. I don't recall the country of origin.

[Armorer77]

It was Norway . I had a box .

[Dutchman]

Argentina .45 acp Berdan and non-corrosive. I think this dates to the early 1980s. I know I bought a few boxes.

https://images12.fotki.com/v1226/photos/2/28344/1676633/cr19-vi.jpg (https://public.fotki.com/dutchman/crufflerstuff/wapenroom/cr19.html)

[rondog]

I find a 9mm or two now and then, never a .45acp that I recall.

[shooterg]

I've never seen one, other than the aluminum Blazers.

The large primer aluminum were Berdan for sure . The small primer aluminum I have are boxer and I have reloaded some multiple times , target loads with H&G BB68's. Kinda cool, 'cause no biggie if I lose 'em !

[pworley1]

Usually when I work through a 5 gallon bucket of mixed range brass I will find a dozen or so berdan primed brass. Most are 9mm but I have found a few 45's.

[36g]

I had some 25 round boxes of .45 Tracers in the 1970's that were Berdan and from either Brazil or Argentina. I'll see if I kept one for the cartridge collection.

[MostlyLeverGuns]

I remember 45 ACP with Berdan primers back in the 70's, not common but it occasionally showed up.

[Winger Ed.]

Back in the 80's or so, there was a big bunch of I think Brazilian, brass case, .45ACP surplus ammo floating around the market.

I came across a pretty good sized hand full of it in those days, but haven't seen any Berdan primed ones for the last 20 years or so.