8x56R Brass

[challenger_i]

Gents, I'm still learning the ins, and outs, of this site, so if this is posted in the wrong spot, please bear with me....

I am looking for fired 8x56R military brass. I'd bet there are a few brave souls out there, that are shooting the military stuff through their thumpers, and have no use for the empties...

Drop me a PM, with what you have.

Thanks!

[Intel6]

You do understand that it is all Berdan primed?

You goign to convert them or reload the Berdan primers?

[docone31]

A good way to convert them.
http://users.ameritech.net/mchandler/primer.html
I had figuired out a way to do it with a press.
Have a die set made.

[challenger_i]

I have about 2000 Norma LR Berdans just dying for a home...
PITA, yes. However, 8x56R, and 303 Brit, are the only cartidges I load,
and I haven't seen Berdan-primed (with a standard-size LR primer) in
20 years.

Hence, the search for discarded, unloved, military 8x56R.




You do understand that it is all Berdan primed?

You goign to convert them or reload the Berdan primers?

[bruce drake]

I believe you can reform 7.62x54R brass to 8x56 but with a short neck afterwards.

[Tedly]

FWIW I saw some 8x56R being given away on another board very recently.The guy did'nt want to throw it out /scrap it and was offering it up...sorry I can't recall which board. May have been on Gunboards.com...Norma primers are great...they gave more accurate groups for me than the PMC Berdans that recently came in. I think I may have afew hundred still. Going to try them in my 6.5x55 or 7.5x55 loads to compare against the PMC...HTH...Tedly

[milsurp mike]

I have fire formed 7.62x54r to 8x56 and it is a little short on the neck but it worked great.Mike

[challenger_i]

Finding reloadable brass isn't the issue. Prvi brass is fairly common. I am looking for military 8x56r so that I can make use of my primer stock.

[bruce drake]

Than start picking up all those surplus 7.62x54 cases that sit around most ranges... :)

Bruce

[challenger_i]

All the discarded 7.62x54 on the local ranges is steel. Darnit!

[milsurp mike]

I got a bunch of Fired brass berdan primed 7.62x54r cases I have been saving for the scrap yard.If you want them let me know.Mike

[challenger_i]

Thanks, for the offer. Do you have a price in mind?

[milsurp mike]

PM sent on a bunch of fired pcs and a bunch of unfired primed pcs.Mike

[bruce drake]

Polish and Albanian and some Russian surplus 7.62x54R are brass. I've got a bunch of all three in a box under my bench still primed and waiting to be loaded with cast boolits. I pull the powder and bullets from the surplus cases for use in other rifles and re-use the cases for plinking loads for the boys.

[challenger_i]

Just letting every one know, I'm still in the market for MilSurp 8x56R brass.

Holler!

[challenger_i]

Just letting every one know, I'm still in the market for MilSurp 8x56R brass.

Thanks!

[DanM]

No help on your search, but I have done the berdan repriming of the few surplus 8x56r cases that I had. Worked fine with the 30 or so berdan cases that I had. I was using the PMC primers and decapped with the RCBS tool which works great when you nail the adjustment down just right. My berdan cases were good for only 4-5 reloads. Those little anvil pins get flattened out gradually until they quit working....

You might check out the www.ammobrasstrader.com forum.

[challenger_i]

Thanks! I'llgive them a try.

[HARRYMPOPE]

Just letting every one know, I'm still in the market for MilSurp 8x56R brass.

Thanks!

i have 96 new Graff cases i'll never use.$40delivered. sold to ambergrifleman

PM if interested

HMP

[ambergrifleman]

P.M Sent ! Harry M. Pope

[Baron von Trollwhack]

Last time I checked 7.62 X 54R Russian base diameter was rather small for 8 X 56R. Not to my liking for full power loads.

BvT

[challenger_i]

Still looking for 8x56R milsurp brass. Thanks!

[challenger_i]

Still looking for brass. Thanks!