The Turks used some very hard primers. I had rifles that would fire surplus ammo with no problems, but when you fed them Turkish ammo, I would start getting misfires. It would take a second strike to get it to go off. I now carry new Wolf springs in my shoot box. Now someone might say” Why don’t you just change the firing pin springs in all your rifles and be done with it?” But those would only be the be the people that don’t know how many rifles I have.My experience with Yugo has been the same. Reliable, but more than mildly corrosive.
The postWW2 Turk stuff I had was more like acidic than corrosive. Would rust the gun in front of your eyes. On top of that half were duds and the ones that did light off smelled terrible.
I avoid that stuff like angry cobras now.
Its pretty vexing that 2 years after the Wuhan Flu domestic producers still cant seem to find any capacity to churn out a few milsurp cartridges once in a while.
I use a collet bullet puller, which is quite and easy. I do a bandolier at a time. There’s no depriming and repriming, no case prep and takes less than half the time. I also have two single stage presses set up. And then I can save the extra power for reloading more 8mm Mauser.
