Berdan primed, brass cased .223

[CMV]

Primer isn't staked like you see with a lot of Berdan primed stuff in brass cases. Luckily I use a Lee FL size die with a decapping pin that just pushes up instead of breaking/bending, but thought I'd throw it up as a caution for others.

No idea what brand it is. I've never seen the headstamp & can't tell what it is supposed to be other than the 223 REM part. Other than shining a light down into it, I don't know how you could tell by lust looking it is Berdan primed.

I thought all brass cased .223 w/o staked primers was Boxer - guess that was a bad assumption.

 

[kingmt]

It is hard to see in the picture but Berdan primers is normally larger then Boxer. I usally notice them by just a quick glance but I don't always look.

 

[Mccarty]

I have broken 2 decapping pins coming across the same issue. Hits especially hard when you are trying to crank through a large portion of range brass and notnexpecting it!

 

[CMV]

Kind of hard to tell just by looking at them compared to boxer primed stuff but they are slightly larger. Not enough that I'd notice while sorting brass.

 

[kingmt]

Another give away is Berdan normally have a sealant/adhesive that can be seen around the primer. Then of course looking at the flash holes.

 

[Hondo 60]

I've seen plenty of sealant/adhesive on boxer primed military crimped brass too, though.
One prime example (pun intended) is, I have 100 PMC brass waiting to be sized/deprimed.
It has a very generous dollop of red sealant on it.
And I know for sure it's boxer primed as I've already processed 100 pcs.

 

[cougar1717]

I think that is the Barnaul headstamp. It is a very common headstamp on steel cased ammo. The OP's ammo may be a brass plated bi-metal case. Primer sealer is not an indication of berdan priming. FC and LC brass (in addition to PMC and other military contractor ammo manufacturers) have primer sealer - these are boxer primed.

 

[kingmt]

I agree just saying if you see the sealer you might want to take a look.

 

[BeerSleeper]

yucky...

hopefully they're brass plated steel, that will mean the magnet test can sort them out easily.

 

[fpgt72]

Been down that road myself, another reason to like Lee.

 

[Nick93]

Looks like they are made of steel ... check close look on the 2 of the middle you can see some grey color spots. did you tumbled them before resize ? No idea who made them

Hope this helps

 

[CMV]

Just dug one out of scrap bucket. Magnet sticks.