Berdan primers

[cavemanforester]

Ok folks, I know its in here somewhere, but is there a way to convert berdan primed brass to boxer?

 

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I don't think that there is any way. As in, the militery brass you have two small flash holes in the case. If you were to drill a regular flash hole in the military case it would be oversized, as there would now be three flash holes in the primer pocket. This would lead to having a flash back of hot gases blowing out the primer and sending hot gases back into your face. I do believe that I read this in a reloading manual. The flash hole has to be a certain size only.
Now if you could silver solder the primer pocket in, and if you had the right sized drill bits you might be able to do it, but I wouldn't recommend it as the pimer pockets are a vital part of the case, must be the right size and depth and the correct size flash hole!

 

[ants]

Oh, yes, your answer is here in this Handloading subforum.

Several times a year.

More answers (and better answers) than you're likely to get on this thread.
You just gotta look for it.

 

[RedAlert]

I gotta say "ants" you are a real help to relative newcomers.

Your statement translates to me as: "Don't bother us unless you have done a search first!"

The smiley face didn't take the sting out either.

Don't bother to reply, I'll do a search.

OP, here is one link:
http://users.ameritech.net/mchandler/primer.html

and here is another:
http://parallaxscurioandrelicfirear...5275/t/Berdan-to-Boxer-Conversion-Method.html

 

[Afy]

Actually unless the brass is rare, i wouldnt bother.

 

[snuffy]

No. The large berdan primer is just enough bigger that a large rifle/pistol boxer primer is way too loose.

The suggestion of silver soldering was an extremely bad one. That much heat on the base of any brass case would render it too soft to contain the firing pressure. A ruptured case would be the result.

 

[five.five-six]

I looked into it.. seems like a real PITA, there are sights dedicated to reloading that stuff, one guy has a hydraulic thingamajob.. it's like a die, you fill the case with water and then wack it with a hammer and it pops the primer out

IMO the big advantage of reloading Berdan is that you can make non corrosive ammo, all I shoot is a mosin and Windex down a hot barrel fallowed by a dry patch fixes that

 

[1911pewpew]

http://users.ameritech.net/mchandler/primer.html