Megawatt maker
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PPU makes and sells some nice 54R boxer brass. It's fairly cheap, and it's still can be had.Until recently and like most everyone else I also believe in loading for almost everything I own. I started reloading with the 44 spl / Mag and it's the only pistol cartridge I loaded for. I have a bunch of factory 9mm but brass is cheap and I'll probably find a few more Herters Dies online I can't live w/o anyway since I upgraded from a pair of single stage presses to a Lyman All-American 8 turrent press.
I do reload for all my milsurp rifles but I do have a few that I'm always on the lookout for brass for that I would like to load for more often, the 6.5 Jap & the 30/40 Krag. Now that I think about it there is one rifle cartridge that I never did load for that I finally ended up selling that particular rifle over cuz I never could find a projectiles for the damn thing. That Oddball 6.5 Italian Carcano with a .268 bore ?. Granted it looked just like a miniature Mosin but no one made the oddball bullets for it, Graf's does very sporadically but haven't in a while and they sell out almost immediately. And there is one outfit here in Idaho that said they could make me a custom Luber Sizer die to load for it but I decided it was going to be too big of a pain in the ass so I sold it to a pawn shop and bought a bunch of 6.5 Swede & 54R brass instead.
Also for a little variation I never did reload berdan primed 54R brass, but I did find some intriguing tutorials and videos on converting from berdan to boxer w/ a 1/4" drill bit , 1/4" Copper tubing & a primer pocket swager on the press that is definitely worth a try.
I only load for my 91/30 PU. I hate running corrosive ammo in it. The PSL I dont load for. Just shoot spam can through it and scub immediately
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