converting Berdan primed brass - Reloading - Oz Gun Lobby

Firstly a disclaimer: this is how I have converted Berdan primed brass to accept Boxer type primers. It’s probably not be the best way, I’m sure its not the only, but it is the way I have done it. I only really ever did this conversion to see if I could, I am a hopeless tinkerer at heart. Boxer primers only come in a few sizes, but Berdan primers are from the good old days when anyone could and did make what ever they wanted. Old military Berdan .303 brass is usually a bigger primer than larg

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converting Berdan primed brass - Reloading - Oz Gun Lobby

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Berdan to Boxer conversion.

Converting Berdan primer pockets to Boxer

De-priming Berdan brass

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Converting berdan cases to use boxer primers.

Converting Berdan cases to use Boxer primers