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Do you have one hole in the middle of the primer pocket (boxer), or two smaller ones, side by side (berdan).
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Do you have one hole in the middle of the primer pocket (boxer), or two smaller ones, side by side (berdan).
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I have started to reload for my .308, and I get all huffle-puff every time I come across a piece of boxer primed brass in the midts of otherwise useful berdan primed brass.
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I tend to use commercial ammo in this gun to avoid berdan primers.
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With the corrosive berdan primers, even that is not much of a risk.
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The American "berdan pan" is a slowly-running one-ball mill equipped with a circular ecliptic track, whereby the mill shell rotates and the ball remains in the deepest portion of the track where it floats on the mercury.
15.1 Amalgam press 1993
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Steel case, berdan primers, primer and bullet/neck sealed.
Latest Articles Gun Talk Radio 2010
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Of course, that's lacquered steel case, berdan primed, corrosive, yadda yadda yadda.
Latest Articles 2009
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Very little. 30-06 and whatever left behind, and most of that is berdan-primed stuff.
Irons in the Fire 2009
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Stacie Nevadomski Berdan and Perry Yeatman: Getting Ahead by Going Abroad 2008
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