WARNING
Only you are responsible for your own safety. This is a proof of concept video
not an instructional video. You are advised not to attempt this.
These steel cases for the most part have been deemed unreloadable people
although i've heard that some people have done it.
The biggest hurdle that most people run into
is the berdan primers.
These use two offset flash holes instead of one central hole,
that causes major issues depriming.
because in your traditional die set the depriming pin comes down the center.
There are some special tools out there that you can use to pry these primers
out
but we're going to keep things simple and cheap here.
first thing you need
is a drill
with a bit that's slightly larger
than your primer
so we're going to take our piece of wood and drill a hole
this is not rocket science you need to make the hole slightly bigger than the
primer because when the primer pops out it's going to go down through the hole
'cause it needs a place to go
try to drill it straight,
it can do nothing but help
the next thing that we're going to do is we're gonna chase this hole
with a bit that's big enough to fit this whole case into
i'm gonna need to do this on the drill press because
my trusty little black & decker here
won't chuck the large bit into it
you need to make sure when drilling it that you don't go too far through the plank
you only want to go far enough to hold the steel case
so i went about half way
all right so here we are with our plank of wood, next step go out and fire a bunch
of steel case ammo then crawl around on the ground and collect your cases before they rust
what we're gonna do is go ahead and fill with water
we're going to take our trusty tool, put it in there like that
What you should end up with is a deprimed case.
So we've deprimed about five.
There's one of our primers, the rest of them are in this hole here, we can poke them out with a
toothpick
collect a bunch of them up
The next thing we need to do is dry them because they are steel cases
we don't want to rust.
okay so here's where things get different
our case prep is gonna change from what was normally one-step
two three individual steps
normally we would run our brass
up through the die,
it would punch out the primer,
full length size the case
and then expand the neck
but here we have already done the depriming
and
because of the difference in the brass
being that our
regular brass has a hole in the middle
for this pin to punch the primer
our berdan
primed cases don't have the center hole
so first thing we need to do is size the case we're going to have to remove our center
mandrel. Because our steel is a lot harder than brass we're going to go and
need to lube it up really good
Do now that our case is lubed up we just run it up through the die
like we would a regular brass one.
Case is sized.
all right now that we full-length sized our cases we need to go ahead and do the
neck sizing (expanding) which means we need to put the mandrel back in.
now the key here
is to run
the mandrel
through the neck
but remember this pin is going to bottom on the bottom of the case so you don't
wanna force it.
just like that
when you feel the decapping pin bottom out you're done
at this point
you just need to wipe all the lube off the case
now we need to modify a large rifle primer to fit
the
priming arm on your single stage press works great as a operating table for
this
i'm gonna use a pin to pry out the anvil
in this primer
i found the best way to do this it is to put my fingernail over one end of the
primer to hold it down
get a pin under the anvil and just pry up and it comes loose.
at that point it can be tipped up out.
now there's a piece of paper attached to the back of the anvil
and i like to peel that off
like that
and put it back into
the primer cup
then I just tamp it down with this pin
and we've got a finished primer ready to go
take our case
push it down on
the primer should fit in there
decently snug
it's not going to go anywhere
on to our next step
to make sure that the primer stays seated
I'm just applying the tiniest little
drop of super glue
and you can see when the super glue goes on it
creeps down into the little crevasses around the primer
and then you can just take a towel and wipe it off
so here's our ten reprimed cases with
boxer large rifle primers
you can see it that the primers are a different
than the original
ammo
this is a new round of
the TulAmmo
in the same cases as this
and this has the brass colored primer in it
where as these are the silver ones that we just installed.
I'm going to go ahead and mark each of these
so that
i know
what they are
and don't accidentally confuse them with anything else
like that
now we're ready to go ahead and uh... put our powder charges in
Ok, now we're ready to go ahead and seat our bullets.
now one thing to keep in mind when doing this
is that 7.62 bullets aren't quite as easy to come by
as 308 bullets.
so your die set will come with
... at least
the Lee die set comes with your
mandrel for 7.62 and another one for 308
so you could
adjust your neck sizes for 308 bullets
you may suffer a small amount of accuracy because the bullets just a hair
smaller
but it will work
so now we're going to go ahead and uh...
load them up
and get ready to go out and shoot 'em!
All right, here's out steel case reloads
It's about negative 8 degrees out right now so I hope to make this quick.
They all went off...
Good to go!