Port Surplus

[MassMark]

Hi gang! I just blasted through a battlepack of Port Surplus and was curious if it's able to be reloaded. I saved the brass as I'm stockpiling for a future press purchase and was curious. While I'm at it, can you entertain a reloading newbie question by guiding me as to exaclty how to tell if brass is reload worthy? Thanks!

 

[EddieCoyle]

Two important things:

It must be brass, and it must be Boxer-primed; if so, it's reloadable. If you had any neck splits on the first firing, I'd scrap the whole lot.

Other than that, go on reputation (ask around, like you're doing) and experience. Any time I come across some brass with a new headstamp, I separate it and load it, and carefully check the results.

 

[FalArAk]

My friend that reloads .308 doesn't use Port,I think because it's Berdan primed.

 

[MassMark]

After 35 years of shooting, I am asking what now must be the dumbest question I have ever asked. Perhaps ignorance was bliss all these years, but here goes: gulp: How can I tell if it's Beridan or Boxer? I'm sitting here staring at a 69 Lake City and yesterdays Port and I'm having a hard time figuring it out...

 

[Big Daddy 45acp]

After 35 years of shooting, I am asking what now must be the dumbest question I have ever asked. Perhaps ignorance was bliss all these years, but here goes: gulp: How can I tell if it's Beridan or Boxer? I'm sitting here staring at a 69 Lake City and yesterdays Port and I'm having a hard time figuring it out...

Look into the case, you need good light.

1 flash hole=boxer

2 holes=berdan

 

[MassMark]

Look into the case, you need good light.

1 flash hole=boxer

2 holes=berdan

Thanks, I feel better now and you jogged my memory at the same time. EddieCoyle explained that to me at the Pumpkin Shoot - I must have been high from .500 S&W gas...

 

[calsdad]

Apparently it is possible to reload Berdan primed brass. I found a few articles on doing it while trying to figure out if reloading was possible for the 7.5x55 Swiss stuff that I have.

Here are a few articles on the surplusrifle.com site:

http://www.surplusrifle.com/shooting2005/berdanreloading/index.asp


There are others out there if you search.

 

[rscalzo]

While you can reload Berdan brass, it's a pain and Berdan primers are pretty much impossible to find. I throw my brass in the club's brass recycling bucket for sale to the scrap yard.