doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion German & Austrian Sporting Guns @ doublegunshop.com Joh. Springer's Erben - 1910 - 16 X 11.5mm(450 Cal

Thanks Ford & I exactly know where there might be some 5,5mm Berdan Primers , but I'd rather keep that as my parachute/ripcord last resort. I have 3 different chambers to stuff, so I wanted to make the ammo fit the toughest one & go from there.

But I will gladly try to drop by soon.

Hochachtungsvoll,

Raimey
rse

Regarding the much maligned RWS Berdan sticks of Brass by the ole >>Blue Book<<, I had zero issues pressing them into service so empirically they worked flawlessly.


Hochachtungsvoll,

Raimey
rse

Getting down to the last few loaded cartridges I inherited, so only a few more bullets to pull, I decided to press Ford's protocol of putting fire forming the sticks of brass in the equation. And only with 11 grains of Red Dot and a column of Grits, cracks or fissures still reveal themselves in the area of 9mm above the rim up to 25 mm above the rim. Therefore, @ this juncture, I really don't think the loaded cases are faltering under pressure but are just exacerbating the fine fissure as a result from converting the stick of raw brass to final form. Just a thought, but again the issue still could be 2 pronged.


Hochachtungsvoll,

Raimey
rse

Although many naysayers say why travel down this path, and several have and actually capitulated in defeat, but it has been a wild and informative ride in getting to the core issue & identifying it. As the old adage can be said, >>The Glory is in the Struggle<< and this one has been most informative. I guess adhering to the basic premise of making cases and annealing them properly is at the nexus of the actual solution. One the issue is identified, the Solution is Simple, of course. With >>Fire Forming<< being a critical component in the process, being a benchmark of sorts, to tell you where you are before you exhaust more effort on a compromised case.

Hochachtungsvoll,

Raimey
rse