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