7.5X55 swiss

That's the thing about surplus ammo, when it's gone, it's gone. It isn't going to come back at the fire sale prices.

In some cases, this means that you will have to reload, if you can find proper primers or if after market brass is produced.

The 7.5x55 Swiss is easy to reload because boxer primed brass and standard large rifle primers, along with a plethora of .308 bullets are usually available.

The same thing has happened in the past with all sorts of ammo, 303Brit/30-06/7.62x51/6.5x55/455Webly/8x57 to name a few.

Some people are just under the impression that this stuff will be available forever. No such luck.
 
If you didn't get any on the cheap (~$280-$300 per 480 round carton), then you are better off hand loading.
I've tried swaging and cutting out the anvil to convert the GP90 brass to boxer primers, and it was a fair amount of work with varying degrees of somewhat success.

Alternatively, PPU brass is pretty decent.
 
beltfed said:
If you didn't get any on the cheap (~$280-$300 per 480 round carton), then you are better off hand loading.
I've tried swaging and cutting out the anvil to convert the GP90 brass to boxer primers, and it was a fair amount of work with varying degrees of somewhat success.

Alternatively, PPU brass is pretty decent.
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The Berdan primers that Canada Ammo had and maybe still does, work quite well.

I made up a two prong punch to knock out the dead primers from the case, with a hammer, over a base on my bench, with a hole for the spent primers.

When I size the milsurp cases, which are very good, I just take the decapping pin out of the stem, but leave the neck sizer ball in place. Of course, I still back off the stem.

The brass used by the Swiss for their GP11 ammunition is very good.

I've got close to ten reloads on 60 unaltered Berdan primed cases

I was using an RCBS Berdan decapper tool, but it's a pain in the butt/hand. Fine if you're only doing 20-30 cases at a time but it's god awful slow.

Before I got the Berdan primers from Canada Ammo, North Sylva was my go to supply business.

I have several obsolete cartridges that I hand load for. In some cases it's just a labor of love, because I just like shooting old transition type rifles, such as the 8mm Kropatschek. The rifles were built by Steyr and in VG+ condition, inside and out. They shoot very well. Smooth as oiled glass actions with fitting that would make modern firearms builders blush if they were compared side by side.
 
IF you you can't find anything else you can use 284Win cases, if you can find it. A little extra work to expand the neck and full length size in 7.5x55 dies. Strong press required.
 
While we can no longer access surplus GP11 as the Swiss government would rather destroy it, we do have a shipment of Swiss made boxer brass coming in Aug/Sept
 
FYI, Bowmacgunpar only deals in commercial sales so you won't be able to purchase directly from them. You have to find a local dealer to order for you.
 
Shooting Centre said:
While we can no longer access surplus GP11 as the Swiss government would rather destroy it, we do have a shipment of Swiss made boxer brass coming in Aug/Sept
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Good that you are bringing in!

Swiss don't destroy ammo, they shoot it. I've got family there and GP11 is their most popular round at the range. Everyone there has K31s and many Stg57s

I thought that the last GP11 ammo came from the restocking of their bunker networks in 2007-2008
 
Ruag is conglomerated with RWSfor a few years now.
https://www.ruag.com/en/products-services/land/hunting-sports-ammunition/rws

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