Hydraulic deprimer

[KotKotofeich]

Yes, it's stainless.

I tried the wood dowel before - the wood splinters very fast and I was running into the same problem as with the method described in the video silverfoxdj posted. I had trouble keeping the brass and the 'plunger' coaxial. Lot's of water spraying, nothing getting decapped and the neck eventually getting bent. I freely admit that it may have been just me... there's a Russian saying about hands not growing out of the proper place

In this tool there is an internal lip that keeps the plunger from touching the case at all.

When I reload I actually enjoy the process. Before I got this tool reloading berdan rifle brass was a pain in the neck, now it's kinda fun

 

[redruns]

I agree that it is the process that is rewarding.

Are you replacing with a berdan primer or drilling the pocket for a central flash hole?

 

[KotKotofeich]

If I was to get into reloading this cal, I'd probably do it in stages in quantity's of a few hundred at a time. I'd probably spend a night during each step of the process.

Yeah, I expect that's what I'll do. Tonight I was just trying it out, though I couldn't stop and ended up depriming 200 pieces.

It's unfortunately not cheap - I paid just under 55 dollars with shipping (2000 rub for the tool and 718 rub for shipping plus whatever evil (FRAUD ALERT) charged me to make the transfer) which took 10 days.

I'm using the Dominion berdan primers from Canada Ammo and if the XCR tosses the cases somewhere weird, I don't have to worry about trying to find them, other people always leave piles of steel berdan cases for me

This guy makes these tools for other calibers and I will probably get one for 8mm mauser too.

 

[bcnorth]

I also hydraulic deprime. I first full length size with no neck die. Then I use a larger die with a cut off 308 neck die installed. You need a water catch under your press but it's fast and easy.

 

[geotndtwine]

Not for all but if you have access to a lathe with two drill bits you can convert berdan to boxer(or you can do it with a drill press just slower). I bought a box of surplus 7.5swiss and convert them on my lathe yah its more work but once you have it done the reloading is super slick, plus sometimes the oddity of finding berdan primers at least it was difficult years ago.
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?143855-Converting-Berdan-primer-pockets-to-Boxer