where would you find ammo for a 1907-15 berthiea
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Brass is not the issue, the issue would be in finding nice Balle D or Balle N FMJ projectiles in .327" or .328".
I typically use pulled Swede 214gr .323" projectiles with acceptable accuracy in SOME of my French rifles, but properly sized projectiles without having to mess with cast boolits would be tops.
I typically use pulled Swede 214gr .323" projectiles with acceptable accuracy in SOME of my French rifles, but properly sized projectiles without having to mess with cast boolits would be tops.
I have some milsurp ammo, but I bet it would all be duds. Worth more to a collector anyways.
You have to roll your own. Cast is the way to go, or buy the Hornady 0.329" bullets for the 8X56R, and size them down to groove size (oops - as desporterizer has already said).
You have to roll your own. Cast is the way to go, or buy the Hornady 0.329" bullets for the 8X56R, and size them down to groove size (oops - as desporterizer has already said).
Intriguing things about those French rifles: Stone Age ergonomics and design combined with the finest materials and true Craftsmanship to build wonderfully elegant rifles that you can't get ammo for!
I have 3 of them with wonderful bores, just begging to be shot. THIS Summer.....
To the OP: you will need CLIPS if you wish to fire your Berthier as a magazine rifle. The CLIP holds the cartridges together and is pushed down into the magazine; when you chamber the last round, it drops out the bottom and gets crushed into the gravel when you take a step. Being that they are VERY expensive, you carefully put a strip of masking-tape across the bottom of your magazine.
JP was good enough to tell you that TRADE-EX has the brass.
So I will tell you that LEE has dies.
TRADE-EX also has .329 bullets.
And here's the zinger: it is JP who has CLIPS!!!!
What a wonderful hobby we have!!!!!
Good luck!
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I have 3 of them with wonderful bores, just begging to be shot. THIS Summer.....
To the OP: you will need CLIPS if you wish to fire your Berthier as a magazine rifle. The CLIP holds the cartridges together and is pushed down into the magazine; when you chamber the last round, it drops out the bottom and gets crushed into the gravel when you take a step. Being that they are VERY expensive, you carefully put a strip of masking-tape across the bottom of your magazine.
JP was good enough to tell you that TRADE-EX has the brass.
So I will tell you that LEE has dies.
TRADE-EX also has .329 bullets.
And here's the zinger: it is JP who has CLIPS!!!!
What a wonderful hobby we have!!!!!
Good luck!
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