With all the interest in reloading Berdan cases nowadays and the availability of new Berdan primers why couldn't someone make a hybrid primer that was Berdan size so it would fit the standard large Berdan primer pocket but contain an anvil so the integral anvil could be drilled out for easier depriming?

Follow what I am saying?  Drill out the Berdan anvil from the inside (seems easier especially if there is already a dent in the web of the case under the anvil) and knock the old primer out.

Then replace it with the new "Hybrid" Berdan sized primer with an anvil in the primer cup.  You could make homemade ones by placing an anvil from a spent large Boxer primer under a new regular Berdan primer.  

Voila!  This would give you the ability to use readily available Berdan cases and the decapping ease of Boxer primers after the initial drilling of the central flash hole.

Because that would be like the dentist going in through your asshole to pull your tooth.



A better idea would be to make berdan sized primers without the anvil built into the primer and not have to drill the anvil out of the case. We could call it....mmmm, lets see...a berdan primer.

I reload Berdan cases already so I know how to go about it.  Its just that decapping is a pain.  

I see people converting cases to Boxer due to the limited availabiity of Berdan primers and then having to glue them in place to get them to stay seated.  I don't know why when someone drills out the anvil they automatically think they have to use a boxer size primer.  

Also when you reload berdan cases with berdan primers who says you have to use the original anvil?  

By drilling out the anvil which a lot of people do so they can use boxer primers the decapping process is greatly simplified.

Combine these two schools of thought and you get berdan sized primers that don't leak with a boxer flash hole that is easy to decap.

True not everyone is going to want to drill a new flash hole, but for those willint to take the extra step and do so, they will be rewarded with much faster decapping on future relaods, and alot of guys already doing it would no longer have to glur their primers in place.

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So you're using berdan primers? I'm confused. Where do you find them?

As I recall there was a company in the 70's who made stainless steel inserts that you threaded into the base to replace the primer pocket. For example back then if you had .470NE the only ammo available was old Kynoch berdan primed. Drill case , thread, screw in insert with super glue and reload with Boxer primer  A lot of work but it kept a lot of old guns shooting that otherwise had no ammo.

that's not what they do??? news to me. it always felt like it.

Just out of sheer curiosity, what are you using to decap berdan brass that is so labor intensive.