ATAShooter
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I was at the range... A fellow was shooting surplus 308 that was Berdan primed ( I think thats what they are called when they have 2 small flash holes in bottom, it did, I looked), anyway, He said he runs them thru a std full length sizer to decap them:confused, knocks off primer pocket burs then reloads them.... Now, I ain't the sharpest knife in the drawer, but if there's no center flash hole for the decapper to go thru, how in the heck does he punch the primer out using a std full length Lee die? The reason I ask, is that he was trying to actually be nice and give me some cases, but I told him I wasn't equipped to reload berdan, That's when he told me the stuff above. I just don't see it happening using a std full length lee die to decap it, yet he swears he's done it for years. Now, if you go to an extreme, and say, punch a hole with the die, how could you get proper primer seat depth? I'm bumfizzled on this one...