perdurabo93
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So some years back I bought a spam can of Albanian 7.62x54R to shoot in my Mosin 91/30 rifle. I quickly discovered that this ammo is really prone to burst primers so I opted to pull them all down, resize the projectiles to .308" and re-use the powder for other purposes (the powder worked just like IMR 4895, BTW and performed exactly as expected). BTW I am 110% sure that these cases are BRASS and not steel. Magnets don't lie.
Anyway, so I forgot about the old berdan primed brass until a little while ago. I want to take this brass and send it to Scharch/Top Brass to get credit for their Brass Exchange program but I don't want to jump through the hoops of sending it ORM-D via UPS. The only customer center is too far away from me and isnt worth the fuel to get there, and UPS store/Pak-Mail type places will not accept ORM-D of any kind. Top Brass will credit you $2.25/lb for ANY yellow brass of any kind in any condition. I know some people take the risk and send primed brass via USPS priority, but I'm not going to take the chance as I KNOW for certain that primed brass is explicitly prohibited for shipping via USPS and I'm not going to risk everything to ship $10 worth of primed brass.
I could just pop the primers in a mosin, but I sold that rifle years ago and I don't have anything left that shoots 7.62x54R nor does anyone I know. $10 worth of brass isn't worth buying another mosin just to pop the primers and it isn't worth building some contraption to pop the primers with either. Any idea what I can do with this stuff other than just throw it away (which I'm sure is probably illegal in some way as well)? Is there an easy/fast way to pop or remove these berdan primers that doesn't actually require a rifle chambered in 7.62x54R?
Anyway, so I forgot about the old berdan primed brass until a little while ago. I want to take this brass and send it to Scharch/Top Brass to get credit for their Brass Exchange program but I don't want to jump through the hoops of sending it ORM-D via UPS. The only customer center is too far away from me and isnt worth the fuel to get there, and UPS store/Pak-Mail type places will not accept ORM-D of any kind. Top Brass will credit you $2.25/lb for ANY yellow brass of any kind in any condition. I know some people take the risk and send primed brass via USPS priority, but I'm not going to take the chance as I KNOW for certain that primed brass is explicitly prohibited for shipping via USPS and I'm not going to risk everything to ship $10 worth of primed brass.
I could just pop the primers in a mosin, but I sold that rifle years ago and I don't have anything left that shoots 7.62x54R nor does anyone I know. $10 worth of brass isn't worth buying another mosin just to pop the primers and it isn't worth building some contraption to pop the primers with either. Any idea what I can do with this stuff other than just throw it away (which I'm sure is probably illegal in some way as well)? Is there an easy/fast way to pop or remove these berdan primers that doesn't actually require a rifle chambered in 7.62x54R?