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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blitzfike" data-source="post: 2403794" data-attributes="member: 807"><p>The significant issue for you with loading the steel cased 7.62X39 rifle ammo is whether it is boxer or berdan primed. All of the steel cased ammo I have seen in that caliber is berdan primed. You can certainly reload it and can get the primers several places on line, but for me its not worth it. I have reloaded many steel cased straight walled pistol cases with no problem. A good friend reworks his steel cased ammo by drilling into the berdan primer, making a flash hole where the anvil resides in the case and inserting a boxer primer in the center of the old primer. Works for him and he uses that for some of the really hard to get stuff like 8mm lebel etc. Large rifle primer pockets are deeper than large pistol pockets. Berdan primers are normally shorter than their equivalent boxer primer. That said, it is difficult to get a large rifle boxer primer into the opening cut into a berdan  primer and have it seated to the correct depth. (Think high primers being dangerous when you slam a bolt closed.) The web area is thinner on the berdan primed cases I have checked as well making it harder to drill the pocket deeply enough for the boxer large rifle primer. David has experimented with both large and small rifle primers in those modifications. His work in that area is fascinating to me, and he is continually coming up with new ways to recycle difficult to find brass. If you approach this reloading hobby with the correct attitude and with safety in mind, it can be very rewarding. Don't be afraid to look into different ways of doing things, I don't know how many things I wouldn't be doing today if I had only known at the time that it couldn't be done...</p></blockquote><p></p>

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