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Vintage Nationalist Chinese 8mm Cartridge Sample
Following some effort, the tin was unsealed and several layers of cardboard were peeled off to reveal the brass cartridges therein. Almost two dozen were removed and examined. True to the description in the advertisement, "split necks" were to be expected--and over 90% had hairline cracks from neck to shoulder.
Problem? Not if you have the means to salvage ammunition for components. Use a kinetic bullet puller to extract the projectile, then dump the propellant into a fresh primed casing and seat the salvaged bullet. The former brass case may be decapped--if boxer primed--or fired in a suitable rifle as a low intensity blank and then scrapped.
Problem? Not if you have the means to salvage ammunition for components. Use a kinetic bullet puller to extract the projectile, then dump the propellant into a fresh primed casing and seat the salvaged bullet. The former brass case may be decapped--if boxer primed--or fired in a suitable rifle as a low intensity blank and then scrapped.
Category Photography / Tutorials
Species Inanimate
Size 2217 x 1662px
File Size 879.8 kB
Fun fact, you can resize and trim .30/06 brass into 8x57mm Mauser brass easily. I used to make cases for a WW2 KAR 98 that way years ago. I did the pull the bullets from cracked brass trick too - bunch of bad 7.65mm Argentine was picked up cheap and I pulled the bullets and used them for reloading .303 British. Did the same to new 7.62x39mm rounds in the early 90s for obtaining light bullets for reduced recoil .303 loads
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