Bmt85 wrote:I bet if you look through your decamped primers you’ll find one with a thin metal ring around it. That would be from them drilling through the old primer so they could use it as a sleeve to hold the boxer primer. I played around with converting Yugo M67 (7.62x39) brass for a bit. It worked but not that well. Problem is getting the “sleeves” to stay put.
I like smart solutions a lot. Drilling out the old primer to make a sleeve for the smaller Boxer primers kills two birds with one stone. The problem with any of these types of bright ideas is touch labor. In the case of .223 brass, that's a lot of touch labor to convert a case that you can pick up once fired for a few pennies.
Its kinda like when I tried my hand at swaging annealed 40 S&W cases, pouring molten lead into them and swaging them down and running them through several stages of sizing die to make 450b bullets. I did it to do proof of concept, shot a few times at 50 yds and said the heck with that. I kept a couple to show doubting Thomas' and it was fun working through the challenges, I even fluxed the cases to bond the cores
but on my slowest day, I got a ton of better things to do with my time than produce a compromise bullet.
However, to each his own.
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