.30 Carbine LC52 Berdan priming

Bill Jordan

August 21, 2011 07:28

Going through a batch of brass, I found this headstamp is Berdan. Anyone know the story behind this?

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  guntech59

  August 21, 2011 09:10

  I can't help you with that, but I found two pieces of berdan primed 5.56mm NATO brass today in a pile that a friend of mine gave me.
  
  I had no idea there was such an animal.

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  jonk

  August 21, 2011 09:24

  IIRC it is not really lake city, it's... Chinese I think? Also corrosive. Edit: Google is your friend here... it is Chinese, corrosive.

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  dcs shooters

  August 21, 2011 10:22

  I've loaded bunches of Lake City 30 carbine brass. Never found any berdan primed. You must have found some forign pieces.

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  Laredo Lefty

  August 21, 2011 22:38

  I have 1000rds of that ammo. It comes packed in gray cardboard 50 rd boxes with several of those packed together in heavy white wax treated paper.

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  Bill Jordan

  August 22, 2011 07:58

  So is it Chinese? Made at the direction of their version of the CIa to leave at the scene of a massacre and blame it on the US?

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  richarda

  August 23, 2011 06:29

  Close. Made by chicoms to supply their marxist insurgents in places like S. Phillipines (where US arms common), while retaining deniability.
  
  They made steel-case copper-washed berdan-primed 7.62 NATO w/ fake british Radway Green markings for use in Malasia.

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  richarda

  August 23, 2011 06:31

  Oh, also, there is at least one other kind of Berdan-primed .30 carbine - French military, for use in all the free carbines we gave them near end of WWII.

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  62fuelie

  August 23, 2011 13:08

  Regarding any possible corrosive in the .30 carbine round, one of the primary specs when the carbine was adopted was that the ammunition HAD to be non-corrosive because the captive short-stroke piston could not be cleaned effectively in field use. I would recommend against using any of this if you have any.

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