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OK, doing some reloading for 9mm with some brass I bought a couple of months ago here. Nice stuff and very happy. Been doing great. One of the bags I now occassionally have one that does not deprime. I don't push hard, I just take out and toss. Well I broke a depriming pin today, bent it actually, and I had a couple of them that would not deprimed. After I was done I checked them out and one was a DAG with a primer hole so small I could not get through it with my pin. The other has an L on side and Y on the other of the head stamp and then what looks like an I6 maybe centered 90 degrees out from the L & Y. It has two hole, NOT in the center but off to each side. So I have never seen these. Not sure what to say but wanted to make note to others.

There are two different priming systems in common usage. In the United States, it is most typically Boxer primed which is a single flash hole in the center. In Europe, the Berdan system is commonly used which has two holes.

Berdan-primered cases are not reloadable using the typical tools. There are people that attempt to convert by hand-drilling flash holes, but 9mm brass is so darn common and cheap I never saw the point. I just throw them in the scrap bucket.





When I sold brass, I almost always visually inspected it for Boxer brass, tossing the Berdan. If you bought that brass from me, I apologize.

BTW, DAG is "Dynamit Nobel A-G, Troisdorf, Germany, (previously Geco and DNG Gustav Genchow, Karlsruhe)"


The LY is "China North Industries Corp., (NORINCO), 7A Yue Tan Nan Jie, Beijing, Peoples Republic of China"

thanks and it was not a biggy for me. I do not remember where I got these from. I think the batch was great. I do a slow down stroke on my Dillion 1050. If I feel it hit and not give, I back off. No biggy, just the first ones I had come across now in 2 years. Great pics and info though. thanks.