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saab-bob · 01-30-2012, 03:48 PM

Rich
The Prvi 30 Mauser works really good in my C96.
Long ago I did what you are doing,only I disassembled some old 50's Tokarev ammo.
At the time there was alot of this cheap military surplus ammo around. You had to be careful though. Some was for the pistols and some was for the Russian PPSH 41 submachine gun . If you fired the Sub gun ammo in your C96,it would blow apart! Trust me on this one!
These where the days before the Prvi and the Fiocchi was available.
That ammo was very hard to pull apart. It had been heavily case crimped and they used Berdan primers,so it was corrosive.
The powder was greenish flakes.
The idea was same as yours, to reload with a lighter (and better)powder charge.Thank goodness at about this time,Starline came out with 30 Mauser casings with standard primers. So I loaded a few Toke bullets in those,it worked great.
I gave the rest of the Tokerev ammo to a brave soul for his TT pistol.

Bob

01-30-2012, 03:48 PM	#6
saab-bob User Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: So Cal Posts: 459 Thanks: 774 Thanked 143 Times in 87 Posts	Rich The Prvi 30 Mauser works really good in my C96. Long ago I did what you are doing,only I disassembled some old 50's Tokarev ammo. At the time there was alot of this cheap military surplus ammo around. You had to be careful though. Some was for the pistols and some was for the Russian PPSH 41 submachine gun . If you fired the Sub gun ammo in your C96,it would blow apart! Trust me on this one! These where the days before the Prvi and the Fiocchi was available. That ammo was very hard to pull apart. It had been heavily case crimped and they used Berdan primers,so it was corrosive. The powder was greenish flakes. The idea was same as yours, to reload with a lighter (and better)powder charge.Thank goodness at about this time,Starline came out with 30 Mauser casings with standard primers. So I loaded a few Toke bullets in those,it worked great. I gave the rest of the Tokerev ammo to a brave soul for his TT pistol. Bob __________________ "I think,therefore I own guns"