[olfarhors]

Well actually you can only break it once.

well actually there is Duct Tape and Super Glue if you want to reassemble the pin and then break it again!!!
Duct Tape and Super Glue make most anything possible!

 

[olfarhors]

Interestingly, I ran across several nickel plated 9mm that were berdan primed from range pickup. I also have a tendency to peer into my shell casings before running them through (most of the time at any rate)...

AHH yep!
my system is when unloading the picked up brass from the range, I sit it on top of the bench/or table so as to sort, its easier to look at the size with it sitting on a flat surface than to look at every head stamp to see the size/caliber.
when you shoot a few calibers its easy to look at a case and assume its a certain size and its not.
thats how I get 40 S & W cases as they are about the same length as 38 Super and the same diameter as 10 MM.
anyway while the cases are sitting on the table/bench I simply look down into them as I am placing them in the dirty brass coffee cans for later cleaning and sizing.
2 holes are easily spotted.

 

[olfarhors]

Speaking of range pick up I picked up some brass I thought was 9mm when I got home and looked at them some were short and the headlamp says 9mm Br.c S&B. Case length 0.676 I've picked up a log of brass in the last four years and never as one of these before it does say 9mm kinda short 9mm.. Anybody have any ideas what they are.

compare it to a 380 case!!
the BR I think should be for BROWNING!
overseas the 380 goes by several head stamp designations and 9 MM Browning is one of them.