Thread: Berdan 223

Hi Marty Henry,
Thanks for that re, your friend.....appreciated.
Yes the tracer experiment went well. I simply pulled the projectiles, & gently drilled into the sealer of the projectile base compound & ignited the tracer with a match which went off with a bit of a red """Whoosh"" & dumped them into some water. After drying I reloaded them back into the shells & fired them off in my Mini action Howa. The accuracy was about 40mm @ 50yds (there was a bit of a variance in projectile weight though) so they would be good enough on the goats out to 90 metres but wouldn't chance them beyond that. It was an interesting experiment & if one was hard pressed for ammo then they'd be good enough. I didn't try them on game though, so will if I come across tracers again......yea....I know....illegal to posses....etc etc but but it's amazing how one can come across such things,....& I'll try them then to see how they perform.