Not rare, but the owner had to make all his reloadable cases. It cost him quite a bit of money to import the dies.
Anything with the .473 case head size like the .308, 8x57mm, 30.06 worked, but he had to individually cut, form, trim and, I think, neck turn each case.
Factory ammo, except for a few surplus military rounds, was impossible to get.
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