We recently saw a (still running) thread about the atrocious quality of Bertram cases for the 8x58 RD. An unfinished product that will break after usage, because the crooks who produce it do not care to finish the work-hardened reformed cartridge case (by annealing) but leave that to the buyers. In any other field, customers would kick such businessmen's behinds; here, reloaders are apparently happy to show off that they are knowledgeable enough to remedy what should have been done already and for what they have paid.
One must therefore look for alternatives. Dieter Horneber ( http://www.huelsen-horneber.de/ ) is one such alternative (of usually high repute), but situated in Germany and thus faraway from the US market.
There is Starline who after their initial shady salesmanship and less-than-trustworthy promises (but that was back in the 1990s) have since long acquired a decent reputation. But I do not know whether they make the 8x58 RD.
A family-operated business right in the US of A that apparently has been working for many years is Gad Custom Cartridges: http://gadcustomcartridges.com/ .
They offer the 8x58 RD at a remarkably low price: $ 20.00 for 20 loaded rounds, $ 10.00 for 20 cases.
Now, who has aleady had experiences with them? Is the rim properly thinned (since the case seems made out of .45-xx basic cases), is the case long enough, is it correctly annealed?
Carcano
One must therefore look for alternatives. Dieter Horneber ( http://www.huelsen-horneber.de/ ) is one such alternative (of usually high repute), but situated in Germany and thus faraway from the US market.
There is Starline who after their initial shady salesmanship and less-than-trustworthy promises (but that was back in the 1990s) have since long acquired a decent reputation. But I do not know whether they make the 8x58 RD.
A family-operated business right in the US of A that apparently has been working for many years is Gad Custom Cartridges: http://gadcustomcartridges.com/ .
They offer the 8x58 RD at a remarkably low price: $ 20.00 for 20 loaded rounds, $ 10.00 for 20 cases.
Now, who has aleady had experiences with them? Is the rim properly thinned (since the case seems made out of .45-xx basic cases), is the case long enough, is it correctly annealed?
Carcano