Reloading 5.45

[Dingo]

Google seems to give differing opinions on this. The general concensus that I'm reading is that there is zero commercially available brass (unless you want to pay $3 per case from Buffalo Arms), and that everything will have to be ghetto-rigged to work. Like resizing .222 Rem brass and .224 bullets. Or reloading steel cases with jury-rigged boxer conversions (or trying to find berdan primers). The last prospect is too bubba for me to try to fumble my way through it. The first sounds plausible, but expensive. Anybody else have any suggestions? Anybody attempted this before?

[Cthulhu]

Tag. I want to see if there's any way to do this that could possibly be cheaper than the surplus stuff but I can't imagine there is.

[Hoser]

Berdan primed brass is a huge pain in the ass to work with. Not worth it if you value your time and sanity.

[dwalker460]

I know there are some guys using the 222 cases and swaging down bullets, but its a fairly involved process.

[spqrzilla]

Its kinda the opposite of the point of having a 5.45x39 rifle...