Ross
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Lee's new press is set up for 1¼" dies. Lee is up to their necks in press orders, and are a bit behind in their .577Snider and .577-.450 Martini Henry dies thay may be proprietary to Mom's Old Guns (Google had 6 hits.) in Colorado.
Coyoté over at Mom's has been converting 24 ga CBC to 209 shotshell primers. They are about $2.25 each. Kynamco has just started selling ammo. Turned cases are available. Bertram lists drawn cases at $83.00 and $92.00 respectively for 20. I have not found Bell basic recently, but it is the best I have used. I bet the new Kynamco is perhaps even better.
Old Western Scrounger sells the excellent Brazilian CBC 24 and 32 ga brass for under a dollar each. Problem: all but the 12ga is Berdan primed with a short shotshell primer, presently available only from CBC (#56)
Once you have a case, you can reload for a long time without dies if you clock your brass. Some Martinis seem to lock up out of square, but if the case is reoriented correctly it will continue to give yoeman duty until Lee's *relatively* inexpensive dies are available.
The recent importation from Nepal is bound to stir up a flurry of interest in these great relics.
Cheers from Darkest California,
Ross
Coyoté over at Mom's has been converting 24 ga CBC to 209 shotshell primers. They are about $2.25 each. Kynamco has just started selling ammo. Turned cases are available. Bertram lists drawn cases at $83.00 and $92.00 respectively for 20. I have not found Bell basic recently, but it is the best I have used. I bet the new Kynamco is perhaps even better.
Old Western Scrounger sells the excellent Brazilian CBC 24 and 32 ga brass for under a dollar each. Problem: all but the 12ga is Berdan primed with a short shotshell primer, presently available only from CBC (#56)
Once you have a case, you can reload for a long time without dies if you clock your brass. Some Martinis seem to lock up out of square, but if the case is reoriented correctly it will continue to give yoeman duty until Lee's *relatively* inexpensive dies are available.
The recent importation from Nepal is bound to stir up a flurry of interest in these great relics.
Cheers from Darkest California,
Ross
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