I am in the market of buying a reloading press where i can reloaded 8-bore to 2-bore cartridges.Can anyone help me.

Don't have a clue as to what you're talking about but the Redding Ultramag is probably the largest, strongest reloading press going.

Where you gonna get dies and shell holders?

Any .50 Browning press should be able to handle what you want to do. You will most likely have to adapt the die threads from 1 1/2" to the 1 1/4" standard. You also will have shellholder size issues. For that you will have to make something, or else have it made. I don't know of anyone who makes shellholder adapters from .50 Browning to the standard size shellholder. Bill T.

The RCBS AmmoMaster is designed for 50BMG rounds & can be had w/ std. shell holder ram. It was my choice for the larger African rounds. RCBS can probably provide shell holders for you as well.

Forrester co-ax!! hands down, after 25 years it is still going strong..

Look at Corbin's presses

Well, the Lee guys haven't shown up yet.

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Originally posted by SR4759:
Look at Corbin's presses

If my CH-"H" press ever gave up the ghost, I'd be all over a Corbin like a fly on do-do. I view the Corbin as THE best press available today.. However, YMMV.
My CH-"H" press:

A Co-Ax is the best single stage press, but it can't handle the big cartridges due to the larger than standard die size required for the big cases. Special jaw plates would also need to be made, which is doable but being limited to 7/8 inch dies makes it a non-starter for the 8 to 2 bore cartridge cases.

Redding's Ultramag is a good press and takes 1 1/4 x 12 dies, but the RCBS Ammo-master is even bigger and handles the 50 BMG with ease and uses 1 1/2 inch dies which would be preferable for a 2 bore sizing die.

If it won't fit in a co-ax, maybe this is your best bet?

Ponsness/Warren 50BMG press:



Andy

In the back of my fading memory it seems to me that "Old Western Scrounger" in ?California? sells (or sold) a press that was capeable of sizing up to ?20mm? brass (using a screw-in insert). You may want to check them out.

Thank you for the information,but i still confess which press would be better then RCBS Ammomaster as far as dealing with the 4-bore cartridge? maybe i need help with the pick and the best for a budget pick.

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Originally posted by Winchester 69:
Well, the Lee guys haven't shown up yet.

Well, I have a few large presses including the Lee Classic.
Dollar-wise the classic is pretty unbeatable for a large single stage.

http://www.leeprecision.com/cg...catalog/classic.html

Try PM`ing hubel458 he works with some very large cartridges like the ones you want to load.

Try Walnut Hill he's Corbin bother.

http://rceco.com/MN.asp?pg=MetalWHill

BTH

I stopped by Dillons during the NRA convention, and they were working on a large single stage 50 BMG press. Don't know if it is available or a prototype, but you might want to give them a call.

any BMG press, with the ammomaster being my personal fav .

Guys, please stop recommending "Regular" press .. the 4" is nominally 1" in diameter for the BULLETS, and will have to be in a 1.25 or 1.5" DIES ..


i have this press .. while its great, it will only do 7/8 dies.. the DIE would rattle around in the case of a 4 bore.. the whole press would fit in a 2 bore (LOL)

Look, this is way larger than the common current sporting calibers in North America... I am afraid my fellow posters are way short on idea of size to which you refer. 12 guage, that is 12 lead balls of equal size to a pound-AV, is .770... I think. I believe Lachmiller had dies for up to 10 guage that would would in the Rockchucker press with the insert out... After that the dies get too thin.

POINT: As suggested, both the corbins: Dave/corbins.com and Richard/rceco.com make a semi custom press--series of presses, with or without hydraulics, that can be had with a bar adaptor to any size die you care to pay for. They also make dies.

Any machine shop could do this work for you, but the "development costs" add up where the corbins have probably done it before a number of times. Or you can have the dies adapted to any arbor press of adequate size, or hydraulic press or ???

I'd email the corbins. Luck.

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12 guage, that is 12 lead balls of equal size to a pound-AV, is .770...

.775 is 10 bore ... .729 is 12 bore ...

BORE SIZES

Solution:

1) Buy a Hornady BMG press.

2) Remove the top plate.

3) True the edges parallel

4) Indicate the existing 1.5"-12 threaded hole.

5) Re-thread to 2"-12.

6) Call Dave at CH4D and order your dies.

Photo of mine shown with custom priming insert, 2-Bore, and 460 Weatherby cases.

Also have reducer bushings so I can use standard dies. CH4D has the bigger ones.

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Originally posted by Macifej:
Also have reducer bushings so I can use standard dies. CH4D has the bigger ones.

That is an interesting primer punch arrangement. What size do your 2-bore cases use? 209? .50 BMG? Something else?

Very nice, clean-looking, press.

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Originally posted by Alberta Canuck:

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Originally posted by Macifej:
Also have reducer bushings so I can use standard dies. CH4D has the bigger ones.

That is an interesting primer punch arrangement. What size do your 2-bore cases use? 209? .50 BMG? Something else?

Very nice, clean-looking, press.

CCI #35 - BMG

Need to re-enamel the machined edges of the top plate some time.

Jay,
Nice.
I see that Hornady has made a faithful imitation of the RCBS AmmoMaster.

A warning on the Lee Classic Cast cheapie:
That brass-parted linkage stripped out on a trial with the .730" lead slug sizer die.
Lee did a good job of the sizer.
The press is no good.

The RCBS AmmoMaster does everything for me except accept 1.25"x12tpi dies.
The AmmoMaster handles 1.5"x12tpi with no bushing, and I have bushings for 1" and 7/8" dies.

I am using an RCBS Rock Chucker with no bushing, for the 1.25" dies.

No doubt the Corbin Mighty Mite press is hell for stout and the best thing short of hydraulics.
I want one of those!

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Originally posted by RIP:
A warning on the Lee Classic Cast cheapie:
That brass-parted linkage stripped out on a trial with the .730" lead slug sizer die.
Lee did a good job of the sizer.
The press is no good.

+1

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No doubt the Corbin Mighty Mite press is hell for stout and the best thing short of hydraulics.
I want one of those!

I have a press design that's been sitting here for 4 years. Never built em cause too expensive and most guys don't need the strength or precision of a $1500 press.

"Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand and I can move the world."

Archimedes?

Correction, not "Mighty Mite," I meant:

Corbin CSP-2 MEGA-MITE
Reloading/Swaging Press

I think it is cheaper than Jay's homebuilt one, and weighs a mere 70 pounds! (without the stand made for it):

http://www.corbins.com/pr-csp2.htm




More Archimedes: "Eureka!" (jumps out of bath tub and runs naked to the laboratory/reloading room)



Holy cow!
I have finally found a 1.25"x12tpi-to-1.5"x12tpi bushing!
Corbin makes it.
Precision timed so the internal and external threads do not "peak-and-trough together,"
makes for best use of the mere .25" wall, .125" for each set of threads, and made of hardened steel.
I did not know it was possible, though have heard from one lone voice previously that it could be done.
"Show me!" (says Missouri mule/jackass)
"I have been shown!" (Hee-haw!)
Will convert the AmmoMaster to 1.25"x12tpi from 1.5"x12tpi.

The hole in the top of the Mega-Mite is 1.5"x12tpi, so Jay would have to modify that one for 2-bore also.

Mega-Mite also has a short roller handle besides the "Archimedes" long lever.

The CSP-2 is good stuff. It can be ordered with a 2"-12 top plate too! I believe it's around $1200.00 with the stand.

Just under $1500 for the press ($998) and stand $489), Dec. 2008 price list.
I forgot to see what the freight would be.
Good for you on the 2" hole.

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Originally posted by RIP:
Just under $1500 for the press ($998) and stand $489), Dec. 2008 price list.
I forgot to see what the freight would be.
Good for you on the 2" hole.

I can build em better for less money. Maybe I'll get a couple done for show & tell ...