I am starting my 450 #2 NE project with my Pedersoli Kodiak double rifle. MacKool said that they have done several with no regulation needed. I am also getting 2 mercs and a leather pad . Brass first!!! I want to see one of these big bastards . Where is the best place in the US to buy these and what are the better brands? I have heard some horror stories on some brands, but can't remember which ones. Midway USA lists Bertram cases at $99.00/box of 20. Are these good cases? This will be my first NE rifle. I will be out of town till Tuesday night and will check back then.
Thanks for the help, Ghost

Use Horneber, Bertram is soft.

I have bought several pieces of brass for my 450 3 1/4" NE from Buffaloe Brothers, you mite try them

How are you going to do the rechambering? By hand, by mill or via a lathe? I forget who showed me a trick Lathe set-up for rechambering double rifles that are already soldered together. If I remember it involved casting a accraglass ring( about 1 inch thick and 4 inches in diameter) around the double barrels close to the chamber end, then with one barrel in a 60 degree center in the headstock( you drive the barrel with a 4-jaw chuck with lots of paper between the barrel and the drive jaw) and the same barrel in a 60 degree center in the tailstock, you turn the accraglass ring true with the centered barrel. You then put the trued accraglas ring in a center rest and your set-up to rechamber that barrel. You repeat the whole process again for the second barrel. That always seemed like a neat idea to me. Beats the drill press/ milling machine approach like Thompson Center did or maybe still does for their barrels. You won't wind up with an off center chamber this way.-Rob

Rob,
I understand your system and it makes since to me. I don't know anything about any of the processes first hand, as I am a Coca-Cola Manager, not a gunsmith. Mackool's Firearms in Tulsa is the place that has done some of these and I have no idea as to the method they use. Prior customers claim that their guns shoot fine and no regulation was needed. My gun is new with virgin express sights and 3 different height front blades so I feel confident that I can find the right elevation. As to point of intersection, I am as virgin as the sights. I am a good reloader though...and will have learn the rest as I go. Any help from credible people like yourself is much appreciated. I'm sure that I will have some questions as I go...It will keep everyone posted on the progress or problems of the project though...
Thanks, Ghost

I would avoid Bertram brass if possible. Heard too many stories of lousy quality control. Horneber does make it. Huntington lists it at $83/20, so you should be able to find it cheaper somewhere else.