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.500 A-Sq Original Brass, Should I Buy?

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18 July 2001, 04:39
Nitroman
.500 A-Sq Original Brass, Should I Buy?
The title says it all, I have found a couple of wallets of the original A-Square brass for the .500. Should I bother? I doubt seriously I will ever go to Africa and the only reason would be to have some cartridges that actually say, ".500 A-Square", on the bottom instead of, ".460 Weatherby". The cost is $40.00 for 10 cases in the wallet.
Opinions appreciated.
18 July 2001, 04:44
GeorgeS
$4 a case sounds high. Try to get them for $2.50 each.

George

18 July 2001, 05:55
<bongo500>
will soon be available again from owlnet.com/quality... I hope.
18 July 2001, 10:13
<Allan>
If you dont have a-square brass,I would have bought them,but the Norma 460wm is a better buy.The a-square brass is bad(spiking of 500a-square).The 460 brass you have to form and then fireform,but its still a better choice.
18 July 2001, 13:05
500grains
My A2 brass is soft as a dog turd.

I recommend necking up Norma 460 Wby.

19 July 2001, 06:22
Nitroman
This is what I was actually thinking. All of my ~250 cases are Norma.
If anyone wants this brass you can call Great Nothern Guns (907) 563-3006 in Ancorage and buy.
Thanks for the opinions. By the way they do have some other brass and loaded ammo including some for double-rifle. I do not remember all the guy quickly quoted me.
24 July 2001, 18:29
470 Mbogo
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Roger Rothschild:
Hi Roger,
If your tired of brass with the 460 Weatherby headstamp for your 500 A-Square order some of Mast Technologies 378/460 Weatherby cylindrical brass without the headstamp. The brass is very good. I had problems with my A-Square brass being soft and locking up my gun at 2200 fps velocity. 470 Mbogo
15 July 2007, 06:54
IanD
Maybe a silly question, but are we talking about Weatherby headstamped brass or specifically Norma?
16 July 2007, 00:53
Brad aka Pill Shooter
470 MBOGO

How much did you pay for your cylindrical brass from Mast technologies???

Thanks Brad dancing
16 July 2007, 01:04
RIP
Brad,
Note the date in 2001 on that post?

MAST is gone. Maybe some leftover stock scattered here and there could be found, but ... where to start looking???

Jamison International would be the maker using some of their old machines and a bunch more new machines.

I will soon be contacting Jamison about .416 Rigby cylindrical brass for various uses.

I don't know if he does the 460Wby cylindrical basic like MAST used to.

Quality Cartridge would be a good place to start looking for that (or headstamped 500 A-Square brass), or does Norma ever turn loose any basic brass???
16 July 2007, 02:07
Brad aka Pill Shooter
Rip:

Send Rich aka Idaho Sharp Shooter a message he has already obtained some 416 cylindrical from Marc he may be able to hep you.

Thanks

Brad
16 July 2007, 06:19
RIP
Brad,
I've got some for now. I mean big quantities next. I have visited in person with Marc Jamison several times, when I was working in South Dakota, toured his plant. He is the real deal, has the right stuff.