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Offline WJM

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Dummy round collecting?
« on: December 29, 2003, 05:39:40 PM »
I collect only dummy rounds without powder and primer. Is this unusual? I don't mind if it is, I am just curious. I don't handload, so I buy regular loaded ammo from a local successfull "commercial" handloader who sells a lot of regular ammo at a large monthly Chicago area gunshow. I asked him whenever he loaded some unusual calibers I don't have, to make me a dummy round. I must have 90+, including stuff like .577 NE, .600 NE, 50-140, 450 Alaskan, etc. I must say, however, that a lot of the most interesting stuff is "Bell" brass, and not the "original" brass.

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Dummy round collecting?
« Reply #1 on: December 29, 2003, 07:14:32 PM »
Guess I'm one of the dummies that also collects dummy cartridges.   Safest way as far as I am concerned.   Just for S&G, Bell Brass (now Mast Technologies) is here in the Capitol of Sin.   Been all through the place - they tried to find some old 401 Power Mag brass for me that they used to make after Herter's went south - we tore the place apart, but nope!   So I figured out how to wildcat my own.
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