56-50 brass

[klw]

Who all is selling 56-50 brass and where can you get the best prices?

[Harve Curry]

I understand that Starline has brass available for the 56-50 Taylor Spencer.
It has a smaller rim diameter then the original 56-50, so I haven't checked any further for myself.

[Hell-Er High Water]

If you are looking for brass for the Taylor's carbine you can order direct from Starline.  Midway, Buffalo Arms and I'm sure others also carry it.  The price is better from Starline direct but their minimum order is for 250 rounds.  Midway has them available in quantites of 20 or 100 rounds but the price per round is quite a bit higher than the Starline price.  Maybe other shooters would be interested in splitting a Starline order with you.

Good shooting.

HHW

[Tuolumne Lawman]

Buffalo has dropped their prices some.  250 brass, $200 same as Starline. 100, $85; 50- $45  I just ordered another 50!

[klw]

Do we know what Buffalo Arms is making their 56-50 cases from?  I would assume it could be 50-70 or 348 Winchester.  Are there any other cases that this case forming operation could start from?

Also would the reloading dies themselves, the actual dies, have to be different if using brass formed from 50-70 and compared to 348 Winchester?

Finally it would seem as if there could be three types of 56-50 brass.  I'm not talking about guns firing the original cartridges as opposed to the replicas but rather just within the replicas themselves.  If you were only considering Taylor 56-50 guns, couldn't you have three potential types of brass, namely brass specifically made for these guns as Starline is doing, brass formed for these guns that started life as some other case as I assume Buffalo Arms is doing and brass machined from brass rods as Rocky Mountain Cartridge is doing.  Could these three sources all work with, say, one set of Lyman dies?

[Wagon Wheel]

Um, I think they are selling Starline brass.

[French Jack]

Buffalo Arms sells the Starline brass for the Taylor's 56-50, and forms 56-50 from 50-70 brass for originals.

[mtmarfield]

   Greetings!

I've noticed that Dixie Gun Works {800-238-6785} is now selling 56-50 turned brass at fifty pieces for $105.00... If that's something that you want to try.

                              Be Well!

                                          M.T.Marfield
                                             1-27-06

[Harve Curry]

Has anyone had any luck with the "turned brass" ?
I haven't, it did not last for me. The 50-70 Bell brand I bought from Romano and he cut it down to the spec's I sent him, they last a long time. Cost was $2 a piece plus shipping a few years ago.

[Dakota Widowmaker]

I have both a local source and an online retailer.

Locally, I live close enough to Track Of The Wolf.
Online, I buy from MidwayUSA.