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George Babits
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B.E.L.L Brass
Aug 16th, 2014 at 1:39pm
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I'm wondering if BELL brass is better, worse, or the same as what is being offered these days.  I have some new BELL 50-90 brass I have been considering cutting down to 50-70 if it has no higher value than StarLine brass. 

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Re: B.E.L.L Brass
Reply #1 - Aug 16th, 2014 at 3:35pm
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George,I tried that,buy the starline and sell the 50/90 brass you will come out ahead,Bob.
  
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Reply #2 - Aug 16th, 2014 at 5:04pm
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I've got plenty of StarLine brass, just wondered if the BELL was better.  I was also thinking that cutting down the 50-90s might give me a thicker neck for a sloppy original chamber.   Any idea the value of the BELL brass?

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Reply #3 - Aug 17th, 2014 at 12:50am
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George,The bell I cut back and annealed, did not hold up as well as the starline. (split cases)I sold the bell 50/90 for a bit more than the starline 50/70 and life was good,Bob.
  
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Reply #4 - Aug 17th, 2014 at 2:13am
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Has BELL restarted production of brass? I thought they went to the wall years ago. Huh

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Reply #5 - Aug 17th, 2014 at 11:48am
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I don't think so Harry.  This is just some new old stock I picked up a while back.

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Reply #6 - Aug 17th, 2014 at 12:22pm
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Harry,
IIRC, Bell Brass was bought by the guys that started Jamison International which has now evolved into Captech International. Bob
  
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Reply #7 - Aug 18th, 2014 at 11:34am
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Old-Win wrote on Aug 17th, 2014 at 12:22pm:
Harry,
IIRC, Bell Brass was bought by the guys that started Jamison International which has now evolved into Captech International. Bob


Cheers Bob and thank you. I seem to remember
B.E.L.L. Brass being unavailable any more and no one was producing large case 'Basic' brass. Good to hear it's back in production.

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Re: B.E.L.L Brass
Reply #8 - Aug 20th, 2014 at 6:46am
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I use 50/90 bell to make cases for steyr peabody martini  cases ,after annealling they fireform  much better then the starline ones 
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Re: B.E.L.L Brass
Reply #9 - Aug 25th, 2014 at 12:44pm
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IIRC, back about 1988, B.E.L.L. was bought by someone DBA "Eldorado Cartridge Company" Boulder City, Nevada.  I do not know if Eldorado ever got off the ground.   

My BELL cases were 25-20 SS basics.  Thumbs down.
  
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