45-120 Brass

[Pritcher]

I did not realize buffalo arms had any left. I gave it a quick look, unfortunately with the hazard shipping and all it's over $9 a round. But if I can't find it anywhere else, it's a good option to have.

 

[TennesseeHunter]

I also didn’t realize Buffalo arms had loaded rounds in stock.
That’s probably your best bet to pony up the money for a couple boxes of that. As previously mentioned, 40 cases would last a very long time if treated properly. Until you need more than 40 cases if you get into competition or buffalo shoots at the range or anything like that.

Also, you’ve got dies but what about powder? Buying ammo and paying hazmat means it’s a no brainer to get powder too and depending on location black powder can be hard to find.

 

[Pritcher]

Also, you’ve got dies but what about powder? Buying ammo and paying hazmat means it’s a no brainer to get powder too and depending on location black powder can be hard to find.

I have plenty of powder fortunately, my sporting clays/groundfowl gun is kind of a giant powder hog, so I stock up on 1F and 2F.

 

[jambrdly]

I have plenty of powder fortunately, my sporting clays/groundfowl gun is kind of a giant powder hog, so I stock up on 1F and 2F.

This might be worth bidding on. These should put you in business with no fuss, no muss. Norma is good brass.

If you would like, I can send you a Kynoch .450 NE case and you can see if it might work for you. It's Berdan primed but it might be one way to go forward. No charge.

 

[Andrew NOLA]

https://www.northernshooterssupplies.com.au/default.asp

In Australia

I bought some 50-110 Bertram brass from him last month

He drove to Bertram and picked it up for me and handled all the export stuff and it shipped to my house in New Orleans

Expensive. Yes. But there was not a choice if I want to shoot the rifle i paid for already.

If you can get it off of gun broker, likely to be less expensive then this route.

Cost of playing the game. I’m a big fan of correctly. Head stamped brass.

You might need somebody to translate Australian for you. He had a hard time understanding cajun and I had a really hard time understanding Australian. Really thick accent

 

[jambrdly]

FYI there is a lot of .45-120 brass on GB at present. 48 pieces of “old reliable” brand brass. The current bid is $255 and the Buy-it-now price is $400. Not cheap but all this old specialty brass is pricey. Starline sells it at 20 rounds to the bag when it’s available so you might run the numbers through your calculator and see if this lot might be right for you.

Search for “Old Reliable 45 Basic Brass”.

 

[largemouthbrass]

Hello all, first post on the site, though I have read through a fair few threads in the past. So, I bought a fairly inexpensive 45-120 made by some obscure Italian brand from the 70s. I had always wanted one of the Petersoli units, but they are somewhat price prohibitive for me. At any rate, the rifle is on its way to me, and I already have dies, all I need is brass. However, it seems as though nobody has even a hint of it anywhere. To boot, the folks selling cases on gunbroker want an arm and a leg for them. My question is, might there be anywhere one could find reasonably priced cases for sale? I only need a small number (perhaps 20), but I really don't want to shell out more than five bucks a case to the handful of guys selling on gunbroker.

Cheers,
Jack

SSL Firearms is liquidating the remaining inventory from Jamison brass on 6/4/25. The auction does include a few larger lots of 45-120 brass. SSL's sister company, orbitbid, liquidated the machinery from the Jamison plant a few years back. You should be able to see all of the lots selling at bid.sslfirearms.com

 

[TennesseeHunter]

SSL Firearms is liquidating the remaining inventory from Jamison brass on 6/4/25. The auction does include a few larger lots of 45-120 brass. SSL's sister company, orbitbid, liquidated the machinery from the Jamison plant a few years back. You should be able to see all of the lots selling at bid.sslfirearms.com

Thank you for the information. I never would have found that.
While I don’t need 5000 pieces of 45-120, one probably could buy one of the lots and sell what they don’t need at a price just to cover what’s invested. Or to make a profit I guess
We’ll see what it all ends up going for.

 

[hoytcanon]

I hate gun broker. I hate it with a passion. I feel that website is incrementally ruining our shooting sports. I understand an actual business needing to make 20% but most of what I see on there is beyond the pale. This supply and demand bottleneck we’ve all experienced in the last few years seems to have collectively driven us mad. The willingness of so many buyers to participate in the insane bidding wars or pay the exorbitant buy now prices is feeding the monster. The world is not ending. Manufacturers have machines. Raw materials exist in the Earth’s crust. Things will be made. If people would exercise restraint and patience (not giving in to the urge to have it all immediately for fear it’ll be gone tomorrow) there would be plenty to go around and at reasonable prices too. I would be ashamed of myself to sell to my fellow sportsmen at such dishonest prices. I like to think we are gentlemen. Not fucking pirates.

I am sympathetic to your pain, however "supply and demand" has been around as long as people have been, and will always be the operating system of the open market. You don't have to buy at a price you feel is unfair, but someone else may not feel as you do, or they want it more, or they have more disposable income... that is life, no need to be bitter about it... just refuse to participate and go without. I have had to walk away from many things in life that I wanted but couldn't afford... but did pick up one thing back in 1987 that I didn't know I couldn't afford... until she started buying shoes.

 

[hoytcanon]

Do you know a welder?
Buy some once fired .45-70 cases and a 10 foot length of 1/2" copper pipe... cut the pipe into twenty 6" pieces, and have your welder friend add them to the end of the .45-70 brass... "Voila," 20 pieces of .45-120.

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

Do you know a welder?
Buy some once fired .45-70 cases and a 10 foot length of 1/2" copper pipe... cut the pipe into twenty 6" pieces, and have your welder friend add them to the end of the .45-70 brass... "Voila," 20 pieces of .45-120.

@hoytcanon
I've heard Bubba the redneck gunsmith silver solders brass to the case to any length you want.
Dang even guarantees the new case to last one shot if you can get it thru the reloading process.
Bob

 

[TennesseeHunter]

That auction with the rest of Jamison’s inventory ended up being bought in one big purchase by some distributor.

I have now seen where most of that has went and thought I’d relay what I knew. I’ll see if I can post a link.

New! Jamison Ammunition and Brass Available in Hard to Find Calibers Take a Look! for sale

New! Jamison Ammunition and Brass Available in Hard to Find Calibers Take a Look! for sale online.

www.gunsinternational.com

I purchased a bag of 45-120 brass at 5 bucks each and some boxes of 32-20. The guy said they had received give or take 18,000 pieces of 45-120 and was selling ammo at a loss cause they had too much to put it everywhere, apparently.
Also said that everything combined had been purchased for $350,000 by this distributor, which is neat information.

 

[wkndwarrior]

That auction with the rest of Jamison’s inventory ended up being bought in one big purchase by some distributor.

I have now seen where most of that has went and thought I’d relay what I knew. I’ll see if I can post a link.

New! Jamison Ammunition and Brass Available in Hard to Find Calibers Take a Look! for sale

New! Jamison Ammunition and Brass Available in Hard to Find Calibers Take a Look! for sale online.

www.gunsinternational.com

I purchased a bag of 45-120 brass at 5 bucks each and some boxes of 32-20. The guy said they had received give or take 18,000 pieces of 45-120 and was selling ammo at a loss cause they had too much to put it everywhere, apparently.
Also said that everything combined had been purchased for $350,000 by this distributor, which is neat information.

That's interesting, I bought some 45-120 from an individual on ASSRA forum who had a thread on buying the auction lot. He said it took up the entirety of his three car garage. It was only $3/case but for that price you need an ASSRA membership. Looks like he might still have some left.