what is a Ponsness Warren size-o-matic 900 worth?
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I got mine for free ...
You can easily look up the new tetail price of the latest model (in US dollars) on their website. Yours are probably older modela such as the 600B which has less features than the newer ones. At this time there is very little interest in reloading standard shotgun ammo in Canada because the high price of components makes it about the same price as buying new ammo. I could have had a 600B for $150 at the Chilliwack gun show two years ago. It did sell but I don't know for how much.
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R&R Rancher
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- Manitoba's Interlake
I’ve bought a 950 and a 900 off the EE here over the last couple of years. I bought tooling kits from PW and converted them to load 28 gauge and 410. Paid around $350 shipped for each. HTH
BigUglyMan
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They don't command high prices because so few people reload shotshells anymore. I have one (not sure of the model) that hasn't been set up in 15 years and hasn't been used in 40, in all likelihood. And I'm not selling.
Let me know when you get a price to sell.I'm interested in one anyway.
Part of my Dad's estate was selling his P-W Size-o-Matic 800C in 12 gauge. It was well used but obsessively cleaned and maintained by my father, who had me drive it over to Rathburn or whatever in Idaho to have it served and checked a few years before he died.
The best I could get for it when I finally sold it a couple of years ago was $350 and I threw in a couple of big boxes of AA hulls that Dad used but I never do. It took a couple of years to get that $350 - but I was in no hurry to sell it and wasn't going to move on the price.
Don't know how much ahead of the 800 series the 900 series PW's are. But the 800 series really haven't held much value when you look at their original purchase price.
I have done all my shotshell reloading on a P-W 375 I bought at the White Elephant in Spokane about 45 years ago. I'm just a casual trap and skeet shooter, and mostly I try to get the best loads for bird hunting, so I'm okay with the reduced speed on the 375 in exchange for the flexibility in changing between load setups.
Now if you want to see bottom of the barrel prices for P-W shotshell reloaders, look at what sellers get for a used 375 today. I bought one off a neighboring table at a local gun show last year, just for spare parts, just in case. Guy at that table had a $150 price tag hanging on it. It was still sitting there at the end as we started packing up. Nobody even looked at it or asked him about it. So I offered him $50 just to save him the trouble of hauling it around - and he instantly took the money and shoved the press at me.
Might as well just give these little 375s away in return for a promise to return the favour. They are fine reloading machines, and after using my brother's MEC shotshell loaders, I think the MEC isn't even close.
If you can wait long enough, you can hopefully get a reasonable price for your machines. There just aren't enough people reloading these days - and when you look at what they charge for lead shot these days, you can see why.
Anybody know of a source of shot recycled from trap ranges here in Canada, just for recreational shotgunning?
The best I could get for it when I finally sold it a couple of years ago was $350 and I threw in a couple of big boxes of AA hulls that Dad used but I never do. It took a couple of years to get that $350 - but I was in no hurry to sell it and wasn't going to move on the price.
Don't know how much ahead of the 800 series the 900 series PW's are. But the 800 series really haven't held much value when you look at their original purchase price.
I have done all my shotshell reloading on a P-W 375 I bought at the White Elephant in Spokane about 45 years ago. I'm just a casual trap and skeet shooter, and mostly I try to get the best loads for bird hunting, so I'm okay with the reduced speed on the 375 in exchange for the flexibility in changing between load setups.
Now if you want to see bottom of the barrel prices for P-W shotshell reloaders, look at what sellers get for a used 375 today. I bought one off a neighboring table at a local gun show last year, just for spare parts, just in case. Guy at that table had a $150 price tag hanging on it. It was still sitting there at the end as we started packing up. Nobody even looked at it or asked him about it. So I offered him $50 just to save him the trouble of hauling it around - and he instantly took the money and shoved the press at me.
Might as well just give these little 375s away in return for a promise to return the favour. They are fine reloading machines, and after using my brother's MEC shotshell loaders, I think the MEC isn't even close.
If you can wait long enough, you can hopefully get a reasonable price for your machines. There just aren't enough people reloading these days - and when you look at what they charge for lead shot these days, you can see why.
Anybody know of a source of shot recycled from trap ranges here in Canada, just for recreational shotgunning?
I sold a 900 in 2019 for $395
It was in very good shape and had about 4 pairs of powder and shot bushings.
That $50 for a 375 is a steal!! I sold one for $210 here in the ee. I think there is still a good demand online for the 375 since it is one of the smoothest single stage presses out there imo.
It was in very good shape and had about 4 pairs of powder and shot bushings.
That $50 for a 375 is a steal!! I sold one for $210 here in the ee. I think there is still a good demand online for the 375 since it is one of the smoothest single stage presses out there imo.
What a shot shell press is worth, and what you can get for it in our market are often two very different things. The cost of components vs the cost of loaded ammo for 12 and 20 gauge make loading these gauges uncommon these days.
I got my 375 with 12 and 20 gauge tooling free from a coworker who had it left behind at his house by the previous owner. Not going to sell it, but only load some specialty loads and slugs with it really.
I got my 375 with 12 and 20 gauge tooling free from a coworker who had it left behind at his house by the previous owner. Not going to sell it, but only load some specialty loads and slugs with it really.
Yes. And now I own TWO.
My Superposed, my B2000, the Residential Sergeant Major's old AYA, the N.R. Davis my Grandpop left to me... the newest one is the Browning B2000, circa about 1974. No removeable chokes. To go shoot a few rounds of trap or something like that, why bother.
But to get the best patterning performance out of all those shotguns, they all have their own individual loads, the doubles for each barrel. All sorted out on a patterning board long ago, tweaking loads in the 375, reading Don Zutz as the shotshell reloading guru.
The Davis in particular really benefited from load tweaking. Not surprising, given that it's over a 100 years old, and pattern theory and shotshell technology was no doubt much different back when Grandpop bought that shotgun.
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