Herter's brass - pics

[kjohn]

Made in Finland. Nice stuff.

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[K-C]

Yep, Higginson Powders $21.50 per 50, they have been selling them for years and they used to charge a lot less...

 

[Willy Tincup]

Back in the 60's and early 70's Herters were a mail order company out of Waseca, Minnesota and produced a catalogue that was easliy an inch thick. Still have 1 or 2 of them. They contained 1000's of items for the hunter fisherman outdoorsman. Too bad they arn't still in business.

 

[Hitzy]

Mine all said "made in Sweden"...they must finally be getting low on stock lol

 

[kjohn]

Mine all said "made in Sweden"...they must finally be getting low on stock lol

These are from the days of yore. Not sure how long ago I got these.

 

[c-fbmi]

I've got 55 of them for sale on the EE right now in 264 WM..........I used to have 2 or 3 Herters catalogues, just threw them out a few years ago when I was packing up my stuff to move south.

 

[mbogo3]

Got 1000 each squirreled away.......303+ 30-06

 

[Ganderite]

I have some Herters reloading tools. Don't know what some of them are...

 

[kawicrash]

Maybe the Swedish ones are Norma and the Finnish are Lapua??

 

[Johnny G1]

Have 50rds of 25-303A1 loaded with 100gr Herter bullets, they been around a long time, just never got to bust the caps yet.

 

['Boo]

Maybe the Swedish ones are Norma and the Finnish are Lapua??

Most of the Swedish brass from Herters & Higginson was Metallverken I believe.

 

[fingers284]

I have some Herters reloading tools. Don't know what some of them are...

My old man's original single stage (his one and only, the one I learnt on) press was a Herters and I still have it. Its built like a tank and I use it for forming brass. The only real drawback to the old girl is the shell holder base is different from what has been standardized over the industry. I also have a box of parts for it that I don't know how to use or even assemble properly to load shotshells (equally as robustly built as the main press).

 

[MDF]

Where do you get virgin brass?

From lonely copper and zinc.

314299 on TubeYou has a video about these: https://youtu.be/y8SmPe3CcMY

 

[K-C]

I have this little 656-page gem (5th Edition, 1971):

and here is the man himself, George Leonard Herter (24 May 1911 – 5 July 1994):

 

[K-C]

My old man's original single stage (his one and only, the one I learnt on) press was a Herters and I still have it. Its built like a tank and I use it for forming brass. The only real drawback to the old girl is the shell holder base is different from what has been standardized over the industry. I also have a box of parts for it that I don't know how to use or even assemble properly to load shotshells (equally as robustly built as the main press).

I have a monster Herters press and I got a "Herters Shell Holder Adapter" so that I can use standard shell holders with it:

http://www.ch4d.com/products/equipment/presses/herters

 

[Hitzy]

They branded a lot of high quality stuff... sold BSA CF2 rifles under the Herters brand in the US back in the day as well.
The single stage presses are still highly regarded.

 

[fingers284]

I have a monster Herters press and I got a "Herters Shell Holder Adapter" so that I can use standard shell holders with it:

http://www.ch4d.com/products/equipment/presses/herters

Thanks for that and hope it will help somebody out...I have a lathe so I made my own "conversion mount" a few years ago.