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it shuts the mouth / crimp at different depths,

 

the deeper ones are for slow burning powders / low powder charge loads.

 

the excess of the crimp, the crown, can be edged into feed into automatics and pumps.

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Is it the chap who lives up near the solway? had one off him a bit back for a 10b.

Yes - Kev Bellis

 

do these go in a drill like an rto ???

Yes they are an rto - just a posh one! I have to say the prices are very good. Cheaper than siarm and much cheaper than clay and game

 

Regards

 

Graham

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Have you guys never eaten a pork pie out of date? or had unprocted sex ? as long as you are carefull and dont use maximum loads there should not be a problem

 

Deershooter

 

DS,

the problem with this attitude is muppets reload anything. a guy i know never researches his powders. he justs reads the side of a cartridge. he thinks 28g means 28grains of powder. and that all cartridges have 1oz in them. he buys any cheap powder, then loads with a table spoon.

 

when i told him to read a databook. his reply was comical. "I aint reading no book, i aint at school"

 

he has been responsable for 3 detonations and one wasnt even his gun, it was his friend, i can tel you, even a baikal didnt survive one of his homeloads. the barrels dissapeared on the first shot duck shooting. the reciever was absolutely mangled.

 

even i have had loads come back hot from the proofhouse. its not embarrasing or shameful, the guys there are running a service to make sure we are all safe. thats the point.

the guy i know has had some tested in the 80s. they came back with too much pressure. but he carried on.

 

the problem with reloading and with all activities, there are some knobs out there.

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To RTO cases obviously necessary, but to tidy up crimps i can not see why you would spend the time and money and the potential pressure increase, even the most common and basic reloading presses MECs have adequate adjustment to make very uniform tidy crimps, if adjusted properly so why touch them if the machine is set up properly.

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To RTO cases obviously necessary, but to tidy up crimps i can not see why you would spend the time and money and the potential pressure increase, even the most common and basic reloading presses MECs have adequate adjustment to make very uniform tidy crimps, if adjusted properly so why touch them if the machine is set up properly.

Because, with the like of the Lee Load All, the final crimp quite often leaves the end of the cart slightly hexagonal. This is a BIG issue if your using the shells in an Auto as they will not feed into the chamber smoothly.

 

I understand why people use the spinner to taper and smooth the finished article, but MY loads are solely used in my O/U

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I make quiet alot of rto fawlling loads and the rto that i have dose the job ok but when you look at some that i have done and then look at some that have been done with a better rto there are a world apart.

As for rounding up crimps its not needed all that much i had a full day loading yesterday and out of the 7-800 made i probly need to spin up 50 as i know they will not load into auto or o/u and the rto that i have got is not good for the job

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Because, with the like of the Lee Load All, the final crimp quite often leaves the end of the cart slightly hexagonal. This is a BIG issue if your using the shells in an Auto as they will not feed into the chamber smoothly.

 

I understand why people use the spinner to taper and smooth the finished article, but MY loads are solely used in my O/U

I understand why they use the RTO too, but my point is its not necessary if you have your machine set up properly, and if your cases are in good enough condition and you have the wad column correct. And if you do use a lee load all the addition of a small washer will do a job of forming a good crimp for nothing. And at 40 quid or 30 quid for a brass GAEP you are half way to buying a second hand Mec that you can adjust to get decent crimps and tapers with no RTO needed. If you need a RTO for your loading fine, but using one to tidy crimps up is ridiculous and potentially dangerous i think using one could raise pressures considerably far more than adding a washer to a lee ever could.

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