tigger Posted November 15, 2013 Report Share Posted November 15, 2013 I've reposted this in the correct section, those that have 10g semi's, will they eject RTO crimped carts or do they have to have proper crimps to eject with no issues I'm going to get one but don't want the hassle of using a press etc again so want to use a RTO but wanted to check before perchase thanks..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sitsinhedges Posted November 15, 2013 Report Share Posted November 15, 2013 Isn't this just a function of the length of the fired case rather than whether it's crimped or rolled? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Mat Posted November 15, 2013 Report Share Posted November 15, 2013 Tigger, i don't own a 10G semi, but i do have some experience with RTO in 3" 12. I've had no problem firing and ejecting a RTO'd cartridge, but i was having problems with the cartridge being too long to fit two in the mag and also they would not cycle as they got caught in the action when the loading gate went up. I'd suggest you'd see exactley the same problems with 10 bore if the RTO'd case was too long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigger Posted November 15, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 15, 2013 Isn't this just a function of the length of the fired case rather than whether it's crimped or rolled? I hope so but just wanted to check I have no problems with my 12g 31/2 semi with RTO .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigger Posted November 15, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 15, 2013 Tigger, i don't own a 10G semi, but i do have some experience with RTO in 3" 12. I've had no problem firing and ejecting a RTO'd cartridge, but i was having problems with the cartridge being too long to fit two in the mag and also they would not cycle as they got caught in the action when the loading gate went up. I'd suggest you'd see exactley the same problems with 10 bore if the RTO'd case was too long. This was my concern hence asking the question, I'm hoping that with it being a 10g case capacity should not be a problem and could be cut down a bit to fit but just hoped somebody would be able to answer it, thanks buddy..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edenman Posted November 16, 2013 Report Share Posted November 16, 2013 Tigger, i don't own a 10G semi, but i do have some experience with RTO in 3" 12. I've had no problem firing and ejecting a RTO'd cartridge, but i was having problems with the cartridge being too long to fit two in the mag and also they would not cycle as they got caught in the action when the loading gate went up. I'd suggest you'd see exactley the same problems with 10 bore if the RTO'd case was too long. My sp10 will cycle any length of shell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roughshooter Posted November 16, 2013 Report Share Posted November 16, 2013 Generally trim the cases to 3 1/4" (83mm) and they will be fine. I do this on my 10 bore cases that I am finishing with an rto and also do it on 12g 3 1/2" cases Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildfowler.250 Posted November 16, 2013 Report Share Posted November 16, 2013 So basically if you want a 10g semi auto with 3 1/2" shells you need a press and crimp the shells? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edenman Posted November 17, 2013 Report Share Posted November 17, 2013 (edited) So basically if you want a 10g semi auto with 3 1/2" shells you need a press and crimp the shells?I don't have a press I RTO all my steel loads for my 10g and they are only 50 fps slower than crimped loads.I don't need to cut my cases down either for my sp10. Edited November 17, 2013 by edenman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildfowl jon Posted November 25, 2013 Report Share Posted November 25, 2013 (edited) Providing you get the length of the loaded RTO cartridge as short as or shorter than your factory load you'll have no problems (you may have a slight additional tollerence here but usually not a lot), fired case length is irrelevant, is the cartridge loading into the chamber from the mag which will jam not the one being extracted. Edited November 25, 2013 by wildfowl jon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenntay Posted November 25, 2013 Report Share Posted November 25, 2013 I load rto for my sp 10 without any problems, but I had a browning gold 10 which I had to trim 3 mm off the case to 86 mm for it to eject them. A problem some golds had. Hope this helps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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