Originally Posted by Paul Harm
Tamid, my Accurate powders reloaders guide goes into detail about the crimp and how it's overlooked. The weight of the shot and the crimp are the only resistance to the powder and gives you a good reliable reload. You need that roll over in a crimp.

Paul, I agree. But what do you do in a pinch? I did try full star crimp with a makeshift riser on the crimp stages to account for 2.5 rather than 2.75" It worked for about half the loads and the other half were a mess.

Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.