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If your handy a shell vise is easy to make.

I made this self opening and have leather bushings cut from an old belt (dab of contact cement to hold them in place) to go from 12ga to 16ga.
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After the first shot the rest are just noise.
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Update on my progress: OK, I made an executive decision. Since I have a fair number of the RST hulls, I decided to figure out a way to get decent reloads of at least one type of hull. I was tired of doing the roll crimp --some worked pretty well, some didn't-- and having to finish them with parafin just so they would be usable. When I decided the progressive MEC grabber could not be adjusted to accommodate the short hulls (and with the suggestion to use the Short Kit) I made several leather discs (just because it was easy to cut and I do alot of leather work) exactly 1/4" thick to take up the slack in the turret so the partially loaded shells would be tall enough to receive the final 3 stages of the crimp. It accomplishes the same thing as the Short Kit for a single stage loader.

So now the process is simplified: I run them through the first 3 stages/ deprime, reprime and powder drop, insert wad ,drop shot. Then transfer (one at a time) to a wooden block to hold them securely until I have 25-30 or so. Finally back through the final 3 stages.

It's probably not any faster than a single stage loader but then I don't have a single stage loader--yet. Maybe I'll try to find one.

Anyway, thanks to all who have participated. Gil


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Why would you have to finish roll crimped rounds with paraffin/wax to make them useable? I load a lot of roll crimped rounds in 16ga and 12ga and have never saw a need to paraffin/wax the crimps any more than a need to paraffin/wax star crimps.


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The Lee Load-All will crimp 2 1/2". The caveat is a once fired hull cannot be shorter than 2 1/2". I use a 3/16" spacer on the crimp starter station, but a spacer is not required on the crimp finish.

My 16's are all modern era 2 3/4", but since hulls like Winchester AAs are scarce trimming the last 1/8" off a worn hull mouth allows a few more reloads of the precious things. FYI AAs are the compression formed hull and typically shrink to about 2 5/8" once fired.

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