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Unread 04-04-2015, 10:33 PM   #21
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William, I made one in my lathe. Started with a piece of wood, drilled and taped the end for a 1/4 x 20 bolt with the head cut off, turned it around in the lathe and turned it to the correct taper and use it in the lathe or drill press. It remains tight since the turning is in the direction which keeps it that way. Carvel
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Carvel,

That's the trick for sure. Spin it by the bolt when shaping. Going to turn up a couple today. I have a supply of doubled threaded bolts, lag screw one end machine screw other.

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i use one of Ballistic product's tools for reforming the case mouth

http://www.ballisticproducts.com/Spi...tinfo/SPINDOC/
I found when doing this with a tool i made , If you deprime the hull 1st, the former goes in much better. I found there was no room for the trapped air to go and hard to push the former in.
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That's a very good tip

Will give it a try

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yes a good tip indeed...charlie
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Thanks to all for the advice and especially William for the tool he sent me. I was able to recover all of my fired rolled-hulls, especially important was William's tip to leave it in the hull and let it cool so it does not retain the memory of the crimp, whether previously a star or roll crimp.

One and a quarter ounces was too much for my Federal hulls with 32 grains of 7625. So I had no choice but to roll crimp.

My 1878 short-short 10 lifter likes the bigger shot (4s) much better than 6s. It puts the same amount of nickel 4s in the turkey head as it does with 6s, which is strange I thought. Maybe it is the nickel-plated shot. It is all contained within the SP10 shot cup so I don't worry about the nickel.

Well, wound up for turkey season which begins tomorrow at daybreak and off every morning for the next four weeks. I'll be more worn out than the turkeys that run from my calls and go the other way. But there is no hunting like it (well maybe dove, and goose, and deer, and...).
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good hunting jerry...charlie
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JA-bet you don't have enough room for a good crimp. I had trouble with my 2 5/8 shells. With what looks like the shot too far below the top of the shell I got good crimps. I have a couple of hundred loaded up right now without any empties to try on so I can't say for sure how for down you have to be - but it's more than one would think.
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Paul,

You are right. If it crushes the hull, there was not enough room and too much shot. One and 1/8 oz. would do just fine. But after knocking down a big gobbler this morning with the short-short ten only to have him get away, the experiment is over. I won't sleep for a couple of days over it. I'm going back to the cannons.
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sorry to hear of the big gobblers get away...thats why i stick to the big cannons myself...charlie
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