Dowel Rod Trimmer

[Cold Spring]

A production way to do it if you can find a junker 10 gauge barrel at a Gun Show and have a mechanical bent. Barrel stub cut to 2-7/8", clamped in a vise and a craft saw in use. Ends of the cut hulls are easily smoothed flat by rubbing against fine wet/dry paper on a flat surface.

[edgarspencer]

Frank, I'm not sure what constitutes 'production', but, as you know, it takes 12 minutes to load ( or re-load)100 rounds on a 9000 press, but it takes me almost 20 minutes to trim a bag of 2 3/4" NPEs to 2 1/2". There's no fuzz on the trimmed hulls either.

[edgarspencer]

I enjoy seeing how we all attack a problem by different methods. It reminded me of a visit to our school, by a NASA astronaut, when I was (very much) younger. He said "If man didn't try to build a better mousetrap, we never would have gotten to the moon."

[Joe Wheeler]

Originally Posted by Frank Srebro

A production way to do it if you can find a junker 10 gauge barrel at a Gun Show and have a mechanical bent. Barrel stub cut to 2-7/8", clamped in a vise and a craft saw in use.

That would sure be an interesting way to do it. Prob. not cost effective though in most cases.

[Cold Spring]

Originally Posted by Joe Wheeler

That would sure be an interesting way to do it. Prob. not cost effective though in most cases.

That nondescript 10 gauge barrel cost me 10 bucks at a gun show.

I did try a dowel cutter but because of variation in the depth of the base wads the cut shells had a +/- tolerance on length. Not that it mattered all that much when crimping but I wanted hull uniformity by use of a cutter that indexed from the shell rim not the base wad.

[10 bore]

Originally Posted by Frank Srebro

That nondescript 10 gauge barrel cost me 10 bucks at a gun show.

I did try a dowel cutter but because of variation in the depth of the base wads the cut shells had a +/- tolerance on length. Not that it mattered all that much when crimping but I wanted hull uniformity by use of a cutter that indexed from the shell rim not the base wad.

I put a adjustment screw at the bottom of dowel ,screw in to shortn hull back screw out to cut hull longer, works great for different brands of hulls. Been cutting 10 ga hull with that type trimmer sense 2009 with no changes, it works.
Scott