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Originally Posted by Brian Dudley
The only thing you may have trouble with is the roll crimped. Those hand crank ones can be tough to get a really good tight and clean crimp with. And the pressure arm can leave marks in the brass rim sometimes.
I like using the roll crimp tool that chucks up in a drill press. It is fast and you get excellent crimps with it.
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My experience with recently, I'm finding it to be much the opposite, Brian.
I load my NPE Chedites in my MEC, up to the dropping of shot. Then take it out and put the overshot card in. My old BGI roll crimper does a beautiful crimp with 5 turns of the crank, I've yet to have any trouble getting a crimped shell right out, and it's much less trouble than the drill press crimper. Also, the handle that pushes the shell into the crimper leaves no gouges or marks. It's just enough to keep the shell from turning. The vice necessary to hold a shell on the drill press table can deform the brass. Someone on here uses a MEC collet sizer to hold their shells, and that one won't deform the brass.
I have a few of the old roll crimpers, and clearly, some are much better than others. There was an auction last week that had MANY of these old loading tools. Like, maybe 75 roll crimpers.