My " Rube Golberg contraptions " has put out many a shell with little problems. My friends uncle and father owned it in Florida where they shot trap, then he bought it and used it for about ten years, and now I have it. The only problem I have is after about a 150 shells it starts cycling slow. When it warms up the pressure goes from 700 to under 500. I'm usually ready to quit, but if I ever get off my lazy butt I'll put a washer under the pressure spring. I think they're a very good machine. Craig, if you want to play around with it I believe it could be made to load 10ga. You'd have to grind the shell holder bigger to hold a 10ga, being careful not to grind into the primer hole. Then the two washers under the shell plate holder have to be ground smaller so the 10ga shell goes into the holder. I did it with a grabber. And I trimmed the shells to 2 3/4.
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Paul Harm
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