Roll Crimp

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by charlie cleveland

bill some of his stuff was in the 4 sale column or maybe in the regular forem....I did not get the resizer..i did not get to buy any of his big guns..i never seen them up for sale...would like to have had one of those 4 bores...charlie

Some of his shotguns were sold by either Rock Island or Julia’s 3-5 years ago . To be honest I knew not who Daryl Middlebrook was then and to be honest not much now other than an occasional reference to the man here from time to time .

[6pt-Sika]

I am now assuming Daryl Middlebrook May very well have been the guy in New Jersey Tom Armbrust was telling me about and that all his English stuff went back across the pond .

[Paul Harm]

Edgar, to each their own opinion, but I've found the drill press and hand crank both do about the same job as far as quality goes. Where the DP type has it over the crank ones is when you're going to do quite a few at once. Turning that crank gets old in a hurry. I'll take my DP models any day, thank you. I find it romantic to once in awhile to do everything by hand and use black powder. Now, if I could just find some paper 10s everything would be complete.

[edgarspencer]

As you say, to each their own. My Bridgeport Gun Implement Co roll crimped differs from the more common bench clamped version, and the quality of the roll is quite simply, perfect. It takes four turns of the crank.
I load all my paper shells and set them in a 25 round block. Then place my overshot cards into them. From there, if it takes 3 minutes to roll the 25 rounds I’m loafing.
I’ve got boxes of NOS 10ga paper NPEs. Pays to go to the Annual Meeting silent auction.

[6pt-Sika]

Well I loaded two rounds with the 730 grain .775” slug I wrapped the slug with five layers of masking tape and a mylar .010” wrap set them on top of five 1/8 cards in the SP-8 shot cup and pushed it with Universal Clays . From the right barrel !

[6pt-Sika]

I also loaded some more of the .775” punkin balls with five wraps of masking tape sitting on top of six 1/8” cards in the SP-8 shot cup again pushed with Universal clays . Again from the right barrel .

[6pt-Sika]

And finally I shot one round of the 000000 (.415”) eight pellets from the left barrel also pushed with Universal Clays in the SP-8 wad and buffer .

[charlie cleveland]

they look pretty good to me...especially the buckshot load...charlie

[Paul Harm]

Wow, four turns is really good. I spin the crap out of mine. Maybe next time I'll see if I can do it with less cranking.

[6pt-Sika]

I shot four rounds of Skeet at the club today . And I did it backwards I shot the first two with a 28 the third with a 16 and the last with the 8 . I should’ve shot the 8 first then the 16 and shot the light little 28 last . Used the roll crimped 1 5/8 ounce and star crimped 1 1/2 ounce loads . I’ll just say Brutus takes a bit of effort to get started and A LOT of effort on doubles to start stop and reverse Didn’t get them all but I got enough to make me wanna do it some more . But next time I’ll shoot the 8 FIRST