Roll Crimping

[Rick Roemer]

I certainly appreciate all the help and guidance getting started with roll crimping. I have started over the Christmas time and I think have a good start. See pictures. Please critique.!

Couple questions I still have:

I’m loading strictly 2 1/2 inch cheddite new primed hulls.

20 gauge seemed to be perfect

12 gauge has too much crimp space. I’ve tried building things up with cards, but it seems to be too excessive.

I’ve tried 16 with the same results

I’m using recipes that I’ve used for fold crimping not sure if I’m supposed to cut off the shells to make them shorter than 2 1/2 because of the roll?

The Big thing I’ve noticed is I’ve shot some of these roll crimped shells now and they don’t seem to be to be able to be reused due to the shell opening being fairly bizarre-Much different than a fold crimp opening. I have a spin doctor tool, but even that doesn’t work just right. Do most roll crimpers just use one and done?

Thx guys

Again, thanks for all the help. I am pleased with the results and I know it will be better as I move forward.

Rick