Crimping question???

[John Farrell, Charter Member #33]

That is as I suspected on first looking at the photo you included. You can probably stay with the components in the shell, except you will need some overshot cards from BPI or Precision Reloading and roll crimp the shorter shells. Roll crimping is not all that difficult.

BPI and Precision Reloading (1-800-223-0900) have roll crimping tools that are used in a hand drill or bench drill. IMHO the Precision Reloading is the better of the two roll crimpers. The BPI has one roll starter, the PR roll crimper has 4. Makes a better rc.

Attached photos of some 16 gauge roll crimped shells. It's not brain surgery. A progressive reloader where you cannot remove the shell during the reloading operation is a problem. A MEC 650 works, you just have to remove the shell after dropping the shot and inserting the overshot card with the wad ram through the wad guide. A MEC 600 jr or other single stage is the ideal. It's slow going, one at a time for the roll crimping, but, the end result is good. JF