OK, so this is a little off the beaten path & probably more wordy than it needs to be...
I suppose we all have our little reloading idiosyncrasies/quirks - I know I do.
I reload Federal papers for a few of my old vintage trap guns. But two of them - both Winchesters pumps, an early Model 1897 Trap Gun and a custom 1930-vintage Model 12 tournament-type gun - are most happy when I first resize my fired hulls using a MEC Super Sizer. And - in my experience - the Super Sizer is more effective on decappped hulls.
Being somewhat vintage myself, I use an old Hornady/Pacific DL-105 single-stage press for all of my shotshell reloading (I actually have 3 of these, set up for different gauges/hulls). And I hate to “run” the press solely for decapping. So, to do that, I first have to take off the charge bar/bottle assembly, so that I’m not banging them around through all of this “out of sequence” decapping. BTW, this press does do hull resizing “to spec” using a hardened ring around the base of the hull, but the two guns I mentioned like their hulls sized a little more - hence the extra Super Sizer step.
I also use the Super Sizer on plastic AA hulls that I plan to shoot in my Pre-Model 11 Remington Auto Loader Trap Gun. That particular gun doesn’t like paper reloads & cycles better with plastic AA hulls which have been through the Super Sizer.
My single- and double-barrel trap guns are fine with the Federal paper hulls which have only been minimally resized in the reloading press, so no similar issues with them.
For my metallic reloading, I have a handy RCBS universal decapping die, but I’ve never seen anything like that for shotgun hulls.
Watching the video of the Colvini crimping press in another thread here got me wondering if anyone knows about a rig for just decapping hulls? Ballistic Products has one for 12-ga brass “cowboy” hulls that you can use in a regular reloading press (like an RCBS Rock Chucker) but it’s set up for non-209 primers (the hole in the shell holder they sell with that die isn’t big enough to allow a 209 primer through).
I do have a simple French Thalson press, but the decapping process (like all of the other steps with that primitive rig) is tedious to say the least.
Just thought I’d throw this out and see if someone has already figured out a “fast” way to deprime hulls without cycling their “main” press for this extra step?
TIA,
Tom in Pittsburgh
Locked-down & with too much time on my hands...
I suppose we all have our little reloading idiosyncrasies/quirks - I know I do.
I reload Federal papers for a few of my old vintage trap guns. But two of them - both Winchesters pumps, an early Model 1897 Trap Gun and a custom 1930-vintage Model 12 tournament-type gun - are most happy when I first resize my fired hulls using a MEC Super Sizer. And - in my experience - the Super Sizer is more effective on decappped hulls.
Being somewhat vintage myself, I use an old Hornady/Pacific DL-105 single-stage press for all of my shotshell reloading (I actually have 3 of these, set up for different gauges/hulls). And I hate to “run” the press solely for decapping. So, to do that, I first have to take off the charge bar/bottle assembly, so that I’m not banging them around through all of this “out of sequence” decapping. BTW, this press does do hull resizing “to spec” using a hardened ring around the base of the hull, but the two guns I mentioned like their hulls sized a little more - hence the extra Super Sizer step.
I also use the Super Sizer on plastic AA hulls that I plan to shoot in my Pre-Model 11 Remington Auto Loader Trap Gun. That particular gun doesn’t like paper reloads & cycles better with plastic AA hulls which have been through the Super Sizer.
My single- and double-barrel trap guns are fine with the Federal paper hulls which have only been minimally resized in the reloading press, so no similar issues with them.
For my metallic reloading, I have a handy RCBS universal decapping die, but I’ve never seen anything like that for shotgun hulls.
Watching the video of the Colvini crimping press in another thread here got me wondering if anyone knows about a rig for just decapping hulls? Ballistic Products has one for 12-ga brass “cowboy” hulls that you can use in a regular reloading press (like an RCBS Rock Chucker) but it’s set up for non-209 primers (the hole in the shell holder they sell with that die isn’t big enough to allow a 209 primer through).
I do have a simple French Thalson press, but the decapping process (like all of the other steps with that primitive rig) is tedious to say the least.
Just thought I’d throw this out and see if someone has already figured out a “fast” way to deprime hulls without cycling their “main” press for this extra step?
TIA,
Tom in Pittsburgh
Locked-down & with too much time on my hands...