[fastarget]

Can get a bunch of these new hulls from a friend, but was wondering if anyone has experience with loading them on a Dillon,do they crimp well? specifically how does the crimp hold up?

 

[Chase]

Last time I used some, they took and kept a crimp A-OK. Load without worry!

 

[shotgunner50]

I could not get them to load well on a SL 900 and Dillon customer service said not a reloadable casing.

 

[fastarget]

I could not get them to load well on a SL 900 and Dillon customer service said not a reloadable casing.

so the dillon is only good at reloading fired hulls? Do new hulls n ee d to be crimped on a single stage first?

 

[Carl_in_NH]

Don't know about the crimp starter on the Dillon, but I can tell you on a MEC-650 to load new, skived hulls (Rio and Fiocchi in my case) I remove the rotating crimp starter that's designed to align with and refold the expanded crimp from a fired hull, and replace it with a Super Crown Crimper from Ballistic Products.

Super Crown Crimper Large Bore 8-Point

The Super Crown Crimper is a premium quality tool, machined solid brass. Brass was chosen for the way it interacts with the plastic hull tubes are manufactured of. Even the hardest, unskived plastic hulls are shaped for perfect star crimps once run through the crimp station with a Super Crown...

www.ballisticproducts.com

This does the trick nicely and makes for a great crimp by putting sharp folds in the plastic of the new hull.

 

[stokinpls]

The Dillon has a crimp starter on the next to last position on the carousel. Haven't ever had any unfired hulls, but imagine it's up to the task starting out fresh. The starter is made to rotate and find the old crimp or (I guess) provide a newly started crimp for the final stage.

Bob Falfa

 

[Carl_in_NH]

The starter is made to rotate and find the old crimp or (I guess) provide a newly started crimp for the final stage.

Sounds like the same configuration as my old MEC. I mentioned the Ballistic Products Crimp Starter because the rotating one on the MEC does not do a good job on new hulls. Works fine on fired hulls, but not on new ones.

 

[fastarget]

Good info thank you. Might use an old single stage mec with a crimp starter as you descibe to form the hulls first

 

[VegasJordan]

Ballistic Products had them In Stock for a while but people caught on, now out of stock. They are cheaper, but it’s a hull with a primer for less than .20 (after shopping, and tax for me).

 

[fastarget]

Nice looking crimp, what are you using