Different methods to trim shotshell hulls. The tool I show is from www.loadertools.com. I found the guy on eBay. It was around $30. I am not sponsored. By ANYONE.
Excellent tool. Another gadget I want, thanks! LOL. Great presentation. There's something I've been thinking about: not many people shoot regularly. There are the guys who go to the range every weekend, and even those who compete. I'm not on that level. Mainly, I don't have the time or money. Then there are guys like you and I who shoot a little almost daily, or at least a few times a week, but not at an official gun range. We have our haunts and stop after work to send off a few rounds, almost therapeutically. We make our own powder, cast our own projectiles, and keep our guns fed by home made means. What makes us do it? It isn't a religion or even a passion. To me it is just a steady curiosity about finding out what works and what doesn't work. And there is the thrill of hitting something you are aiming at. And as cheesy as it may sound, the report of a firearm does sound like freedom. Blah blah blah...maybe if I smoked some Hippy lettuce I could come up with more philosophical ramblings! No, but really! Keep shooting...a shot of whiskey and few rounds per day keeps the medical industrial establishment at bay. Thanks now I need that trimmer...I think I will start with the pvc one.
Great post man… I reload.. I dunno. My dad reloaded and taught me .So I have been doing it my whole life. Then I joined the military…14 years in the Army. Several deployments. Then worked for years and years as a cop. Working the beat, detective, K9, SWAT, CSU, USMS Task Force, plainclothes… have done a lot. So basically my whole life has revolved around firearms. It’s just part of who I am now, I suppose. Reloading IS therapy. Building something that goes boom and hits the intended target. The recoil, the smoke…there’s a peaceful calm in the violence of it all, if that makes sense. And, of course, the knowledge of it all for when the fecal matter impacts the oscillator. And it will.
@@mcschneiveoutdoors3681 thanks for the reply to my ramblings. Much respect to your vast experience. I wish I had taken that path. You know when a person like you predicts SHTF, it is going to. I think we are living the book of Revelation now. WW3 is a spiritual war, and every soul is a battlefield.
Stopped by a sporting goods store today and didn't find anything in the shotgun reloading area. They did have bags of 8 and 9 shot lead. In the muzzle loading area of the store I found some thick 1/2 lubricated wads labeled 12 gauge. I didn't know there were 12 gauge muzzle loaders. Also found some 12 gauge over shot cards and some patches. I got these items because I'm waiting on my Ballistic Products orders. I'm trying to shoot .69 caliber balls from my 12 gauge, so loaded a shell with my home made black powder, an overshot card, then two of the lubricated 1/2 inch wads, then the ball. My "new" crimper wasn't working and I figured out that the ball was touching it, not allowing it to do the roll crimp. I think I need a stout overshot card on top of the ball. I ended up just patching the ball, which kept it in place. When I shot it from 25 yards or so, it hit about 12 inches low and to the left. I'm not impressed with my ability to shoot these balls yet, and am leaning towards focusing on buckshot. My whole goal was to have a simple firearm for survival hunting that can take small or large game. My current bug-out zone has elk and bear as well as deer, so I was hoping the 69 caliber balls would be accurate with primitive loads. It is a very brushy landscape, so I don't need long range shots.
Well.. the experimenting is still fun, at least. In the videos that I load my 7/8 slugs and the round ball I put an overshot card on top for that very reason. The ball digs into the crimper. I have decent luck with the .710 round ball on target. I’ll have to do some more to refresh my memory, tho. But, I pretty much just stick to #4 birdshot and #’s 2 & 4 buckshot.
@@mcschneiveoutdoors3681 thanks for the reply. Good to hear you also need an overshot card on top of the ball to crimp it. Now I want a .710 ball mold ha ha....just having fun experimenting.
One presumes you do this because you plan to roll crimp the trimmed hulls. Why? I'm fairly new to reloading shotshells, but from what I've seen, you can put a fold crimp over most slug and all buckshot loads, and avoid two steps: trimming the hull, and roll crimping, in favor of the fold crimp stations on the same reloading press you'd use for birdshot. The other reason I can see might be to get another couple loadings out of a shell with the crimp starting to split by loading it shorter -- but you'd need different wads and data, and by the time the crimp starts to go, the interior of the shell is usually starting to get rough -- rough enough you'll get only another two or three loads from the shortened hull. Now, I can see this if you have a ready source of 3" hulls and a 2 3/4" shotgun -- once fired and trimmed hulls will load about like new -- but how many people are in this situation?
Hey...thanks for watching, first of all. I've been reloading shotshells for about 40 years. One of my chores as a 7 year old child was to reprime bags of hulls. You are absolutely correct on the various reasons to trim and roll crimp. For years and years I spent time sourcing brands and sizes of shells, wad and powder to crank out shells at a consistent quality. I have had various shotshell presses throughout the years. However, not everyone has that blessing. Some people use, and most have throughout the history of shotshell reloading, homemade tools to reload them. Very seldom do I use a press these days. And very seldom do I use particular hulls and wads. I use whatever I have laying about. Shotshell reloading can be as complicated or simple as one desires. Granted, I lose some consistency doing that. 95% of my shotgunning these days is propping up clay targets and paper and shooting them. A little small game hunting here and there. So..... I have a wide variety of hulls. I mostly stuff them with black powder or a substitute, various wadding and various shot. A roll crimp is the best for my purposes.
Excellent tool. Another gadget I want, thanks! LOL. Great presentation. There's something I've been thinking about: not many people shoot regularly. There are the guys who go to the range every weekend, and even those who compete. I'm not on that level. Mainly, I don't have the time or money. Then there are guys like you and I who shoot a little almost daily, or at least a few times a week, but not at an official gun range. We have our haunts and stop after work to send off a few rounds, almost therapeutically. We make our own powder, cast our own projectiles, and keep our guns fed by home made means. What makes us do it? It isn't a religion or even a passion. To me it is just a steady curiosity about finding out what works and what doesn't work. And there is the thrill of hitting something you are aiming at. And as cheesy as it may sound, the report of a firearm does sound like freedom. Blah blah blah...maybe if I smoked some Hippy lettuce I could come up with more philosophical ramblings! No, but really! Keep shooting...a shot of whiskey and few rounds per day keeps the medical industrial establishment at bay. Thanks now I need that trimmer...I think I will start with the pvc one.
Great post man… I reload.. I dunno. My dad reloaded and taught me .So I have been doing it my whole life. Then I joined the military…14 years in the Army. Several deployments. Then worked for years and years as a cop. Working the beat, detective, K9, SWAT, CSU, USMS Task Force, plainclothes… have done a lot. So basically my whole life has revolved around firearms. It’s just part of who I am now, I suppose.
Reloading IS therapy. Building something that goes boom and hits the intended target. The recoil, the smoke…there’s a peaceful calm in the violence of it all, if that makes sense. And, of course, the knowledge of it all for when the fecal matter impacts the oscillator. And it will.
@@mcschneiveoutdoors3681 thanks for the reply to my ramblings. Much respect to your vast experience. I wish I had taken that path. You know when a person like you predicts SHTF, it is going to. I think we are living the book of Revelation now. WW3 is a spiritual war, and every soul is a battlefield.
Stopped by a sporting goods store today and didn't find anything in the shotgun reloading area. They did have bags of 8 and 9 shot lead. In the muzzle loading area of the store I found some thick 1/2 lubricated wads labeled 12 gauge. I didn't know there were 12 gauge muzzle loaders. Also found some 12 gauge over shot cards and some patches. I got these items because I'm waiting on my Ballistic Products orders. I'm trying to shoot .69 caliber balls from my 12 gauge, so loaded a shell with my home made black powder, an overshot card, then two of the lubricated 1/2 inch wads, then the ball. My "new" crimper wasn't working and I figured out that the ball was touching it, not allowing it to do the roll crimp. I think I need a stout overshot card on top of the ball. I ended up just patching the ball, which kept it in place. When I shot it from 25 yards or so, it hit about 12 inches low and to the left. I'm not impressed with my ability to shoot these balls yet, and am leaning towards focusing on buckshot. My whole goal was to have a simple firearm for survival hunting that can take small or large game. My current bug-out zone has elk and bear as well as deer, so I was hoping the 69 caliber balls would be accurate with primitive loads. It is a very brushy landscape, so I don't need long range shots.
Well.. the experimenting is still fun, at least.
In the videos that I load my 7/8 slugs and the round ball I put an overshot card on top for that very reason. The ball digs into the crimper. I have decent luck with the .710 round ball on target. I’ll have to do some more to refresh my memory, tho.
But, I pretty much just stick to #4 birdshot and #’s 2 & 4 buckshot.
@@mcschneiveoutdoors3681 thanks for the reply. Good to hear you also need an overshot card on top of the ball to crimp it. Now I want a .710 ball mold ha ha....just having fun experimenting.
Well that's a nice little trimmer. I don't know what your spouse turn your old way or that way. Keep your powder dry!
One presumes you do this because you plan to roll crimp the trimmed hulls. Why? I'm fairly new to reloading shotshells, but from what I've seen, you can put a fold crimp over most slug and all buckshot loads, and avoid two steps: trimming the hull, and roll crimping, in favor of the fold crimp stations on the same reloading press you'd use for birdshot.
The other reason I can see might be to get another couple loadings out of a shell with the crimp starting to split by loading it shorter -- but you'd need different wads and data, and by the time the crimp starts to go, the interior of the shell is usually starting to get rough -- rough enough you'll get only another two or three loads from the shortened hull.
Now, I can see this if you have a ready source of 3" hulls and a 2 3/4" shotgun -- once fired and trimmed hulls will load about like new -- but how many people are in this situation?
Hey...thanks for watching, first of all.
I've been reloading shotshells for about 40 years. One of my chores as a 7 year old child was to reprime bags of hulls. You are absolutely correct on the various reasons to trim and roll crimp.
For years and years I spent time sourcing brands and sizes of shells, wad and powder to crank out shells at a consistent quality. I have had various shotshell presses throughout the years. However, not everyone has that blessing. Some people use, and most have throughout the history of shotshell reloading, homemade tools to reload them. Very seldom do I use a press these days. And very seldom do I use particular hulls and wads. I use whatever I have laying about. Shotshell reloading can be as complicated or simple as one desires. Granted, I lose some consistency doing that. 95% of my shotgunning these days is propping up clay targets and paper and shooting them. A little small game hunting here and there.
So..... I have a wide variety of hulls. I mostly stuff them with black powder or a substitute, various wadding and various shot. A roll crimp is the best for my purposes.
Osculating tool work real good for that