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Originally posted by Rocky Raab
Welcome to HuntChat, RRusse! I'm honored that you made your first post (and such a good one!) here in this forum.
Allow me to return the favor...
You can save all the trouble with the crimp die - and the inevitable cracked case mouths - by simply running a tiny bead of hot glue around the edge of the over-shot wad after it's in place.
That's how I assemble my 45 Colt shot loads, and even multiple shots don't dislodge the wad. It also waterproofs the load!
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Rocky,
Thanks for the kudos. I take the point on glue, but with my Lee turret press, and the FCD die set, it literally takes seconds to apply a light crimp. No problem with case cracking yet, I'll anneal if it looks like happenin'. I've put well over a 1000 rounds of 410 downrange in the last coupla' months, and have never had a problem with the straight cardboard. They go into a 50rd plastic box and it's off to the range.
Haven't tried the rounds in a pump or lever action, I'm an o/u fan, but I figure the rounded end of the case would help feeding.
Lol, and I don't have a hot glue gun. The mess and seperate operation of dabs of glue would be too time consuming for my purposes, IMHO.
I load up a hunnert or so in ~ an hour I'd guess.
I've only recently taken up with trap and claybirds,,,,, I'm finding that you put a LOT of rounds downrange, and get a LOT of shooting in. {:o).
Cheers,
R*2
Ps. Is Ken Howell still working on his book? I stumbled across a copy of "Cartridges" on Ebay, and I'll buy that and his rumoured work on the Rifle if they're available from him.