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Fingers McGee · April 6, 2011, 11:29 AM

If you are using 'NEW' primed hulls, have they been skived (had the mouth thinned)? Trying to do a star crimp on an unskived hull is next to impossible. I've had the same problem with 'NEW' STS hulls as well as some used 10 ga 3 1/2 inch hulls that I shortened to 2 3/4. A MEC Steelmaster press wouldn't even make a good crimp on an unskived hull.

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April 6, 2011, 11:29 AM	#16
Fingers McGee Senior Member Join Date: March 19, 2008 Location: High & Dry in Missouri Ozarks Posts: 2,113	If you are using 'NEW' primed hulls, have they been skived (had the mouth thinned)? Trying to do a star crimp on an unskived hull is next to impossible. I've had the same problem with 'NEW' STS hulls as well as some used 10 ga 3 1/2 inch hulls that I shortened to 2 3/4. A MEC Steelmaster press wouldn't even make a good crimp on an unskived hull. Check out Ballistic Products: http://www.ballisticproducts.com/searchprods.asp __________________ Fingers (Show Me MO smoke) McGee - AKA Man of Many Colts - Alter ego of Diabolical Ken; SASS Regulator 28564-L-TG; Rangemaster and stage writer extraordinaire; Frontiersman, Pistoleer, NRA Endowment Life, NMLRA, SAF, CCRKBA, STORM 327, SV115; Charter member, Central Ozarks Western Shooters Cynic: A blackguard whose faulty vision see things as they are, not as they should be. Ambrose Bierce