mergus wrote:Hi Sitka! Nice collection of short 10's you have there. I have 2 Rem 1894's, one with 32" barrels and the other with 28" barrels. The 28"s look to be original....
Any how, the reason I'm commenting is on reloading short 10's. I've bought and not been too happy with some of the various hand loading kits advertised on the web. I thought about a MEC for 10 ga, but didn't really want to go through the rig-a-marole of changing the thing around for different loads. So I started using my Lee Load All II for priming the cut down Fed hulls I use. Normally I use a roll crimper on all my hulls, but I was looking at the 1st and second crimp station on the LLA II and I think if a person were to take the "top" part of the unit to a decent machine shop, they could open up the holes .050" or so that would allow 10 ga hulls to fit in there. Then a person could use fold crimp hulls as is from RST and others.
Just a thought....
Mergus
I use a MEC 600JR 10 gauge had to buy it new as 10 and 16 used 600JR's are hard to come by .
I've already talked with Ponsness Warren about making me a LS-1000 for 10 gauge 2 7/8" and I anticipate going that route if I stay with this goose hunting thing .
In the past I used Ponsness Warren 800C's for the 12 , 20 , 28 and 410 . Now I'm doing MEC 650's for the 12 , 16 , 20 a Grabber for the 28 and still a 600JR for the 410 . SO down the road I may also get another Ponsness Warren 800 Plus with extra heads/die sets for the other four gauges . But I'll still need to keep the 600JR's for easier loading of buckshot and slugs in the 10 , 12 , 16 and 20 gauges .
I have a pile of loaders at the moment !
10 gauge a 600JR
12 gauge a 600JR and 650
16 gauge a 600JR and 650
20 gauge a pair of 600JR's and a 650
28 gauge a 600JR and a Grabber
410 bore a 600JR
I would rather get down to ,
10 gauge 600JR and PW LS-1000
12 gauge 600JR
16 gauge 600JR
20 gauge 600JR
And a PW 800 Plus with heads/die sets for the 12, 16 , 20 , 28 and 410 .