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| < 16ga. Ammunition & Reloading ~ Imperial Hulls |
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Fri Apr 01, 2022 5:42 pm
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Found some new primed Imperial hulls for sale. Anybody ever load them?
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Fri Apr 01, 2022 6:12 pm
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| Yes, and I still have a couple bags of new primed hulls like yours. My problem w/ them was that they were un-skived and I was pretty new at the 16 bore reloading game. I'm sure I would have much better success w/ them now. I think I still have the data sheets. They load fine w/ Cheddite info. |
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Fri Apr 01, 2022 6:26 pm
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| I haven’t bought them…..yet. Are they a paper or plastic basewad? |
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Fri Apr 01, 2022 11:11 pm
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 Blast from the past I grew up shooting that stuff out of 16 Model 12 .Shot my first everything with them . Still have a few all mine are paper base wad even have some loaded paper shells. Herco 20.0 gr CCI 209 Rem SP16 1OZ lead . 1155 VEL 7500 PSI . Herco 23.5 CCI 209 Rem SP16 1310 vel 10,000 PSI 1OZ lead. Lyman 3RD Edition . |
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Sat Apr 02, 2022 5:10 am
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| Tom Shaffer wrote: |
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Yes, and I still have a couple bags of new primed hulls like yours. My problem w/ them was that they were un-skived and I was pretty new at the 16 bore reloading game. I'm sure I would have much better success w/ them now. I think I still have the data sheets. They load fine w/ Cheddite info.
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So, what do you do to load un skived hulls? |
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Sat Apr 02, 2022 8:01 am
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| BPI sells a power skiver that you use with drill, or they also make a super crown crimp starter for MEC loaders. |
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Sat Apr 02, 2022 3:16 pm
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df,
You can load almost any load in an unskived hull. Skiving helps with 8 point crimps, but 6 point crimps really don't need to have a skived hull.
IMHO, there is no need to skive a hull, it makes the hull thinner and more susceptible to cracking at the crimp folds. Never seen it help a 6 point crimp.
I always use a load that has the proper wad column height, I don't touch any adjustments on my Sizemaster, I use the MEC crimp starter and the crimps come out very nice and flat.
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Sat Apr 02, 2022 4:01 pm
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| [thanks for comments re skiving or not….[/u] |
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Sat Apr 02, 2022 6:18 pm
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| win7stw wrote: |
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I haven’t bought them…..yet. Are they a paper or plastic basewad?
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Mine have a plastic base wad. |
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Sun Apr 03, 2022 6:14 am
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| I never mess with skiving. |
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Tue Apr 05, 2022 6:02 am
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| Tom Shaffer wrote: |
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I haven’t bought them…..yet. Are they a paper or plastic basewad?
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Mine have a plastic base wad.
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If they have plastic base wads they were made by Fiocchi for CIL all Canadian production had paper base wads. The primer in the pic looks like Fiocchi the CIL 4BP were all brass . IMHO if your load column is correct and the crimping station is adjusted properly skiving is a waste of time. |
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