Shotshell Reloading Crimp 12 gauge
Thinking about one of these bc what ballisticproducts com looks expensive just to get started or have an option to roll my own
Any thoughts?
The other thought I had was a drill and vise grips players and this…
Forest Camping 12GA Roll Crimping Head + Adapter for drills Shotgun Shell Reloading Crimp Reloader12 gauge
I watched the iv8888 vid on it recently
There’s much more to making a good shotshell than the crimp. Do you have a way to do the rest?
To me it looks like something to have and never use.
Enlighten me… I’m all ears… From iv8888 video it sounds like buying pre primed hulls, some nitro cards and powder and then a good crimping tool does it, slugs for cheaper than the shelf… Idk
Check out the Ballistics Products website. Lots of good stuff for shot shell components.
Yeah I may buy some things from there, just wondering if anyone has done it without their $80ish press tool
Midway has this but if I can do it cheaper I will
https://www.ballisticproducts.com/mobile/Hull-Vise-select-size-in-Options/productinfo/VISE/
45ish for same thing on ballistics site
The OP mentioned shotshell loading, now you’re discussing slugs and not shotshells. My post was regarding the original word used, where wads need to be put under pressure, and shot measured out; basically shotshell loading (shotshells contain shot).
If you had mentioned slugs instead of shotshells I’d have written nothing since I know nothing about it.
no problem - I am just searching for guidance. I can buy a book also I suppose, but my thought on it and the video from iv8888 is why spend 45$ on a vise thing that just holds the shell the same way a vise grip pliers could (midway/ballistics sell). The Amazon option is 10$ cheaper but if I just need to buy the crimper for 10-15$ and I have a vise grip pliers or vise… idk was hoping someone would chime in who ‘rolls their own’ for 3" or something
As I wrote, I know nothing about it and it would be nice to change that.
Please let us know how it works out for you.
sometimes the proper tool will make the job easier time wise, vice grips versus block - once set the time you save using the block plus the stability would out perform the “cheaper” vice grips. Especially when pushing down with the power crimper, or the fact using the pliers is a two handed operation with the possibility of having the hull fall over or be damaged by the jaws…
I’ll get some primo-vice grips 
This looks a a very inexpensive way to get into shotgun reloading.
I used to reload for shotgun with a Mec unit.
After spending a long cold winter loading hundreds of round in anticipation of spring matches, I gathered up all my stuff and my remington 1100 and headed for the range.
Only to find it was gone!
The whole place had been sold to a developer who never built a single house.
Gone, gone.
It was a long drive to any other club so I sold the 1100 and a winter’s work of ammo.
Life isn’t always fair.
Oh well.
I may still have shot them somewhere else in your predicament but yeah that’s my goal - maybe roll some slugs and try to do it for cheaper than I can buy them, a light monetary solution to being able to start in reloading sort of - not for match shooting
I have progressive loaders for 20 and 12 gauge and non progressive for .410 ,20 and 12 gauge along with thousands of wads and primers and pounds of shot and powder . And I can’t load shells cheaper than I can buy them. I just keep all that stuff for when I can’t buy ammo .
Learned last time is was unavailable didn’t ya?
What ones do you have?
Never ran out I learned from my parents and grandparents who lived thru the depression to always keep a good stock of ammo . And I stack it deeper than they ever did.
They would be considered conservative? 
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