Old Winchester reloading tool /New decapping pin.

[dusty texian]

Well finaly got a roundtooit. Have had this Winchester reloading tool in 45-75 wcf along with the bullet mould for a while. Have been shooting bullets made in this mould fer a while ,and reloading the cartridges with the tool. But like most reloading tool's found ,the decapping pin was missing with this set.Have been decapping by hand with pick and mallet.Shure I could use the modern dies and press. But I like useing the old tool's for the antique rifles.Not having a 45-75 decapping pin to measure ,I looked at some pictures of some, in the 1876 Winchester book, and I have one for my 40-60 wcf.Took some measurements from a fired case neck id. OAL and pin size chucked up some steel round in the lathe and about an hr. latter ,this is what I came up with.I think it look,s perty good and works real good. Decapped about 15 cartridges with it so far.Put a pic. of the new pin on the left and the original 40-60 pin on the right.........Dusty.

[dusty texian]

That first pic. the pin is in the fired case ,Here is another pic.

[Grizzly Adams]

Very nice!  You may have found yourself an "egg money" job.   Lots of folks looking for those puppies!

[wyldwylliam]

Mighty nice Dusty. If I had that equipage I'd for sure use it too. It's all good when you can do the old stuff in the old way.

[buckskin billy]

cool beans pard

[Buck Stinson]

I've been using original Winchester tools and molds for many years to load for the .40-60, .45-60, .45-75 and .50 Express.   I've found that they work much better than modern dies and molds in my original Winchesters.  All of my tools have the original decapping pins, but I don't use them.  I have shell holders  for these cartridges and use Lee's universal decapping die, which works very well in my Rock Chucker.

[dusty texian]

Thank's for the kind words Feller's ........Dusty

[Mean Bob Mean]

That is extremely cool.