Best way to resize shotshell bases?

Dakota Widowmaker · January 28, 2006, 10:23:56 PM

What is the best way to resize the bases? I use a Lee loadall Jr, which has no provision for resizing the bases.

I only reload BP, so, getting a brand new MEC is not an option...I just would not use it.

Ideas?

john boy · January 28, 2006, 11:26:18 PM

Dakota, if you are going to shoot them in the same shotgun that they came out of last ... there is no need to resize brass hulls.
I have 3 reloads on some of mine, none have been resized and they still shuck easily.

Pappy Morgan · January 29, 2006, 01:09:43 AM

Hey Pard,
Mec makes a shotshell resizer that you can buy............it is not to expensive. I have one here that I have used for several years.

http://www.1st-shooting-supplies.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=1SS&Product_Code=8119&Category_Code=MECreload

Copy and paste that link.

Pappy

Lou Graham · January 30, 2006, 08:33:30 AM

Ah, yes, been there, done that DW!
I load BP for a very picky 16 ga. She won't shuck just any hulls.

The MEC squisher-thingy in the link Pappy put up works great. I even squish the brand new hulls. The Lee Load-All costs less that the MEC but the MEC is at least made out of metal

Maybe you can find one used. They are very well-made and if you get one, it should last forever.

Big John Denny · January 30, 2006, 03:16:04 PM

I used the Mec Super-sizer for years in both 12 and 410 on my original Mec 600 Super loader. Since Mec came out with it's newer loaders I've upgraded to a 9000G that has the super-sizer built in.

Lucky Irish Tom · January 30, 2006, 04:17:54 PM

My Lee Load All came with metal sleeve I use in the first stage that resizes the base, maybe you can look on the Lee site and just buy that sleeve!

Nine Toe Jim · January 31, 2006, 08:26:38 AM

Howdy,

I use the Mec Squishy thingy too for my hulls that I load with Black powder and I really like it. It's Fast. I have the Lee load all with the separate sizing ring. The ring is a little slow and that's why I bought the Mec sizing machine a number of years ago.

Silver Creek Slim · February 02, 2006, 08:41:24 AM

I have a "MEC squisher-thingy"

for 10 ga. I was having Win shells stick in my gun. I bought mine from Midway USA.

Slim

Lars · February 05, 2006, 08:11:30 PM

As already noted by Lucky Irish Tom, Lee Load-Alls come with a little sleeve for resizing the bases on the same down stroke as the depriming. They are then removed from the base on the same downstroke as the primer seating. I have use them since back in the 1970s and they do a very good job.

Lars

Diamond Fred · February 09, 2006, 04:52:58 PM

For the Magtech brass i use a loading die from CH tool and die co. it resizes the brass and punches out the spent primer and then reprimes them. You use the die in a RCBS press and then finish loading powder, wad and shot in a MEC loader. The dies can be had from www.CH4D.com and by the way they also have a roll crimp die for 12 ga brass shells.