Mitty, when I load my Hi-Per steel shot loads I found I could not drop #'s 3, 2, and 1 steel shot down the 12 ga. tube. I also used to have trouble with lead 4's in the 20 gauge. My solution is to take a used primer tray, one of the otherwise most useless pieces of detritus in the reloading room, and use it to dip shot from a wide mouth container and dump into the shot shell I already have prepped with a small funnel in it. I weigh a correct charge of shot, count the individual pellet, and then use one empty CCI primer tray for a full 100 pellets and a second tray with all but 32 holes covered with duct tape. The procedure really goes quite smoothly. I prep a tray of 50 shot shells to point where they are ready for shot, fill them all, and move on to crimping. No jamming of the charge bar trying to work it back and forth with coarse shot either this way.
Thanks for the advice. If this New style tube kit works, then OK. But if #4's jam I will definitely be doing it you way.
Outside of 50# of 7, I only have #4 shot. As of yesterday's count 225# of it. So the advice is greatly appreciated.
Looks like everything looking down that barrel except lucky X will be getting a dose of 4 lead for quite sometime.
That press was in really good shape once I got her cleaned up.
That is a first gen Jr. Once cleaned up and oiled she works real smooth.
Amazing how well those old presses hold up. Found out besides the Teflon tube I ordered. I was able to get the rest of the parts from MEC or Ballistic products. Including a standard tube if I decide the other is a gimic.
Amazing at the availability, interchangeability, and options available in parts for the old girl.
I should be able to have her working full tilt for about 40 bucks and and very little work. Screwing it down to the bench today.