Reloading tool Identification help

I purchased the lot listed below and was wondering if anyone can help me with the hand tool that looks like a shotgun shell crimper?


https://www.etsy.com/transaction/1433325028

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Thanks!
Alex

The link doesn't work for me, but the hand tool in the picture is a shotshell tool for depriming Berdan primed shotshells and re-priming them.

sorry about the link but i appreciate the reply, I got the whole lot for $35, not sure what I am going to do with the box of UMC primers

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The rule of thumb with primers that old is: “If they aren’t corrosive, they’re mercuric.” If mercuric, a lot of them will be duds as well.

Looks like somebody tried to put the handle for a Lyman/Ideal lubrisizer or primer pocket scraper on that boolit mould. What is the caliber, if I may ask?

There looks to be a bunch of NOS Tomlinson Cleaners there. They were used to scrape the lead out of shotgun barrels before the advent of shot cups. I guess they could be used to scrape the melted plastic from the cups out of the barrels now.

I think that little aluminum-handled screwdriver is a S&W factory accessory. I got one in an otherwise empty S&W box and was told it is a red-hot Collector’s Item with S&W fans. Haven’t tested this out by trying to sell it, though.

Is that square thing on the lower left a magazine for a rifle or pistol?

You certainly got $35 worth of Stuff there, if you can find a use for it.

Ihe square thing is what I believe is a magazine for a Remington model 742

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Originally Posted by Bent Ramrod

The rule of thumb with primers that old is: “If they aren’t corrosive, they’re mercuric.” If mercuric, a lot of them will be duds as well.

Looks like somebody tried to put the handle for a Lyman/Ideal lubrisizer or primer pocket scraper on that boolit mould. What is the caliber, if I may ask?

There looks to be a bunch of NOS Tomlinson Cleaners there. They were used to scrape the lead out of shotgun barrels before the advent of shot cups. I guess they could be used to scrape the melted plastic from the cups out of the barrels now.

I think that little aluminum-handled screwdriver is a S&W factory accessory. I got one in an otherwise empty S&W box and was told it is a red-hot Collector’s Item with S&W fans. Haven’t tested this out by trying to sell it, though.

Is that square thing on the lower left a magazine for a rifle or pistol?

You certainly got $35 worth of Stuff there, if you can find a use for it.

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You are correct in saying that the small screwdriver is a S&W item. They were in every new handgun box that S&W sold for many years. They were included with a small aluminum cleaning rod and a bore swab. I had over a hundred of these at one time that I received at the S&W schools I attended plus from the new service revolvers we got in to issue to our LEO personnel. I still have them in all of my gun boxes. We would drill a hole in the handle and carry one on the keychain. Later David

thanks guys! The mold is an Ideal 3118, just cast some boolits with it the other day, the come out clean. I posted some of this stuff in the swappin and sellin if anyone is interested.

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