Device of cutting open failed shotshells?

[beeser]

How's this for cutting open shotshells to retrieve the components?
https://img0.etsystatic.com/018/0/6364542/il_570xN.518918122_9hod.jpg

[bdicki]

Keep your fingers out of it.

[too many things]

sell it on ebay and you can get a plastic pipe cutter that works much better, Home Depot sells them for $9 and they work very good

[dolfinwriter]

sell it on ebay and you can get a plastic pipe cutter that works much better, Home Depot sells them for $9 and they work very good

I find these all the time at the place we go shooting when I pick up whatever brass I can find laying around. I just use any box cutter type of knife that uses razor blade refills.

[Reverend Al]

Not completely positive, but I think it's actually a tobacco cutter? In the old days of country stores and bulk goods the shopkeeper would have this on the counter and cut you a length of dried tobacco. Someone who is a bit more knowledgeable on antiques then I am could tell you for sure ...

[jsizemore]

I'd use a pvc/pex pipe cutter instead of the tobacco cutter. You can cut over a bowl with the pipe cutter. The tobacco cutter would have stuff strew everywhere.

[gwpercle]

Not completely positive, but I think it's actually a tobacco cutter? In the old days of country stores and bulk goods the shopkeeper would have this on the counter and cut you a length of dried tobacco. Someone who is a bit more knowledgeable on antiques then I am could tell you for sure ...

Nailed it ....somebody give that man a cigar.
Some were flat, called leaf cutters others were used in stages of cigar manufacture . The flat cutters were used to cut the dried tobacco on the shopkeepers counter.

[USMC87]

I use a carpenters knife and cut the end off the unspent cases that I find at the range, It's always good to recycle free components.

[Garyshome]

Box cutter.

[dudel]

Utility knife or box cutter. But if you want to get fancy https://www.precisionreloading.com/cart.php#!l=DD&i=DL111

If I'm doing shot loads, it's less expensive to buy a box of 25 shells with the right shot size and salvage the shot; than buy 25# of shot. Don't use that much for 357Mag shot shells.

[376Steyr]

Here is an even fancier one: http://www.ballisticproducts.com/Trim-Doctor-Shotshell-Case-Tool/productinfo/TRIM/