View Full Version : Device of cutting open failed shotshells?
beeser
11-08-2015, 05:48 PM
How's this for cutting open shotshells to retrieve the components?
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bdicki
11-08-2015, 05:58 PM
Keep your fingers out of it.
too many things
11-08-2015, 06:18 PM
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
11-08-2015, 06:25 PM
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
11-08-2015, 07:31 PM
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
11-08-2015, 07:42 PM
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
11-08-2015, 07:54 PM
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
11-09-2015, 08:34 AM
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
11-09-2015, 09:12 AM
Box cutter.
dudel
11-09-2015, 10:48 AM
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
11-09-2015, 07:04 PM
Here is an even fancier one: http://www.ballisticproducts.com/Trim-Doctor-Shotshell-Case-Tool/productinfo/TRIM/
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