This guide picks up where the MEC shotshell reloader owner's manual leaves off. For the tens of thousands of MEC shotshell reloader owners, this guide answers the question of how to reload fast, flawless shotshells. It provides step-by-step instructions that not only aid the beginner, but help accomplished reloaders increase their speed with no loss in quality.
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Jonathan M. Rozek is a competitive skeet shooter and owner of several MEC shotshell reloaders. He encountered and solved dozens of problems while reloading many thousands of shotshells. He realized that other shooters worldwide are no doubt challenged by the same issues, but may not have discovered solutions to them. So he developed this guide to systematize the setup and operation of MEC reloaders, thus saving both time and money for shooters that apply the principles he covers.
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Bolt the reloader down to the right surface.
You will be amazed at how lead bounces. When you spill shot--which you will repeatedly do--it will hit your hard table and bounce to the floor. One friend of mine solves this by bolting his reloader though a large baking tray that has a lip running around all sides. Another solution is to put thin foam rubber, carpet or other soft material around your reloader to catch the ground balls. If you can bolt your machine down, do it. MEC says you can reload by bolting the machine to a piece of plywood. This may be true (done that), but you are much better off to bolt it to something solid. Once you try it, you won’t go back. Either find a surface you can drill four holes in, or worst case, bolt it to a plywood sheet large enough that you can clamp the sheet to the table. What’s the big deal with bolting? If you have it loose on a plywood sheet, some of your downstroke effort must go to stabilizing the machine, instead of 100% of it going to a solid downstroke. You will gain speed and save energy by not having to keep the reloader in one place. Also, powder drops can be more consistent with a bolted-down machine.
Be careful with the bottles
Don’t torque down the powder and shot bottles too tightly. If you do, thinking you’re just making them snug, you risk flattening the brass ring that acts like a seal over the powder drop. Doing so can remove its sealing capability, and more powder will leak out from the shot bar as you reload. This is especially true with the unusually fine-grained Winchester powders.
Adjust the primer drop mechanism to gain speed
Spend time to set up the primer drop mechanism. It’s the toughest part of the setup to get calibrated. But getting it right will save you tons of aggravation. MEC instructions were at first not clear to me about what to do with the retaining clip, a black clip that is flat on one side and an open half-moon on the other. It comes from the factory loose in a bag. It goes between the primer tube and the screw that locks the primer tube in place. Really tighten that primer screw. If you’re too gentle, when you pull the handle, the chain that actuates the primer mechanism will also pull the primer tray to the side, messing up your calibration.
Another speed-increasing adjustment
I’ve seen more than one reloader come out of the box with the shell lifter not operating properly. This device holds the shell up in Station 1 so the Shell Carrier can move after depriming. Check the following to make sure yours is OK: Look in the space right above where the spent primers fall into the tray. You will see a small plate attached to the bottom of a rod. That’s the Shell Lifter Bracket. (Buried in the manual, MEC only says that the ‘Shell Lifter should go in the yolk [sic].’ This is a reloader, not an egg-poacher. I think MEC means ‘yoke.’) Anyway, rotate the bracket to make sure it is straddling the shell lifter, the removable rod that sits in Station 1. When it’s positioned right, the shells will be resized on the downstroke, and will return up so they can be easily rotated to the deprime station.
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This review is from: MEC Shotshell Reloading Secrets, Second Edition (Paperback)
I am an avid skeet shooter, and own 3 MECS- 1 9000G and 2 9000Hs. Much of what is in this book is helpful. Unfortunately, I had already learned many of the book's suggestions the hard way through making mistakes. This book would be very helpful to the beginning reloader who purchased a MEC machine. I do not agree with one of the earlier reviews, which states that "there is nothing in this book that will give you any more insight..." Even though I have used MEC machines for 4 years, I still found some helpful pearls in this monograph.
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I think this book was worth the money as it helped improve my knowledge and relationship with my machines. It filled in several gaps in the factory manual. MEC should have reviewed it and added to their 9000G manual. With four 9000G's I liked it and found it quite helpful. I'll take all the help I can get.
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