I also use one myself.

This is most likely a one of a kind. It's for a 219 Donaldson Wasp rimmed. From an estate in Modesto, CA of a jacketed bench rest shooter. He was a well accomplished machinist as well as a competitive shooter.

Have shot  alot of years with  Werner Wolf. I have a mold he made.He also made deprimers. It was his powder measure that floored me.For duplex loading. First pull dropped the smokless powder,hit a side lever,second pull dropped the BP. Wish I could of gotten a pic.

Wish I’d gotten to know Werner Wolf, Shalkaho.  I only met him briefly @ Etna Green once IIRC, and was so new to the game I didn’t know to take advantage of the opportunity.  I’m mostly familiar with his re- and de- offerings and found them to be top drawer.  Maybe we ought to start a separate thread to just discuss his work.  I know I’d read it enthusiastically!

rkba2nd wrote on Dec 21^st, 2022 at 4:23pm:


Makes more sense. The upper left is the style most commonly linked to Schoyen, or Schoyen-Peterson.
The tool in Dutcher's book does have curved handles, but I haven't seen curved handles on any of the most common style Schoyen tools like the upper left tool pictured.
Werner Wolf made his tools copying Schoyen's design. And there were at least a couple other guys making Schoyen copies.

As I mentioned, John Dutcher wrote articles on de-recappers for the News in 3 three installments. Not sure of the date for the first, second 11/12 1983 and third, 3/4 1984. A good place to start, but not necessarily for modern copies, or recent designs. I will attempt to dig up the date for the first installment. in a box somewhere? I even have an index, probably in the same box!

CBA, a really like those last two you posted. They are elegant. Frankly, he says ducking, "Pope" re and de look like they belong next to a bowl of walnuts. Here's a Po (that's a poor boy's Pope) tool made by one of our members that has served me well with my 32-40. Not elegant but very well made and highly efficient and small and light enough to slip in a shirt pocket. By the way, my most used decapper is an old 310 tool I use during BPCR matches to decap before drowning my fired cases in a jug of dishwasher soap before leaving the range. With no changes it handles 38-50, 40-60 Maynard, 40-65 and 45-70;-).

To not be totally ethnocentric, here is a European re and de we'll call a Poer. It is for Berdan primers and you can see it is marked 8mm. I picked this up long before I had a need for it and was only reminded I had it when the need arose to reload some Berdan primed 8.15x46R. It turned out that apparently that is what it was designed for. The lower handle has a head diameter hole with a rim sized recess. The rotating plate attached to one of the screws comes into play for depriming. The middle handle has a circular protrusion that has a hole that the primer chisel comes through and the protrusion is of a proper diameter to seat a primer with pressure only on its edges when the two lower handles are closed. The top handle only comes into play to activate the primer chisel. Once the chisel has been inserted into the primer, the top two levers are held together and the primer is lifted from the case which is held in place by the rotating plate with the lower handle being in the other hand. Sounds complicated but is easy in use.