Mike, sorry I've been off air for a few days. I was lucky enough to pick up some brass cases which make for easy loading. I don't use the tooth pick method but just seat an over shot wad and use either a glue gun of waterglass (sodium silicate) as an adhesive. The case heads, if using standard fired cases, can be swaged down using a tapered brass tube and knocking them through otherwise with compression formed cases like Winchester AA's is to just peel of the brass head. If you get really, really stuck I can send you one of my inserts to use as a pattern. Beauty with those is that they can be used in any bore case. Lagopus....
