Are you still using a hand priming tool? WHYYYY??????!!!

Tinman204 said:
I use a lee hand primer and I've yet to have any issues. Works good and I can prime 100s of brass sitting on the couch watching TV. Also it's easy to feel a loose primer pocket with a hand priming tool vs priming on a machine.

Also, call me crazy but I for one will never feel comfortable using a priming tool that stacks primers in a tube. A fellow on a Facebook page just posted pics of himself in the hospitol after he had a primer filled tube go off while priming. He said it was the first time in 25 years it had happened. Poor fella has severe burns to his face and damage to one of his eyes.

I'll keep handpriming for that reason mostly.
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the same thing could happen with any hand primer maybe a little less violent but not by much. i wonder if he was wearing eye protection.
 
silverfoxdj said:
Hmm never really thought it was a good idea handling the primers that much but in a pinch it would work okay..
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Ya i was kinda worried about handling the primers to much but I wash my hands right before I prime the cases and so far i haven't had a problem.
 
Use the Forester co-ax for 308 and larger calibers. Easy enough to pick one primer, drop in, get a nice feel seating the primer with ease. Worst case blow up one primer. Found out during testing if after you keep pushing (after primer seated) the co-ax is strong enough that it bend the base of the case but no primer blowup.

For all smaller caliber use LNL.
 
Does anybody have a better method of filling the Coax primer holder? The little tray build into the base seems small and awkward.

I was wondering about using the tray from a hand primer and sliding the Coax holder into the "spout" to receive the primers.
 
Snapshot said:
Does anybody have a better method of filling the Coax primer holder?
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I don't find it that bad. I have two of them. One of them has a rough texture similar to a flip tray, that makes it easy to get the primers right-side-up by agitating. Inexplicably, the one I bought last year is smooth - why did they do this?

After they are oriented correctly, you just press the tube into the recessed area, and let the primers slide in by raising the opposite end of the tool. Easy.
 
I've been using a Lee hand primer for a lot of years, mine is the old style with threaded shell holders so i'm screwed if i need some new ones as they have been obsolete for many years. Then i have to use the primer arm on the press which i don't like to do. May have to update my system of priming.
 
I have used the Sinclair hand primer tool for almost everything I load. With the adjustable anvil, you can adjust the depth and feel of the tool. It has amazing cam strength and you can feel the primer slide all the way to the bottom of the pocket. Very precise and consistant!

I dont load thousands of rounds at a sitting, so no need for a faster set up.
I handle my primers with my index finger and thumb. I keep my hands clean and dry, and have never had a missfire or any traceable issue with my primers.

I normally load a max of 100 rounds in a sitting, and intend to spend some quality time doing it. Thats what I love to do. Its all part of the circle of shooting.
 
Have used the RCBS hand priming tool for years. The LEE was used once and put up for sale on EBay. When I'm not using the RCBS tool, I'm priming on my Dillon 550B or 650XL. Just had to buy extra primer tunes to keep the progressive beasts fed. :)
 
Rod B said:
I have been using the RCBS hand primer tool for more than 20 years. It does the job & I have no complaints after many thousands of rounds reloaded using this tool..
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Same here. But I'm a sucker for advanced technology, and something new and shiny.
 
Unless I'm using my progressive I prime using my RCBS hand prime. Hands never got sore, but being a mechanic gets you fairly tough hands. Honestly for me the biggest thing I hate is filling primer tubes for the progressive. Thank jebus for the Frankford Arsenal vibra prime.
 
I never liked loading primers one at a time, using the press to do it. Don't much like loading tubes of primers, either. I used the old round tray Lee for a lot of years, they were cheap, handles broke, shellholder heads broke off, but, they worked the best of the various stuff I tried out. I had all those old Lee pcs kicking around, and splurged on a 21stCentury body to use with them. That works the best of everything I've used. Their body, with the Lee square tray, is the best of both worlds. Ya, you need shellholders, but, it is quick to load, and it it adjustable for depth, and is built like it should be, it will last a lifetime. I tried an RCBS and a Hornady, no comparison.
 
yodave said:
I bought one almost 20 years ago, and I have used it to seat many many many thousands of primers with it over the years. However, 20 years ago when I got it nothing bothered me more then having to lift the handle up every time to lower the ram so I could get the case into the shell holder, and again lift it up to remove the case after the primer was seated.

For almost 20 years I have been holding out on sharing this simple fix to automate half of the process, I used a spare key ring that fit over the shell holder, an old spring off those now almost antique folding lawn chairs we grew up around, and a drill and a tap with a machine screw, the picture is pretty self explanatory, when you let go of the handle the spring returns it to the up stroke, I only have to push the handle down to either seat a primer or load the ram from the primer tube...............:cool:


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In 20 more years I might share another trick or two.................but for now, you know how I prime
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OMG! You are a genius! *Face palm*

20 years? Really?
 
I have had an RCBS bench priming tool since the 80's. It has seen so much use the wire spring that pulls back the tube holder broke. Used a carburater throttle spring to keep loading and its still doing the job. Tried Lee and Sinclair priming tools, but like the RCBS. Good feel with bench priming tool, easy to feel the primer bottom out in pocket.
 
Snapshot said:
Does anybody have a better method of filling the Coax primer holder? The little tray build into the base seems small and awkward.

I was wondering about using the tray from a hand primer and sliding the Coax holder into the "spout" to receive the primers.
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Vid on you tube .. poster cut a corner out of a RCBS primer tray ( stand a lone ).. ( top and bottom, as wide as the tube ) works great for me, but I love hand priming and upgraded to an APS hand primer the other day, found one NIB for $60 Canadian .. rounded up a loader and some strips.

Used Lee ergo prime for a few years but tired of the top popping off .. all in the way you hold your mouth. Could have done the brass wing nut mod to the lee Ergo for $1.00 .... but it had it's chances to behave .. my son can have it ( young wrists ). I can prime upside down with the APS system. I have the Coax primer tool for military .223 .. also a Dillon swager .. more $ than brains ..

I have to keep up with the boy priming the brass as he first stages it on the forster press .. no time for popped top breaks with the Lee. He is 40 I am 62 .. must save face :) Always start with deprimed SS tumbled brass .. no hard priming
 
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I realy went low budget when I started reloading 2 years ago and I've been priming on the press until recently. I was tired of handling the primers one by one and bought a used Lee auto-prime (older round tray model). I love it! Priming is now easy and a more enjoyable step than before.
 
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