Case Priming - Hand vs Bench Mounted

Hand Priming vs Bench Priming

  • Hand Primer

    Votes: 85 71.4%

  • Bench Mounted Primer

    Votes: 10 8.4%

  • Priming separately is a waste of time, I prime on the reloading press.

    Votes: 24 20.2%
  • Total voters
    119
  • Poll closed .
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For those who have used both, which is your preference, and why? When I say bench mounted, I mean a dedicated priming only press. I guess this only applies to the single stage people, or if you prime before using a progressive.
 
I personally use an RCBS hand primer. However using a single stage/turret press or hand primer allows for seating depth by feel (and get a feel for primer pocket looseness). I found that progressive presses (that I have seen/used) seat to set depth "X" and care less if the pockets are loose/out of spec.
 
I use the priming thingamajig on my Lee turret press and it works great. It primes on the up-stroke, which allows for a good feel, like Jarlath mentioned, for loosened primer pockets, etc.
 
This is what I was thinking for the bench mounted priming tool, its the RCBS APS bench primer. Just wondering if anybody prefers something like this.

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Lyman Ram-prime for me,

I tried using the one my redding press but i had a hard time getting proper depth on new brass. I find the ram prime gives good uniform depth and its quick enough for my purposes.
 
For handgun on a progressive press, I use the feeder on the press, otherwise its too slow. But for rifle cartridges I am priming with a Lee hand primer. Its fast and you get a good feel for what its doing. Also, you can sit in front of the TV and prime some cartridges.
 
I like using the hand primer. You get a feel for pocket expansion, you get another casing inspection in case of flaws you missed previously and you are not stuck at a bench . I do my priming while watching TV and it does not seem so tedious. I reprime about 300 -400 casings at a time. A lot depending how often I shoot .
 
This is what I use. It has the best "feel" of any hand or press-mounted tool I have tried. It is also very quick if you have a large number of cases to prime.

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Grizzlypeg said:
For handgun on a progressive press, I use the feeder on the press, otherwise its too slow. But for rifle cartridges I am priming with an RCBS hand primer. Its fast and you get a good feel for what its doing. Also, you can sit in front of the TV and prime some cartridges.
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Fixed it for me!
 
Lee auto prime by hand, all the time for pistol and precision rifle. I feel them seat properly and its alot faster, plus big fingers too clumsy to insert each little primer in the damn pocket of the press each time and eyes too bad to find them on the floor when I miss.
only thing primed in press is my 2 shot gun MEC presses.
I can take my primer tool 3-500 primers and some tupper ware up stairs and watch tv while I do it, I feel each one sink in.

Mike.
 
Grizzlypeg said:
For handgun on a progressive press, I use the feeder on the press, otherwise its too slow. But for rifle cartridges I am priming with a Lee hand primer. Its fast and you get a good feel for what its doing. Also, you can sit in front of the TV and prime some cartridges.
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+1. Better feel for the rifle cartridges (and I don't include AR fodder in this, as it goes on the progressive). - dan
 
I use both, depends on what I am doing... press priming for some stuff, pistol calibers etc.. lee hand press for rifle cartridges that I want to be exact with..
 
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