Odd loading tool

A pure "wild guess" - maybe another part "clicks" onto the top - held by that cir-clip? Would look like a bullet seater - thread into press - run the case up within - insert a bullet through that milled opening?
 
I just looked up what is a Lee Ram Prime - I never used one like that - appears that another part to mount to the ram on the press is needed - that thing screws into top of the press, then normal press shell holder "clicks" into it. Would allow user to seat the primer on the ram's "up" stroke, not the "down" stroke.

I started with the Lee Loader "whack a mole" sets - pounded a case into the sizing die with a soft ended hammer - they did not use such a thing - I suspect it could be made to work on that hand clamshell lever Lee press, but the threads on it suggest it needs to go into a press of some sort - not real sure what you mean by a "Lee handloader".
 
Dan - I have an RCBS Bench Mounted primer tool set up on table beside me as I type - uses "rams" very similar to shown in your picture in Post #7 - I have used so far for Large Rifle Primers and Small Rifle primers - two different ends to hold different diameter primers, but "ram" body looks similar to each. Is a metal lever that presses up on bottom of those rams - I use this thing because it also uses the same shell holders as my RockChucker press, and has long tubes that hold about 100 primers - is similar RCBS device that bolts on to the press itself - but I have never used it yet. I would suspect there must be some relationship between diameter of the "ram" used, and the hole up through that body - to get that "ram" more or less lined up through the hole in the shell holder? Or, maybe the attachment to the press's ram keeps things straight enough to go into the shell holder hole?
 
BattleRife said:
Yes, Lee Ram-Prime body is my guess.
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I am going to recant, I believe it is the body of the Lee Autoprime II. Similar design to a Ram prime, but with a bigger opening up front so that a primer feed chute can fit in.

They are used with bench-mounted single stage presses. I actually own both this and a Ram Prime, but don't use either of them anymore. I got tired of one more stage of threading things in and out of the top of my O-frame press. If I ever move to a QD bushing single stage press I might start using it again, there was nothing wrong with it as a system. But for the time being, it isn't worth the trouble of me getting a spare for a system I don't use.

 
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