Ram Prime vs. Press Prime. vs Hand Prime Debate away!
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pete dobinson
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I liked the Lee hand held round tray primer, that was until the pot metal lever broke on the last couple that I bought. I ended up with a tray full of parts. At the moment I got the bench mounted Lee primer with the triangular tray and hate the bloody thing. Primers get hung up in it. The FA one looks to be the ticket, I'll have to get one.
Agreed. Started out with the autoprime II and have a feel for it, so why change
But I did add a step of using a Lyman prime pocket uniformer just for the peace of mind, on occasion it adds a shiny spot to the pp so tells me it is taking a touch of brass
this way all primers are prezactery the same crush
I dislike priming on my Rockchucker too. I bought the priming tool for it and tbh I'd like to shove it up the engineers ass who designed it. Might make a fun childs toy with all the hunting and pecking away at primers but beyond that it belongs in the trash. It works acceptably once adjusted and filled. Problem is I'm sick of it before the first tube of primers is loaded. I have an older Lee hand primer with the square tray that is still going. It has never let me down, although it sometimes flips the odd primer. Easy fix. I have the Lee bench mount primer since I already have a lot of Lee priming shellholders. It was steaming crap out of the box. The new primer tray should be shoved up the engineers ass. His luck, it would probably pop open when he didn't want it too and make extraction as frustrating as trying to use it on the priming tool. A just reward, IMO. The mechanical chunk of plastic that controls the feed of primers is not qualified for its job. It often requires I pull the handle down and let it fling back up to jostle a primer through it. It has gotten better but still F's up every now and then. Feel is ok, not great but certainly effective. I have the FA handheld priming tool. I believed the marketing about consistent primer seating depth and have another request to shove something up the offending engineer's ass. Both seating depth and the adjustments are no more consistent than seating by feel and the adjustment wheel is not true. Every half rotation it loses detent tension and freewheels. Atleast the primer tray doesn't suck on it. Maybe I'll try an RCBS handheld next. I have no idea how I'm going to track all these engineers down or how lengthy the court proceedings for each warranty return will last but if I can just find a priming tool I don't hate maybe I'll leave the engineers alone.
21st century is the answer. About as simple as it gets. Good feel and size. No tray or gravity feed system to mess with. Probably costs less than all you’ve mentioned put together but actually does the job well.
Hard to disagree with this. I bought mine from E.E on a whim and I got lucky. Good size, the feel is solid, you don't need a lot of strength to use and it's build like a tank.
I am not sure how many of you have seen this but there is a quiet a talk about primers as an important part of never ending "small group/accuracy" chasing.
I get it, this is stupid expensive and 99.99999% of us don't need it BUT it's interesting to listen to what the "pros" are using and their thoughts behind it.
Cheers,
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