The New Lee AutoPrimeXR Highly Recommended

[cbabes]

I recently posted about a Federal primer blowing up while reloading some 9mm in my Lee 1000. Lee Precision recommends loading Federal primers by hand.

BTW if you ever wondered why Federal primers take up so much room in their boxes it's for safety reasons. They are more prone to chain detonate than other primers.

I decided to get a cheap Lee single stage just for removing primers, a universal decapping die and the Lee AutoPrimeXR. I stuck the "decapping station" in between my presses.

I tried it out for the first time decapping and priming 200 casings with Federal primers. What a pleasure. The learning curve on the hand primer is much, much shorter than the Lee 1000. The Lee 1000 on the other hand can make you loose a few hairs on your scalp before you learn to run it smoothly.

I am just going to pop the decapping pin up on the Lee 1000 and run the primed cases through all three dies.

 

[fraidknot]

Thanks All!

BTW I totally agree about priming on the PRO 1000, it takes a bit of fiddling to make it work smoothly.

 

[Jarlath]

What's with the metal bracketry screwed onto the wood?

 

[cbabes]

What's with the metal bracketry screwed onto the wood?

Completely useless.

 

[Shootshellz]

I gave up on the Lee auto-prime years ago. For me, the Hornady brand hand priming tool is aces...

 

[cbabes]

I gave up on the Lee auto-prime years ago. For me, the Hornady brand hand priming tool is aces...

What made you give up on it?

 

[umlaval7]

I see it's redesigned to be square now. The one I have is round and it's impossible to dump the Federal primers in it without spilling some on the floor.

 

[cbabes]

I see it's redesigned to be square now. The one I have is round and it's impossible to dump the Federal primers in it without spilling some on the floor.

Yes you can dump any primer box right in. I love it. Runs very well.....

New Lee Auto-Prime XR

The Lee Auto-Prime the original automatic hand held priming tool patented and introduced in 1979 has been improved. Ask any old hand the best way to prime and guaranteed, Auto Prime will be the first words from their lips. The Auto-Prime had just one limitation; only certain brands of primers can be used because some brands could chain fire if used improperly.

Anyone buying primers today knows finding your favorite brand of primer can be difficult if not impossible. If you have been loading for a few years you also know that the packaging has become larger. The new Auto-Prime XR eliminates the primer brand restriction so any brand primer is now usable.

The new Auto-Prime XR features a patent pending elevator pin. This pin safely separates a single primer from the others and presents it for priming reducing the likelihood of a chain fire. The new tool also has a new unbreakable comfort curve lever and large and small primer trays with slide on covers that comfortably accepts all brands of primer boxes.

 

[Kevin M.]

Where did you get yours?

 

[cbabes]

Where did you get yours?

I ordered directly from the LeePrecision website because no Canadian dealer had everything I wanted. They shipped it to my door in 5 business days.