GW Staar
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I'm done with that business, the boom tube. Its a finicky system at the best of times anyway- and I know im not alone in that lamentation. This just kinda ices the cake.
Someone replied to you that they find it hard to fault the design itself! Why, because it's a deified blue Dillon? If it makes you all feel any better, RCBS primer tubes blew up before Dillon was a company. When I quit "boom tubes" they were on my Rock Chucker and people were getting badly hurt 40 years ago! Dillon added a sleeve to the system.... it didn't stop the explosions but the bandaid did direct most of the energy away from the loader part of the time. Trouble is, kabooms can happen before they even get sleeved, don't they.
Blarby, you have every right to be angry with the design. Those primer systems are DESIGNED for perfect people who never make mistakes......know any?
What angers me, is that RCBS & CCI designed a great, safe primer system, using boxes of primers safely preloaded in strips, and together they actually made priming faster as well as much safer than tubes ........so now ...... RCBS offers us their brand new progressive models this year......and they've gone back to pipe bombs! Why? Because the majority of progressive reloaders are stilled convinced that they don't need a safe primer system, absolutely certain a kaboom won't ever happen to them.
Heres another kaboom posted on YouTube....at least this guy wasn't hurt......as usual Dillon got accolades for designing a great bomb diverter that shoots holes in your ceiling and ruins your ears!
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