I am so last century

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I just recieved my brand new RCBS Universal Hand Priming Tool from MidwayUSA. For the last several years I have been using the priming arm on my press, and finally decided to move up a hundred years or so. What a differance, had no idea. Did 100 9mm cases in a flash, safely and easily.
NowI gotta dismount that priming arm, get it outa the way...:D
 
I'm still behind the times, I have no desire to use a hand primer. I hear great things about them, but I have always primed on press and I like it. I don't see any reason to change, especially a reason that adds another step.

Still, I'm glad you like it. I suppose the reason they are so popular is because they work.
 
I really like the Lee Auto Prime. You have to buy a special set of shellholders for it, but you can prime a pile of brass alot faster than the press mounter arm. It's nice never having to touch the primers.
 
NowI gotta dismount that priming arm, get it outa the way...
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Yep!

Both of mine have been gathering dust in a junque box for a long long time now!

It's amazing how good it works isn't it!

especially a reason that adds another step.
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Priming at the press is adding another 100 steps every time you use a box of primers. You have to pick every single one up by hand and put it in the primer arm don't you?

rc
 
Oops double tap...
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I'm still trying to figure out this double tap thing. every time I accidentally double click it only posts once??

Anyway, I'm priming on my press with the Lee Safety Prime...are these hand priming systems really that much easier / better?
 
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All you guys can move up to the "new fangled" hand primers. I stay with my 23 yr old Lee Auto Prime II press mounted die system...:D
 
Only 23? My press is 29 years old, RCBS single stage, love it. Not so old as a former friends Hollywood Gunshop turret press he had, 1920s I think, and still going strong!
 
As I have stated in other posts the Lee Autoprime is the only way for me now on, unless I have to load any of the WIN short magnum family, they don't fit the tool even though I have the proper shell holder. I have two of them, one set up for large primers and one set up for small primers.
 
I am a new reloader, but having good results with the RCBS hand priming tool. Doing it on the press would bother me, as there is potential to apply too much force.
 
I agree that too much force can be applied using the press mounted arm, and you have to handle each and every primer. BTW- I too am stuck in the 1800's as I load every round (9mm to .45/70) on an old single stage Rockchucker and absolutely refuse to load a round on a progressive!!! I did buy a progressive press as a birthday gift for a friend, tho.
 
I think I loaded a couple hundred rounds with the press ,arm and tube, just to see how it worked, then went to the RCBS hand held.

Now I have two the RCBS, and a Lee. I like the Lee a little better it seems it is a little more sensitive and I can feel the primer bottom out better than the RCBS.

I use my thumb to push on the "flipper" on the Lee, where as the RCBS is designed for 3 or more fingers to operate the "flipper", which in my opinion makes the sensitivity go away because the force is spread out over a larger area (3 or 4 fingers).

Also the the "flipper" linkage of the RCBS bottoms out just about the time the primer fully seats and does not give me the feed back that the Lee does.

I can feel the force it takes to seat the primer fully, this is especially useful with cases that have been loaded multiple times, you can tell when the primer pockets are getting loose.

I made two longer "seater" rods for the RCBS , small and large primer, this makes the "flipper" stop well short of the grip portion.
 
The Lee Auto Prime II uses a flip tray and a tube to dispense the primers one at a time to the primer seating die. You don't have to handle them at all. And as far as applying too much pressure when seating primers on a press. You will learn finess and won't have any problem with "too much pressure". You can feel (sense) can't you?
 
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Priming at the press is adding another 100 steps every time you use a box of primers. You have to pick every single one up by hand and put it in the primer arm don't you?
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Not at all, I use either the Lee Safety Prime on my LCT or Breech Lock Challenger or the RCBS feed tube on the Rockchucker. I ususally use the Safety Prime since I like the system better, but I don't find it takes any longer to fill the feed tube than it does to fill the safety prime tray and get all the primers facing the right way.

I prime when either resizing or belling (for handgun and straight wall rifle), so no extra step to prime.
 
I picked up a Lee hand primer ~6 los ago thinking that I just had to have one.

Needless to say, I haven't used it yet.

Priming with the Safety Prime while loading semi-progressively on the LCTP is just to easy...

Hand primers are suited for batch loading, which I do very seldom.
 
The Lee Auto Prime II uses a flip tray and a tube to dispense the primers one at a time to the primer seating die. You don't have to handle them at all. And as far as applying too much pressure when seating primers on a press. You will learn finess and won't have any problem with "too much pressure". You can feel (sense) can't you?
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You can do the same with a hand primer too. It just doesn't as long in the "finesse" part of the learning and you can "feel" how much pressure you're have to use. A good example is when you're priming a hundred cases and one or two either go in too tight or too loose you pull the case and check the primer pocket. I don't think the auto primers do that for you. But I'm no expert with them so I'm just guessing.
 
I won a RCBS Rock Chucker kit at the NRA national meeting in Phoenix last month. I had absolutely NO reloading experience whatsoever. I asked the RCBS rep why they included a hand primer tool when the press could do it. He replied that it was their not-so-subtle way of telling their customers to use the hand tool and not the press. If the company rep is saying this, I can't figure out a good reason to disagree with him. So I use the hand tool, and have never used the press (yet).
 
The Lee safety prime is pretty foolproof. never touch a primer - load 100 at a time - really hard to screw up the seat for 9mm.

Now a "DEPrimer I might want separate. I know I want separate. Heck, I'm going to get one.

Any recommendations for pistol only?
 
xd45gaper, using the press is quite slow and tedious, and requires handling each primer inidividually. The hand primer is MUCH faster, and no skin oils or other fluids on your skin contact the primer material
 
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