jcwit
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A lot of us started with this kit. I would not recommend it today. For just a little more you can get into a Lee press. The Lee Loader kit has several limitations, it only neck sizes the brass. After several firings your brass will need to be full length sized in order to chamber correctly. The dipper that comes with your kit will only work with certain powders, and there is no adjustment. Seating primers can be hmmm, entertaining with a hammer. Buy the Lee press kit and you can use it the rest of your life, add dies for more calibers as you need to and truly reload ammo to maximize your rifle's capabilities.
I reload .223 for shooting off the bench with a Remington 700VLS. I have cases that have been reloaded 70+ times now with only neck sizing. No need yet to bump the shoulders back, AKA full length resizing.
Millions of rounds have been reloaded using only the dipper system. Many of them loaded for accuracy only.
With a hand primer you can feel the primer seat and no chance of it going off. Believe me a lr primer is nothing to fool around with as they are very powerful.
After the initial learning curve having a primer go off will likely really be the exception. As far as how powerful the LR primer is, ya, it'll go BANG, but that's all that will happen. No it will not blow the primer setting rod out of your fingers or destroy your reloading area.
If they were as dangerous as some let on they would have been out of production years ago.
I only wish I could get Lee Loaders in all the calibers I reload for.