What kind or brand of priming tool is this?

[Gewehr98]

I was going through some boxes of reloading things a late friend left with me, and this neat little priming tool showed up inside a box of dies. It has threaded shellholders for .38 Special, .30 M1 Carbine, and .45 ACP/.308/.30-06 etc.

I'd like to find out who made it, because it only has a small primer seating stem, and I'd like to use it for my .30-06 and .308 handloading. I'm leery of using a small primer seating stem in the large primer shellholder.

Any guesses, folks?

 

[dodgestdshift]

It looks like an old Lee Precision primer seater. I am looking at one for the 357 magnum and its the spitting image.

 

[Johnny Guest]

One I can answer!

That's the one by Lee Precision. A older one, with the screw-in shell holder.
Not sure, but I believe it's still in production. Fairly inexpensive.


There's another, later, version, that uses interchangeable shell holders, too, and uses the Lee tray so you don't have to handle the primers.

Best
Johnny

 

[Johnny Guest]

See this page of the Lee website. It shows the later version. I see the old ones at gun shows pretty regularly. Ask your older, busier gun shops in your area.

Best,
Johnny

 

[Gewehr98]

Yeah, I've got one of the later Lee Auto-Prime tools.

I didn't catch the resemblance until you folks mentioned it. The large diameter primer pin is too long to fit into this older unit. I didn't see the link you pointed to, Johnny, but I know where to dig for support now. Thanks, gents!