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I picked up a couple of thousand wolf primers from Wideners the other week ( QQQSR223 KVB-223M SMALL RIFLE (Hotter primer 5.56 loads)) and I've ran into an interesting problem with them. I did a test load of 100 rounds off .223 with the wolf primers and H335 using a fairly standard load recipe...

Thanks to everyone for their advice. It turns out that the Hornady aluminum drop tubes are identical to the RCBS plastic drop tubes - just metal instead of plastic. In addition to that, they are cheaper than RCBS or the other aftermarket drop tubes. Problem solved.

I thnk it's more of a wear and tear issue. The drop tubes work fine - for a while. I've noticed that after a few thousand rounds (depending on the caliber - .223 seems to be the worst) the shell seating becomes poor and uneven and the drop tube starts to "stick". The uniflow measures used to...

It seems that the one major weakpoint with the RCBS Uniflow powder measures is the horrible plastic drop tubes that are now standard on their powder measures. I'd like to stick with my Uniflow, but I'm tired of the cheap plastic drop tubes. Does anyone know if the Hornady metal drop tubes...