Priming with a hand held tool vs. Press

[WhoKnowsWho]

Which do you use to prime your cases?

 

[coonan357]

I use both the rcbs hand primer when I want to knock out a large amount while I watch tv . and the lee autoprimeII to which attaches to my press when I am in my reloading room . ussually I use the AP when my hands are giving me fits or when I have a buddy over reloading with me .

 

[Sisco]

I load on a Lee turrent, prime with a Lee hand prime. Usual procedure is to take a couple hundred freshly sized & polished cases, inspect them & prime them while watching TV. Now & then I can even talk one of the kids into sorting the brass for me.

 

[WhoKnowsWho]

Ahh, the benefits of kids, slave labor!

 

[Jeeper]

WHen I load on my rockchucker i use the hand primer. My dillon does it for me.

 

[benewton]

Going with the Jeeper...

Rifles go through the Rockchucker, since I wonder about the safety of delubing brass via the tumbler, and so go the hand route.

Handgun ammo goes through the 650, and so, priming is its problem.

 

[swifter]

After some failures with my Lee handprimer, I went to a Bonanza/Co-Ax bench mounted primer tool, on s wood block, C-clamped where I need it. You really can adjust all the slop out of one of these.I remove and discard the primer seater from my single-stages, and no longer load for rifle on my 550 because I don't like the way it seats primers .
Tom

 

[PaulS]

I was going to click on the vice and rubber mallet but my hammer isn't rubber.
I actually have and use two Lee hand - held priming tools. I only tried twice to let the press do it and it didn't.

PaulS

 

[Flash Hole]

I use a RCBS ram priming unit P/N 09165
I have the system down that allows uniformity and speed.
I dont think Rcbs makes this unit anymore.

JOHN

 

[Mannlicher]

I find myself using the RCBS hand primer more and more. Like others, priming while watching tv works for me. I do not load a heavy volume of cartridges, mostly straight wall hand gun stuff.

 

[444]

Like the other guys I use my Lee hand priming tool when I am loading on the single stage press and I prime on the press when using my Dillon 550s. I used the Lee hand priming tool for about close to 20 years before I got the progressive; the same Lee tool the whole 20 years.

 

[Standing Wolf]

My Rock Chucker has been an outstanding press for three decades; its priming system, however, didn't give me a feel for primers, and the feed tube, no matter what I tried, occasionally tipped a primer sideways. Hand priming takes longer, but seems to give me more consistent, better results.

 

[Stephen Ewing]

I'm another guy who just can't get a good enough feel with the press. Too much mechanical advantage on the Rockchucker for me, and after I broke two of the Lees, I switched to the RCBS hand primer.

 

[Don of Kalifornia]

On rifle cartridges I use the RCBS, as I use my Dillon like three single stage presses, but for pistol I use the priming set up on my Dillon.


Don of California

 

[Mal H]

RCBS hand tool for pistol and rifle.

 

[shootingfarm]

When I use a single stage press I use a Lee hand primmer, when I use my Dillon SDB the press does it and does it very well.


Paul

 

[jw29650]

I use the hand primer. I have tryed to use the priming arm on my Lee turrent, but it does not seat the primer deep enought when using the auto advance function. For rifle loading, I use the Lee hand priming tool with great success.

JW

 

[Steve in PA]

Rockchucker single stage press.......why change something thats not broken.

 

[RugerSAFan]

RCBS Hand Primer.
I seemed to get the primers stuck in the very beginning, but after
the first 500 rounds, not a problem. Pretty quick in my opinion...

 

[chagasrod]

http://www.youtube.com/user/chagasrod#p/u/4/X6XNny8euIE

 

[jhansman]

Just installed the Lee Safety Prime on my SS press tonight. Worked like a charm, and a whole lot easier on my aging hands than the hand primer.

 

[Steve C]

I generally load handgun ammo that gets shot a lot on my Hornady LNL AP and use the priming operation of the press.

For small batches of rifle or handgun ammo and for load development of under a 100 or so rounds in a session I use a single stage press and most often a Lee hand priming tool.

 

[Palehorseman]

Lee hand primer, I like the feel of positive seating of primers.

 

[mbopp]

I use a Lee hand held priming tool for everything using small primers. I don't load that much large primer stuff so it gets primed on the Rockchucker.

 

[EddieNFL]

Depending on what I'm loading, all of the above. Mallet and vise are for extreme situations only.