Seating Primers

[witchhunter]

I reload in batches of fifty to two or three hundred. I size, then tumble, trim if necessary, chamfer and deburr, then sit on the couch and hand prime sometimes several different calibers while I act like I am enjoying the Fashion Police on the E channel with my bride.....

 

[savanahsdad]

I use a Lee hand primer, the old round tray variety...works great, but I saw the Lee Ergo Prime at the lgs, and I couldn't resist. After a week of use, I went back to the old Lee priming tool. The old style drops primers straight onto the ram, the new one basically has a tiny elevator that moves a primer up into the ram area between seating operations...every so often two primers get jammed onto the elevator thing and pop the cover off the tray. I like the handle of the ergo better, but it's not enough to make me want to permanently switch. Only priming I do on press is with my LNL progressive.

+1 . I like the old Lee better too. however all my handgun rounds are done on my Lee loadmaster these days

 

[Vodoun da Vinci]

I load on an old RCBS JR2 single stage press and in this incarnation as a hand loader ordered and have been using the Lee Ram Primer -



I scoped the RCBS unit as well but it's twice the price and out of stock everywhere (or was at the time) so I went with the Lee unit. It is unbelievable, simple, quick and effective. Professional and accurate primers every time. I primed 100 rounds of .32 ACP in about 12 minutes and every one is factory perfect and precision seated.

I think I paid like $16 for it and it is the coolest thing for me and my single stage since sliced bread. Beats hand primers and the flipped over primers and spilling and all that. Way more "feel" than the stock primer arm that comes with most single stages.

VooDoo

 

[Lee S. Forsberg]

No one using a Sinclair priming tool? I thought Sinclair would be very popular.