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Your Favorite Hand Primer Tool?????

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unfy:

--- Quote from: JimP on January 12, 2013, 01:47:42 PM ---The thing loads a single primer into the priming arm at the top of the stroke, and the case is primed at the bottom of the stroke. Slick.
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As far as lee stuff goes the Lee Pro 1000's seem pretty narly about it.  Just gotta keep an eye on the primer feed ramp to make sure it's always full. 

The lee safety prime "pinch it" rocker arm thing does seem kinda neat... and I think RCBS offers something similar.

The Hornady LNL AP -> fill a tube, place it on press, and you don't do much else.  When you finish a full up / down stroke of the RAM, you push the handle towards the table/press a bit - it lowers the ram a bit more causing it to seat the primer.  No finger manipulation of anything.  I have had a few instances of it not feeding a primer into the shuttle near the end of 100 round run... people have suggested placing a small brass case on the 'rod' thing... and it can help.  For what it's worth, I also drew an 'empty' marker on my primer follower rod.  Picture later if needed.

As mentioned, rcbs has an auto prime attachment for their rock chucker.  A primer tube is mounted diagonally on the press, and then a lil primer cup gets moved back and forth from the tube to the ram.

The Lee 1000's just do it automagically with normal strokes as far as i know.

Not entirely sure how the Dillon 550's and such do their feed & primes.  Looks similar to the hornady lnl but without as much movement in the primer feed shuttle.  No clue about actual seating the primer.

JimP:
Having seen pics of the blast damage/ damaged tubes and primers and primer parts stuck in various things ..... I'm not a real fan of stacking 100 little explosive devices on top of one another in a metal tube ...... YMMV.

unfy:
I imagine the RCBS tool is similar...

But now that I've got the Hornady hand primer in my possession .... it takes regular shell holders rather than custom ones (looking at you, Lee!).

You can swap out shell holders without removing the primer tray.

It comes with two trays, one for Hornady shell holders and one for RCBS shell holders.  The RCBS tray works with the Lee shell holders as well.

The primer tray and lid are round.  The tray has small opening on one side, large opening on the opposite side (one tray does both size primers).  The Lee primer tray's "primer righting divits" are little pegs sticking up, the Hornady is a series of rings (like a normal primer flip tray).  The little round MTM flip tray doesn't quite fit it perfectly (neither tray nor lid).

The seating plug is retained (doesn't fall out), similar to the Lee, but unlike the RCBS apparently (at least the one demonstrated to me).

00BUCK:
Not sure what model of RCBS you guys are talking about but the universal's seating plug is captive and can not fall out.

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