Best hand primer

Love my RCBS
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Take care, Willie
 
I have been using the new Lee ergonomic hand prime tool. I don't care for it as the primers will jam right before going onto the ram and then pop the cover from the tray. Wish I had a chance to try it before buying. The problem is caused by the safety measure created to isolate the primer that is being inserted from the other primers. Not something fixable by the consumer.
 
I've got three:

Lee ERGO Auto Prime: I agree...PITA. hate it.

RCBS: OK but not perfect. They could make this easier to change things and keep the dang pin from falling out of the unit. Works good though.

Lee Auto Prime: My favorite of the three but can't figure out how to make .300 WSM fit in mine.
 
I've had the Rcbs, Lee and the Hornady. IMO the Hornady is the best tool, you can feel the primer seating the best. The priming tools that are one primer at a time might be better, but I don't want one without a tray.
 
The Sinclair is really nice and I might buy one when they put tray on it. I have tried the newer Lee hand primer and I do not like the tray so I robbed parts that someone else here from PM sent me because he has one of those really nice Sinclair's and built another old style... Thanks Jeff again!!
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That gives me several so I am not constantly having to switch LR to SR and I have back-ups of my back-ups.

On that same subject my buddy just bought one of Daryl Hollands new bench mounted primer tools which is a modified RCBS that is supposed to be the cat's meow on consistent seating depth. It comes with a primer seating depth measure so I just happened to have two ammo containers of .308 in my vehicle that I seated primers with my 1978 model Lee hand primer. I decided to see how they compared to the stuff he was doing on his new machine. Mine varied less than his and less than what Holland says is acceptable which IIRC was .003. I am not saying that just anybody can get those results... after all how many 1978 model Lee hand primers are out there and I am right-handed left-eye dominate which has some bearing I am sure.
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The lee that I use offers enough feel to tell when the primer is properly seated. There is better! but the lee works well for me for common reloading.
 
The old Lee Auto Prime. Mine just started waring out and have the New Lee Ergo and a RCBS. Haven't done enought to get used to them but they ain't the same. May some one will realized we need a better tool than is out there and come up with the perfect hand primer that has a tray on it. I would pay good money for one.
 
On the Sinclair and 21 century is there no tray?
As i said I'm new to this
The guy that is going to teach me has been reloading a long time he said you should not touch primers with your hands is this the case? If so how do you put the primers in these without a tray?
 
Originally Posted By: EDPOn the Sinclair and 21 century is there no tray?
As i said I'm new to this
The guy that is going to teach me has been reloading a long time he said you should not touch primers with your hands is this the case? If so how do you put the primers in these without a tray?



The 21st century uses the Lee tray, round or square. Very nice tool.
 
Presently I'm using a Lee hand primer. I sort of modified it . I drilled a small hole through the handle. Then I threaded the hole and screwed in a stainless bolt with a double nut on the side of the bolt that bumps against the primer body. The bolt end bumping on the primer body is where I adjust off of. Trail and error on adjustments quickly gave me the primer depth I wanted. This was about 1 year ago. Checked some cases yesterday and it's still seating at the depth I set it for and it's quick.
 
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