Comments on: TECH Tip: Check Your Primer Tools If You Have Primer Problems

By: Bruce

Bruce — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 08:02:20 +0000

I wore out a couple of Mr. Lees excellent little “Auto-Primes ” over the years.

ABSOLUTE “feel” of every primer in every pocket.

Also, with minor modifications, they worked fine with the process of seating BERDAN primers. (RWS 5608 and 5627) Tens of thousands of the little buggers.

Bought one of those fancy “bench-mounted” jobs for “large” primer seating, but once I figured out the “foibles” all my 9mm loading on my dinky Lee 1000, uses the “factory” primer feed with a little bit of “stabilization” of the tray and chute, and the use of a “ball-chain” that operates the powder thrower, to rub on the primer rig and “jiggle” it, for reliable feed.

By: Boyd Allen

Boyd Allen — Tue, 03 Jan 2017 00:58:07 +0000

If the handle of your hand priming tool touches the body of the tool while seating primers, you have a problem. You need to be able to feel the primer touch the bottom of the pocket and then add a little more compression beyond that, as a preload. That way none of your energy of your firing pin is wasted completing your primers seating, and moving the anvil into contact with the priming pellet. Every part is in contact before your pull the trigger. Every time that I read a post that mentions seating by depth, I cringe. IMO and that of the vast majority of short range Benchrest shooters, primers should be seated by feel, not to a specific depth.