Darrell Holland Upgrade for RCBS Bench Priming Tool
Gunsmith Darrell Holland sells a priming tool that upgrades the RCBS Auto Bench Priming Tool with key features — including primer seating depth control. If your hand starts to hurt after priming dozens of cases with a hand-held, squeeze-type priming tool, you may want to consider Holland’s invention, which he calls the “Perfect Primer Seater” (PPS).
Holland basically has modified the RCBS lever, adding a precise crush control and a means of measuring depth with a gauge. He claims this gives “an EXACT primer seating depth based on primer pocket depth and primer thickness”. With Holland’s PPS, primer seating depth is controlled with a rotating wheel that limits lever travel in precise gradations. You can buy the complete priming system for $215.00, or, if you already own the RCBS Auto Prime tool, you can purchase an adapter kit (with base, arm, adjuster, and gauge etc.) for $120.00. To order, visit Hollandguns.com. Click on “Reloading Equipment”, and look for the Perfect Primer Seater. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to add items to the shopping cart.
User Review by Tommy Todd
Sierra Bullets’ Chief Ballistician Tommy Todd acquired the Holland Perfect Primer Seater, and gave it a positive review. Todd writes: “This cartridge case priming system allows you to measure the primer pocket depth and adjust the seating tool to match the primer seating depth for a contact fit with a measured lot of primers to the cases you are working with. Mr. Darrell Holland has taken a standard RCBS automatic bench-mounted priming tool and modified it to a new level of precision. The modifications allow you to measure the primer pocket depth, primer height, and with the addition of an adjustable stop on the priming tool achieve precision primer seating, rather than how the primer ‘feels'[.]
If you are already utilizing the RCBS priming tool, Mr. Holland offers an adapter kit to upgrade your equipment. If you are looking for a new priming unit, I suggest giving this product a try. Increasing consistency when seating primers should result in smaller groups[.]”
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If you are shooting .50 BMG-rim-family cartridges, here is what you use – http://www.m2precision.com/products/primer_seater.html VERY expensive but IMO well worth it.
Doesn’t this type of priming device increase the risk of chain fires due to the increased leverage and people rushing?
Editor: This is NOT like the stacked primer tubes on some progressive presses. The primers drop, one at a time, from the tube into the shell-holder assembly. Then the primer tube swings forward so nothing is lined up with the primer that is pushed in the case. The point is that the stack of primers moves away BEFORE any pressure is applied by the handle to the to-be-seated primer.
I bought one of these. My hand doesn’t hurt anymore. For anyone with arthritis this is the way to go.
Where can I buy that
Upgrade for the RCBS bench primer tool