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Any thoughts on what hand held priming tool might be easiest to squeeze?

All I can say is: the 21st Century is better than the K&M is better than the RCBS. That's all the data that I have, and that's subjective. I started priming with one of those Lee presses that they sent you out free if you bought a set of dies. Not the worst thing that ever was......
 
gunsandgunsmithing said:
Only thing I can say is that I was there when a friend had primers go off in the tray of a Lee. Lucky it wasn't worse than it was and they might have fixed it since then. I suppose it could happen with any of them that hold a tray of primers but the safety gate, for lack of a better word, left a lot to be desired on his. It's easy to second guess things after something like that and hard to forget.

I've always been happy with my old rcbs hand primer but it takes some effort with newer brass and a bunch to do.
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That brings up a good point.

The effort required is related to which primers you use.

In SRP I've found Rem 7 1/2 to be the easiest to seat. Federal and CCI are tighter/tougher. S&B are really tough. Unis Ginex are almost impossible - i.e., really tough.
 
The RCBS with the universal holder has for my hands any way the easiest squeeze force short travel than any I have tried, The RCBS bench mounted is sitting on the shelf just waiting until I can not squeeze any longer, Some days the arthritis in my neck shuts down one or both arms and hands today its my right upper arm, Takes both hands to seat , I do regularly lube the pivot knuckle that alone makes a notable difference
 
gunsandgunsmithing said:
Only thing I can say is that I was there when a friend had primers go off in the tray of a Lee. Lucky it wasn't worse than it was and they might have fixed it since then. I suppose it could happen with any of them that hold a tray of primers but the safety gate, for lack of a better word, left a lot to be desired on his. It's easy to second guess things after something like that and hard to forget.

I've always been happy with my old rcbs hand primer but it takes some effort with newer brass and a bunch to do.
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Sort of related. I had a 209 primer go off on the downstroke of my MEC 9000 410 press. The hull and powder tube directed the flash upwards. Definitely an attention getter. a piece of shot had gotten under the primer. I work a 9000 pretty vigorously and when the hull pushed the primer down onto the piece of shot it went off. I was wearing sturdy prescription glasses. You won’t catch me loading without glasses.
 
Turpentine said:
Sort of related. I had a 209 primer go off on the downstroke of my MEC 9000 410 press. The hull and powder tube directed the flash upwards. Definitely an attention getter. a piece of shot had gotten under the primer. I work a 9000 pretty vigorously and when the hull pushed the primer down onto the piece of shot it went off. I was wearing sturdy prescription glasses. You won’t catch me loading without glasses.
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Glad you had on eye protection. We tend to get pretty comfortable loading ammo. It can happen in the blink of a eye.
 
It's a tossup for me. I have old Lee's, new Lee handheld, I refuse to buy the bench version because of the new handheld driving me nuts, their safety system leaves a lot to be desired. RCBS is OK, I have a universal and the shellholder version. FA is a heavy unit, works OK, but, it is heavy and may bother people with hand issues on a longer session..

Using a Forster bench unit at present, it's taking a little getting used to with loading the tube and handling it, but, it seems easy enough to operate. If you want to adjust depth, a bit of tape on the end of the plunger works OK. I expect for someone with hand issues, it or the RCBS certainly seems to be the way to go.
Have an RCBS bench mount to try yet, not sure I like the amount of moving parts on it, but, we'll see.
 
When my old Lee died on me, I purchased their new product. It was an exercise in frustration - not feeding without jamming every 5 to 10 cycles. My RCBS was ok, using standard shellholders is a plus. But changing the configuration was a pain in the patootie.
I went to the Frankford and would not think about any other - that it uses the Lee shellholder is a plus.
 
This is really a timely post, I was just speaking to a couple of friends the other day about this subject. I’ve been using an old Lee hand primer that just works great, never missed a beat for me. However, I’m getting old and it’s getting hard to use. I was looking at the RCBS bench mount, but was concerned about not having any “feel” when priming. Do you have an “feel” with this unit?
 
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