kelbro
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My arthritic hands have been pushing me to do something different as far as priming cases. Doing 160-240 cases before a match required a couple of Advil.
I considered a couple of the bench mounted solutions but I remembered that I had a brand new Lee C press in a box somewhere. Attaching that press to my RockDock mount, I could have a portable bench mount by utilizing either a CPS or a PCPS in that little press. You don't need much leverage to seat primers.
My hands don't hurt $800 worth and it was a little tough to convince myself to spend $200 on the Derraaco system. Then I saw their Lite solution for around $80 and figured that I would give it a shot.
Fast forward to this afternoon... these are great little primer seaters. Solid. Easy to load. Flawless function. Easy to tell that the primer is fully seated. Easy to get into a rhythm and.... most important, no sore hands. Mission accomplished.
I am now considering getting a second one so I can have one set up for small primers and one set up for large primers. I load those about 50/50. I would still be under $200 and the Lee has the breech lock design so they would be easy to swap back and forth on the same press.
All in all, I feel good about the purchase. I'm confident that It will hold up in the long run. It seems to be engineered and built well.
I considered a couple of the bench mounted solutions but I remembered that I had a brand new Lee C press in a box somewhere. Attaching that press to my RockDock mount, I could have a portable bench mount by utilizing either a CPS or a PCPS in that little press. You don't need much leverage to seat primers.
My hands don't hurt $800 worth and it was a little tough to convince myself to spend $200 on the Derraaco system. Then I saw their Lite solution for around $80 and figured that I would give it a shot.
Fast forward to this afternoon... these are great little primer seaters. Solid. Easy to load. Flawless function. Easy to tell that the primer is fully seated. Easy to get into a rhythm and.... most important, no sore hands. Mission accomplished.
I am now considering getting a second one so I can have one set up for small primers and one set up for large primers. I load those about 50/50. I would still be under $200 and the Lee has the breech lock design so they would be easy to swap back and forth on the same press.
All in all, I feel good about the purchase. I'm confident that It will hold up in the long run. It seems to be engineered and built well.
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