Trying out different bench priming tools.

[marchboom]

I'll save you time and money. Seat the primer until the cup bottoms out in the primer pocket. That's it, you're done! This is the way the primer manufacturers prefer.

 

[ELR LVR]

I hear you but when I had to prime a bunch of Lapua SRP brass using Remington 71/2 SM primers, I had had enough of hand primers. But they are great if they work for you.

If I'm doing over 100 pieces, such as 223
Yeah
I will go ahead and use the Dillon

 

[jpjulian]

Used the RCBS press priming system years ago, meh. Upgraded to Sinclair hand priming tool in early 90s and loved it, but, it's one at a time that doesn't work well for volume. Added a Bench Prime a few years ago and pleased with it, good seating feel, load the tube, rock & roll. Only complaint is the cheesy plastic fingers when loading primer tubes, Dillon are much better.

Lose the plastic finger thingies and get a Double Alpha primer filler and load 100 primers into your tubes in about 10 seconds or so.

 

[jpjulian]

My RCBS bench tool will not seat all the primers below flush as required, even after getting a replacement part under warranty. One of the reasons I got the PCPS press mounted tool. Poor man's Primal Rights tool for a fraction of the cost.

 

[jghoghunter]

My RCBS bench tool will not seat all the primers below flush as required, even after getting a replacement part under warranty. One of the reasons I got the PCPS press mounted tool. Poor man's Primal Rights tool for a fraction of the cost.

Been using mine for the better part of 10 years and always below flush. Last 2 years I've been checking the depth with an Accuracy One tool. Always below flush. I also have the Derrico PCPS and very happy with it.

 

[Conaso]

Don't get me wrong, I like the PCPS, especially with arthritis and torn rotator cuffs.

Anyone using only the PCPS and getting consistent, desired seating depths? I’ve tried Lapua, Nosler, and Starline brass; unless I sort cases by rim thickness, it’s all over the park. Now I use the PCPS to quickly seat primers to flush or slightly below. Then, due to varied rim thicknesses, I use the RCBS Universal Hand Priming Tool individually ‘push’ the primer to the desired seating depth +- .0005”.

What is your procedure?

 

[6.5 forever]

Been using mine for the better part of 10 years and always below flush. Last 2 years I've been checking the depth with an Accuracy One tool. Always below flush. I also have the Derrico PCPS and very happy with it.

Same

 

[Conaso]

Don't get me wrong, I like the PCPS, especially with arthritis and torn rotator cuffs.

Anyone using only the PCPS and getting consistent, desired seating depths? I’ve tried Lapua, Nosler, and Starline brass; unless I sort cases by rim thickness, it’s all over the park. Now I use the PCPS to quickly seat primers to flush or slightly below. Then, due to varied rim thicknesses, I use the RCBS Universal Hand Priming Tool individually ‘push’ the primer to the desired seating depth +- .0005”.

What is your procedure?

For $60, I bought the new Lyman Accu-Prime Manual Bench Priming Tool instead of the RCBS tool.

 

[kiwijohn]

I wish the Forster unit would come out with a 100 count tray. I love mine and i have tried to come up with a plan to use 100 count trays but Im too dumb!!

 

[209jones]

I would think that Forster would be fairly easy to modify for depth adjustability if a person wanted to, although I do prefer filling the round tubes, even just picking them up one at a time with the tube. Sure Forster could probably come up with a tray setup fairly easily for that tool, maybe shorten and bend the existing tubes a bit, add a lid to a modified tray like the filler tray. Could maybe take a 3d printer and modify something like an RCBS or Lee tray with an angled insert/adaptor for the Forster tube, even maybe right onto the tool. The Forster filler tray is a bit of an art that you have to learn thru feel & practice, don't use it often enough and lose "the touch" for it.
I had an issue right off the bat adjusting the RCBS bench unit, wasn't even seating to flush, take it apart, adjust it 2-3-4 times, finally got it. The thing that bugged me after that, was the idea of trying to keep that adj without doing something like loctiting the cup screw in there, which would be a pain when wanting to swap primer sizes, or buy another shaft and loctite them both and continue on. I didn't much like how much space it took either, or how the mechanism was flopping along in the normal operation.
That's just stuff you don't really see til you use the various tools, just as in with many other tools a person acquires, don't know til you use it.

 

[big5ifty]

Great exercise, well tested.

All that's missing from your testing is a Lee Reloader press fitted with a ram prime.

 

[Killick]

I bought this some years ago and haven't regretted it. Fully adjustable, bench mounted, with depth micrometer and primer tubes...one caveat though...they don't make them anymore.

Excellent Holland Upgrade for RCBS Bench Priming System « Daily Bulletin

Gunsmith Darrell Holland sells a Priming Tool Adapter that upgrades the RCBS Auto Bench Priming Tool with key features -- including primer seating depth control.

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[NF1E]

I enjoy the Lyman Accu-Prime and don't mind single loading the primers at all.
Did a couple hundred SR and LR yesterday with the Primal Rights CPS and it is a joy to use and fast. Don't think I would use one if I was only doing a couple dozen at a time. The Lyman Accu-Prime is still my choice , at this point. Whatta Hobby!

 

[JEFFPPC]

I don't making seating primers into what it isn't. Switched a while back to the bench RCBS, works flawlessly, never any issues. I load it in the single shot mode.

 

[GetReal]

I hear you on the discomfort part.

But I wanna feel the primer seating resistance , so I put the hand primer between both palms and squeeze together at chest height.

 

[NF1E]

I hear you on the discomfort part.

But I wanna feel the primer seating resistance , so I put the hand primer between both palms and squeeze together at chest height.

I think you can " feel " the primer seating with any of the priming tools whether hand or bench. Whatta Hobby!

 

[Mike in Oregon]

Let me know when you want to unload the RCBS auto prime.

 

[209jones]

I bought this some years ago and haven't regretted it. Fully adjustable, bench mounted, with depth micrometer and primer tubes...one caveat though...they don't make them anymore.

Excellent Holland Upgrade for RCBS Bench Priming System « Daily Bulletin

Gunsmith Darrell Holland sells a Priming Tool Adapter that upgrades the RCBS Auto Bench Priming Tool with key features -- including primer seating depth control.

bulletin.accurateshooter.com

Can still search it and the page comes up, no price though. Was 170.00 earlier in the year, which is a bit much depending on what you pay for the RCBS unit, and that was why I bought the Derraco instead.

 

[GetReal]

I think you can " feel " the primer seating with any of the priming tools whether hand or bench. Whatta Hobby!

Ive tried bench mounted. Its a different "feel" .... for *ME.* I dont like them. Bench mounted has much greater leverage. It's what makes them easier, but also makes them feel different.... I lose part of the "feel" of it. YMMV.

I'll use a handheld primer seater... until I cant. Im not there... yet.

 

[jelenko]

For me, it's a real tradeoff. I would much prefer a bench mounted one for the ease of priming. But, with over 6000 rounds a year to prime, I use a Frankford hand primer so I can sit while priming.