I have a RCBS hand primer and the one on my rock chucker. Asked the same question here months back, and alot said 21st century. I went that route and there is no comparison. You get a great feel for when the primer bottoms out, or you can add crush. ( I never have.) I was surprised at the little amount of force it took to see the primer. Feels really well made. I don't think you could go wrong with it.
What Priming Tool to Buy
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damn......trying to set a good example for the younger generation and I catch heat. I currently have a 17 month old daughter and plan to teach her (safe) reloading as early as possible.
Freak accidents happen, what would you want to be wearing when a stack of 100 primers inside a metal tube goes off?
Freak accidents happen, what would you want to be wearing when a stack of 100 primers inside a metal tube goes off?
You don't need to wear a ridiculous vest (gunsmithing apron) or nitrile gloves to seat to +\- 0.0005" thou depth. Just an ugly PCPS
I would rather look ridiculous for 5 minutes vs the rest of my life when I am sporting a glass eye.
As far as the gloves, I like to keep my equipment in rust free condition. I have oily skin and overtime will make bare steel components rust out.
So you are saying in order to win in benchrest I need to reload in my underwear, use a hand priming tool from the 80's and have a FUDD attitude?
thanks for the tip sir
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jghoghunter
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I'm curious as to what the short piece of rope is for!?
quest450
Mark Niezabitowski
there's your problem right here, I NEVER load more than 15 primers into the tube, it's a bit of PITA but better be safe than sorry !!
15 primers, 50 primers, 100 primers, there is still always a risk.
I can honestly count on one hand how many times I wore safety gear when priming. It's the fact that when giving education in public we need to make sure we are on our best behavior, not only for the easily influenced younger generation, but for the anti gun nuts as well
only 10 primers and you still need to use a full face safety shield and ear pro.
clearly this is written from a liability/lawyers perspective. I sure as crap ain't going to be refilling my primer tube every 10 rounds during a large (100 round) session.
people are taking this way too seriously, the only reason I wore all of that in the video is to set a good example for public/ potential younger viewers.
thanks for sharing, any guesses on why it happened?
rijndael
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The primer punch didn't fully remove the primer. It moved to the priming stage and the new one jammed in and ignited. There was some residue on the primer slide, from prior primer issues with crimped pockets, and let things go back in to the primer magazine. The outer (black) priming magazine contained things.
This is my setup. Uglys PCPS.
nice set up! how are you liking it so far?
My apologies , I didn’t realize it was you wearing the vest. Until I watched the video…
Better safe than sorry.
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I ordered a PCPS Saturday and it should be delivered Friday. You video comparing the 2 was very helpful. Thanks for your time and trouble.
I did make kinda a critical mistake that I will need to make a
part 3 to resolve.
After getting a few comments from some folks saying they don't need to pull anywhere near as hard as I was on the primal rights unit to get good consistency, I decided to revisit this by trying a few cases out by just going to the bottom of the stroke with normal force.
By not putting significant amount of force this time, I was coming up about 2 thou short of my old set point. I dialed it 2 clicks deeper and voila, back to my old seating depth setting without the extra effort.
My thought process as to why I believe I was unsuccessful with this before is because the unit was brand new and still had some tolerance stacking that needed to be broken in (primal rights states this)
Overall I still give the win to the ugly/derraco unit due to the price point when it comes to precision.
Carl is working on something to speed up the process with the ugly/derraco unit. Whenever that gets released I will make a part 3 speed test.
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