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What Priming Tool to Buy

Benchrest Braxton said:
even though i highly respect bryan, i feel his assessment of the cps was erroneous. some sort of user error, his consistency numbers were WAY out of line with what that unit is capable of.

Only way his numbers were that bad was if he had the worst lot of brass for rim thickness in history. did you watch my video where i achieved sub +/- 1/2 thou consistency with my cps and ugly pcps?
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Did you watch Bryan's video about how he did his test? IMO he was very thorough. As I have written many times, for me this is all somewhat irrelevant since I seat by feel, and I am pretty sure that most short range shooters do as well. Beyond that, the guys that I tend to copy, at the distances they shoot, shoot the smallest groups in all of shooting.
 
BoydAllen said:
Did you watch Bryan's video about how he did his test? IMO he was very thorough. As I have written many times, for me this is all somewhat irrelevant since I seat by feel, and I am pretty sure that most short range shooters do as well. Beyond that, the guys that I tend to copy, at the distances they shoot, shoot the smallest groups in all of shooting.
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i didn't watch it in its entirety, but anyone who has lots of use on their primal rights cps can tell you his consistency numbers on the cps are very bad.

Again, so bad that they would be along the line of the worst lot of brass in history......

i'll watch the video again later to be sure i didn't misunderstand anything, maybe i'll make a reply to his video.
 
So……. I like nice things, I have 2 Sinclair’s and 2 21’st century a K&M and I think I still have one made by Hart. I seat more by feel than anything like Boyd does “He Taught me so to speak” I plan on buying one of these new press mounted systems because I like pretty toys. However you don’t need to spend $200,$300 or $600 to get good results priming. I been staying with my Mom for a few months as she is not doing well and I miss my loading room at my house so last week I brought a extra rcbs chargemaster and Sartorious 505, then Bought a Lnl ap and a Mec Marksmsn off here some other extras from home and I now have a working bench at moms. Today I wanted to load some 22 Hornet up for my grandson to go groundhog hunting, I didn’t want to change out the shell holder in my Sinclair so I ran over town and bought a Lee primer that also mounts on a press, didn’t want it on my Mec so bought a $39 Lee press, it’s there smallest aluminum press, I was amazed at how well it worked and although you couldn’t feel as well as the Sinclair it did still have good feel and in just a couple minutes had 50 cases primed!… I think the press, primer and shell holder was under $80
Wayne
 
I received my PCPS today. Like the photos shown above by nettle, it is an extremely well made tool. I still have a few weeks before I can get it set up on my Zero press. I believe it will provide me with very precise primer seating with minimal effort to my arthritic hands. Even though I haven't seated a single primer yet, I think it is a very good value.
 
jpjulian said:
I received my PCPS today. Like the photos shown above by nettle, it is an extremely well made tool. I still have a few weeks before I can get it set up on my Zero press. I believe it will provide me with very precise primer seating with minimal effort to my arthritic hands. Even though I haven't seated a single primer yet, I think it is a very good value.
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Like you I have the arthritis in both hands and both thumbs have been fused, I can still do small batches by hand but for larger batches I think this will be a good tool. Wish I had a zero press to put it on.
Wayne
 
The PCPS does have my interest. Does the PCPS lock down the shell holder, i.e., little or no vertical movement, similar to the Sinclair? I know it's a different methodology. Then it will boil down to the quality of the brass.
 
Conaso said:
The PCPS does have my interest. Does the PCPS lock down the shell holder, i.e., little or no vertical movement, similar to the Sinclair? I know it's a different methodology. Then it will boil down to the quality of the brass.
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The shell holder is locked down. But the brass is not locked down to the shell holder.
 
VA_XTC_Shooter said:
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I have had one for a very long time. It works very well. If you play around with the adjustment you can have great feel. As an aside for the priming by depth guys, if you were to combine it with one of the Forster lock rings that is marked in thousandths, you can have a set up that is adjustable for primer depth in thousandths. To do this you will want to put a piece of tape on the die threads, with a reference mark to use with the lock ring graduations, and set up the die so that the primer is fully seated with the press linkage is the stop. I have used mine to prime by feel, and with the proper adjustment I can feel when the primer touches the bottom of the pocket very well.
 
jghoghunter said:
Are you referring to the primers stacked up in the tube? I heard of this happening but I would like to know how many times it has truly happened. Not just the "friend of a friend twice removed" had it happen to him. Reason being and I'm only one person, out of many thousand of people who use a tube system of some type but I've been using a tube system in one way or the other since late 80's when I bought my first dillion press and never had a problem.
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