Whats the best single stage press...

[Murray Brook]

Lee Classic Cast does the same. They exit through the ram into a tube. Very clean set-up. It isn't the primers on the floor that bothered me it was the crap that is left on the ram when they exit through the side. Eventually wears the ran and press.

 

[6ShotsOr5?]

For this to work, you have to turn your ram around. It should solve your problem. https://www.ebay.com/itm/RCBS-Reloa...hash=item3b42a6ac6f:m:mwl_3gyZR93rvI6Fk-0UzxQ

I have the Redding T7 and it drops one out of about 15 on my grey speckled epoxy floor where they’re hard to see, but moving the ram slower helps. I’m curious about turning that ram around, or I wish they sold a ram without the primer tool, I don’t use that feature on the press.

 

[338 dude]

I’ve had a Redding ultra mag for years it sizes my 338 Lapua brass with no problem

 

[Shooter13]

Re: RockChucker

Guys- we are really talking about using a sweep broom for 20 seconds and a dust pan for 5 seconds. I saw T-shooter's link. Are there better presses on the market? It looks like it. Is it worth the added expense? Your choice.

I was irked by the spent primers on the floor. My wife handed me the broom and dust pan. No big deal. I have the 3D catcher. It catches 95% of what I decap. I still have to use the broom. Such is life.

^^^^^THIS^^^^^ and I don't have the problem y'all seem to have, I just deprimed 100 cases today and never dropped any but again I don't go at it like the house is on fire!

 

[Rich Lee]

I use a forester coaxel single stage press and a mighty armory depriming die and all my spent primers end up in the cup below the press. Best single stage press there is in my book.You cant pull bullets with a camlock bullet puller with it so I have a lee single stage press for that job.Like somebody said you cant have to many presses.

 

[Bill K]

Kinda surprised more presses don’t do what Redding does on the Ultra Mag Press. Hollow ram so primers fall through it and into a 2 ft long plastic hose.

That is how the 3-D made product catches the primers on the Rock Chucker.

 

[steve123]

Prazipress, no if, and, or but's.

 

[bozo699]

All this fuss over primers.... I do “Decap” with my T7 some and never drop a primer if I don’t get lazy and forgetful and empty the tube but who likes all that carbon wearing on the ram of there $3 or $4 hundred dollar presses?.... I use a $39 Lee hand press and “Deprime” why I watch my favorite John Wayne movie. After 25 or 30
“removed primers” I empty the ram full of
“Spent primers” and do anther round, easy peezy!....
Wayne

 

[Twicepop]

Mine drops all them down the middle of the ram and out the tube.

Mine doesn't have that feature. In addition to the slot in the front of the ram for the primer arm, it has a similar slot in the back of the ram that the spent primers are "supposed" to travel down on their way to the spent primer cup. Mine is not the BB2, it's just a "Boss", similar to a RCBS Rock Chucker but with an angled frame, and a poorly designed spent primer recovery system.

 

[Mr.Knowit all]

Forester.

 

[Albany Mountain]

I use Inlinefabrication's primer catcher. Solved all of my problems. Broke the first one and no remedy from manufacturer but both a improved model and it is working better. I use a RCBS Rockchucker.

 

[Longtrain]

I had a Redding press long ago and wasn’t very happy with it, unexplainable runout, sloppy ram throw, jiggled in too many places.
I bought a Cast Iron Lee press, which is solid, works well, my cases size perfectly and my runout on my Dasher cases using Whidden dies is generally always under .001. I would buy one again if I had a need, this one being chugging along for at least 20 years.

 

[quest450]

Prazipress, no if, and, or but's.

my co-ax became a depraming press since I got the Prazipress, German overengineering marvel

 

[MislMan]

I place a large bath towel on the floor under the press (Lee Classic Cast) while depriming. Most spent primers go down the tube in the center of the ram. Those that escape land on the towel. Simply pick up towel when finished depriming and dump primers and crap into trash can. Need old towels, just buy the wife new towels (they always want some) and transfer the old towels to loading room. Mark old towels with a large ‘X’ in sharpie. Towels can be used under press or for cleaning and a multitude of other gun related uses.

 

[oley55]

I have the Redding T7 and it drops one out of about 15 on my grey speckled epoxy floor where they’re hard to see, but moving the ram slower helps. I’m curious about turning that ram around, or I wish they sold a ram without the primer tool, I don’t use that feature on the press.

I thought long and hard about dressing up my floor a few years ago. Fortunately, I thought about it long enough to anticipate myself crawling around with flashlight and having the side of my face pressed to the floor trying to find that errant spring or part. Just saying...., and I apologize for jumping off topic.

 

[steve123]

my co-ax became a depraming press since I got the Prazipress, German overengineering marvel




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Amen brother!!!

These things are metal art as much as they are a work horse, I almost feel guilty using mine, lol!

Ha, I have a set of Warner's myself, well truthfully that's half the reason I bought this, the other half was the primer mess my other presses were making.

It's one of the few purchases that I am totally happy with.

A friend gave me his old Lee which when I deprime I use, and it makes a mess, but I use it for pistol brass because I SS wet tumble to get the pockets nice and clean.

 

[danny]

Surprised nobody has mentioned the Lee Classic Cast (iron) which has a through the ram spent primer catcher setup. Mine has been great and Randy Robinett uses them to make his wonderful bullets, so that is good enough for me.

My Classic Cast only catches most primers. The rest it throws on the floor.

Danny

 

[avidflyer]

I use a forester coaxel single stage press and a mighty armory depriming die and all my spent primers end up in the cup below the press. Best single stage press there is in my book.You cant pull bullets with a camlock bullet puller with it so I have a lee single stage press for that job.Like somebody said you cant have to many presses.

best decapper made

 

[Cecil S.]

Forester here. But I use 2 presses. RCBS Jr2 with a primer catcher I bought from form member The German and it works perfect.

 

[Richard Coody]

My benchrest brass i deprime with a harvey deprimer at the range. Wipe.the cases down with ballistol while others are.posting targets or while waiting for.my barrel to cool. Then it is ready to load up again.

For the rest.i have a little partner press and lee universal depriming.die bolted.to a.picnic table in the back yard and deprime.there.

No mess no fuss.