I’m thinking of picking up one of these. Does anyone have one? How well does it work?
Thanks
I’m thinking of picking up one of these. Does anyone have one? How well does it work?
Thanks
I have a couple. I like them a lot. Have a couple RCBS bench mounted primers. The biggest difference is that Lee uses a primer tray and RCBS uses a tube. I much prefer a tray. The price is half or better for the Lee. There are a lot of threads on the Lee Bench Primer. The tray will need attention. May need a shake. Make sure handle fully retuns to the top. Once you figure out bext way to get the tray running you are golden.
My first "trial run" I had 3 OOPS! out of sixty cases primed. I reread the instructions, mounted the tool solidly, allowed (helped) the handle travel it's full swing, and now I get 99.9% good priming (last week out of 100 45 Colt cases primed I had one go in backwards, mainly because I wasn't watching). I do flick the primer tray occasionally to make sure the primers slide down properly, but I normally dump 100 primers in the tray, then prime 100 cases, non-stop...
My Anchor is holding fast!
I have one and I like it a lot. I do prefer the franklin arsenal hand priming tool though. On my Lee bench prime I removed the rubber bumper and do always make sure you operate the handle to the stop on the up stroke.
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |