If a person really needed one, what would they search for? If you are going to recommend something, it would be good to let those that don't know, what it is you are recommending.
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Post #42 is a vintage priming press from The Reloading Clinic in Minnesota. Hasn't been made in, I suspect decades, it's extremely cool if you like Rube Goldbergish contraptions. The suggestion to look for one was intended to be tongue in check. Kind of like going on a unicorn hunt.
My personal recommendation was in post #39. RCBS bench prime. Just used mine on Monday to load some 220 Swifts and 22-250, worked as well as ever
And I do indeed have the Reloading Clinic machine, so my unicorn hunting days are over.
For now anyway.
This mirrors my experience as well. In addition, the RCBS tool I bought would not index the primer properly without fidgeting with the primer tube on every stroke. Junk. I had an old, original, Lee hand priming tool at the time and was able to find three more complete toools in the Swapping & Selling section. Those tools, with the round trays, are the best hand priming tools ever made, IMO. And I don't have another bench-mounted tool cluttering my workspace. I have enough of those Lee tools, and spare parts, to last me until I leave this world. No need for anything else.
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My RCBS bench priming tool is over 50 yrs old and never had an issue. Just fill the tubes and go to it. I would not be without it.
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My vote definitely goes to the RCBS. If one REALLY wants the best, Darrel Holland -- https://www.hollandguns.com/m7/H-PPS...lete-unit.html -- has a RCBS unit with awesome mods to make it, imho, the very best! I have one, and cannot say enough good about it. Oh -- I also have three plain-Jane RCBS primer tools, and have each of these with the (available from Darrel separately) SPRING which raises the handle up, making the tool an oh so much better (imho) tool.
For Me?? Lee...Auto prime II or original hand primers...more than 2.... Don't cost enough to be any good...But, always work well for Me.
Only Lee tool I swear by is my ancient round-tray Autoprime. There is a Hornady version which seems better made, and I have one. Lee with the small primer punch, the Hornady with large.
Loading primers into a tube strikes me as masochistic.
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I still use the single feed Lee Primer Tool with screw-in shell holders. Compact, simple, and efficient. I keep one set up for each of my frequently loaded cartridges along with a box full of spares. I don't expect to find one I like better!
Speaking of primers, they seem to be coming down a little. Brownells had LPPs and SPPs by Winchester advertised for $98/1000 yesterday. Of course the vultures hit them hard and they're gone now.
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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 |
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