New style Lee hand primer SUCKS!

[eclipse57]

I have owned and used one of the old style round tray Lee hand primers for years. I have picked up spare parts here and there from gargae sales, friends that had broken the ram portion or some such piece. With all the parts, I kept mine running a long time. Well I finally ran out of repair parts and had to replace the old one.

Having had good luck with Lee dies and my old hand press, I bought one of the new ones with the square tray. It appeared to be ok, but in actual use, it has proven to be an utter piece of junk. AMF lee piece of junk.

I am now in search of something new. Any recommendations? I prefer a hand press. All of my reloading is on a couple of single stage presses.

 

[918v]

Hornady.

 

[Dan Newberry]

I like the older unit better too... but I did finally get used to the new one, and it seems to "break in" (maybe)... or maybe I just got the hang of it... I don't know. But I primed 200 cases a couple nights ago and it went pretty smoothly.

 

[n517rv]

it has proven to be an utter piece of junk.

Funny... I was just thinking the same thing earlier this week when using it to prime 300 BLK brass. I'm looking for an alternative as well.

 

[Brasscow]

21st century shooting. I wish i had kept my round trays from my old generation lee auto primes when they broke, but it is nice even with the shitty square trays with lee's safety channel.

 

[Twoboxer]

IMO, the lee tray flipped primers best, the Hornady has the best ergonomics for my hand (and it stands by itself), but the RCBS Universal Primer is the best all -around I've used.

Never jams a primer at the ram, never flips a primer when you slide them back into the tray, needs no shell holders so they stay with the dies where I can find them, and the priming action also slides a safety bar in between the primer being set and the rest of the tray.

 

[nashlaw]

IMO, the lee tray flipped primers best, the Hornady has the best ergonomics for my hand (and it stands by itself), but the RCBS Universal Primer is the best all -around I've used.

Never jams a primer at the ram, never flips a primer when you slide them back into the tray, needs no shell holders so they stay with the dies where I can find them, and the priming action also slides a safety bar in between the primer being set and the rest of the tray.

Have used the Lee, but not the Hornady. Now use the RCBS and am very happy.

 

[KillShot]

Glad to read this about the hand primers. I'm going to start rolling my own and decided to go with the RCBS before seeing this topic.

 

[Powermac]

21 st century SS priming tool, is certainly the best there is, fit, finish, and quality is top notch, and you have a incredible feel of the primer bottoming out, also adjustable so you can set it to your preference.

If you want a primer tray seater, get the 21 st century priming tool square using the Lee trays.

 

[JBNj]

Rcbs aps hand primer tool is what I use. No shell holder needed. Loads in strips. None of that old tech priming flipper tray crap. But you'll have to buy the strip loader if you plan on using other primers as cci i think is the only ones that come loaded in strips. Save the plastic strips for future use. Strips connect with each other for continuous loading. Never have to touch primers. Dont have to worry about a primer going off,igniting the other ones. Good feel seating primers. Pretty good product.

 

[Fatelvis]

21 st century SS priming tool, is certainly the best there is, fit, finish, and quality is top notch, and you have a incredible feel of the primer bottoming out, also adjustable so you can set it to your preference.

If you want a primer tray seater, get the 21 st century priming tool square using the Lee trays.

I checked out this priming tool....very nice.
I wish the "magazine fed" version had the adjustable depth feature that the single loaded version has.

 

[Afalex1]

I bought a new style Lee and I hate it. The action is really stiff compared to the old one and it will flip primers right before it loads one.

A different make/model is on the list of things to buy.

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[Doka]

+1 on the 21st century tool..love it