Primer tube fillers

FWIW, I'm one of the VibraPrime crowd. Had one years ago, worked well enough but eventually it broke, and IIRC they stopped making them for a little while. When I got back into loading on a 550, I ran with the old school flip tray and hunt-n-peck method for a while, but eventually got a new VibraPrime. Tempted to buy another just as a spare, just in case.

Personally, I'm at the point where I'd really *like* to have an RF100, and I may end up getting one 'just because' - what can I say, I like the hands-off automation aspect of it. That said... it takes me maybe five minutes to load up 4-5 tubes using the VibraPrime, and I very, very rarely ever load more than that in a single setting, so I do have a hard time justifying the jump from the $40 tool to the $400+ option.

I'm really surprised, though, that between modern 3D printing, small shop CNC manufacturing and micro-electronics that we haven't seen a few more entries in this category. I mean, it's pretty much a) use a Dillon flip tray, b) VibraPrime ($48-ish), c) Dillon RF100 ($360, plus $53 for the conversion to large or small primers respectively), or d) something like the Camdex, which I think runs a couple grand?. That's a pretty dang steep gradient to the field.
 
The handheld billet pal filler is gold standard, and they occasionally come up for sale on the Enos site. I have a rf100 too, and it works great with cci, but not federal for me. The new double alpha one was a disaster for me, but most seem to like theirs.
 
The new Double alpha primafill works like a dream and fills a Dillon small primer tube in about 20 sec. The only down side I can see is I bought 10 extra primer tubes so I could load 1000 rounds without having to stop and that made it costly. I have used it to load many brands of primers and found some brands load faster than others raw brass primers seem to load a little slower. Overall I'm very happy with everything I've bought from DAA.
 
I’ve had great luck with the Vibra-Prime, just plain works for me.

That said, I’ve never tried to transfer primers tube-to-tube from the Vibra-Prime tube to the Dillon tubes even once, seems like an unnecessary headache: I just pull the pin and drop them right in to the press, then fill it up again. Means I only stop for a few minutes every 200rds... and gives me a chance to see if I need to add any cases to the case feeder or bullets to Mr. Bullet Feeder.
I honestly think doing it this way (just dropping the primers straight into the press then filling it up again) is just as fast or faster than taking the time to pre-fill a bunch of tubes before getting rolling.

I’ve got a pack of extra Dillon primer tubes I’ve never opened and maybe never will...
 
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