Fastest way to prime cases?

[condor bravo]

Perhaps it would have been more realistic for the subject of the thread to have been the most appropriate method for primer seating, depending on loading circumstances, rather than speed of primer seating. If it takes one second to seat a primer, does anyone really care about cutting that time in half. Obviously using single stage loading versus progressive is a different story for overall speed of loading and is hardly influenced by primer speed.

 

[gwpercle]

I like the Lee Hand priming tool because I can sit in my easy chair, feet propped up and prime all I want and I can take it to the office and prime cases. The hand primer gives a good feel when it bottoms out and a whole box of primers can be dumped onto loading tray without touching one. If a few are flipped over , tapping and/or a chop stick will flip them.
Cons to a bench mounted tool. It's mounted on the bench in my unheated un air- conditioned loading room, I can't sit in my easy chair, I can't take it to work and I have to stand at the bench.
Gary

 

[wild willy]

For just priming cases the bench mount RCBS APS is hard to beat for speed.If your primers came in the strips.If you have to load the strips then most of the time advantage is lost.I guess RCBS holds the patents or rights to it I wish they would have let other companies use it.We would probably have some great priming tools It makes the boxes a little bigger but it is a really nice way to handle primers

 

[libiglou]

Curious if you tried the UNIVERSAL hand primer?

I dont remember. I bought it in the early 90's to try and speed up the priming process. I tried using it a couple of times and went back to the lee unit.It took me longer to set it up then it did to prime. I think I threw it out in one of my cleaning rampages/purges.