[cp1969]

I think I'm going to quit using a press to seat primers and use a hand tool. My Dillon 550 never has seated primers worth a hoot. It takes too much pressure and the primers sometime have a 'dented' appearance. My RCBS Jr. isn't much better. My little Lee hand primer seats primers with far less difficulty than either and doesn't have primers stacked on top of each other.

It'll be a pain on the Dillon but I'm not an ammo factory. I can spend the extra time.

 

[cp1969]

Your experience pretty much mirrors mine.

The Dillon always has been the worst about denting primers.

I'm mainly concerned about working around a tube full of primers. There's quite a bit of explosive power there.

 

[cp1969]

The best single stage press I ever used (it wasn't mine) was a Forrster/Bonanza Co-Ax. You had to feed it primers one at a time because it didn't have a primer tube and the thing was about as smooth as using a good hand priming tool.

 

[cp1969]

Why? Are you going to hit them with a hammer or something? Seriously, primers in a tube aren't an issue

Chain Detonation in Primer Tube — When Bad Things Happen « Daily Bulletin

What can happen when the bottom-most primer in a primer feed tube goes off? A big bang, that's what. Some or all of the primers in the vertical feeding tube can go off in a chain detonation. That's exactly what happened to Dustin Ellermann, Top Shot Season 3 Champion. Scary experience, but...

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[cp1969]

Again, how is that bottom primer going to go off? it won't decide to do it in its own. I have used primer tubes for almost 40 years and have never had any issue. Loose primers in a jar can be detonated - there are web stories about that.

And I'm not telling you to quit using primer tubes. All I said was that I'm going to quit using them.