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<blockquote data-quote="Tesoro" data-source="post: 1434584" data-attributes="member: 44340"><p>I think that its a bit of an old wives tale about rubber gloving your primers and contamination paranoia etc. I have loaded cases of primers by plucking them with my forefingers and sticking into my hand primers and never missed a lick. I have only had one dud out of many thousands of large rifle recently and who knows why. Maybe that was the 1:10,000 from not using match br. Not saying I am going to prime with drippin oily hands but I usually have residual imperial wax on em and just wipe my hands off on a rag and get to work.</p><p></p><p>For hunting loads I will wash my hands and dry them just to be on the safe side tho. I see pics and videos of people wearing rubber gloves and just cringe thinking how uncomfortable that would be. And not to mention unnecessary unless, I guess, if you are loading for some national championship.</p><p></p><p>I only use a hand primer - newest fav is the 21C - as its the fastest way for me to prime and truly feel the insertion pressure. The depth is already preset for crush. Last night I primed 100 casings and out of that I felt 3 soft ones out of the batch. I deprimed them and measured the pocket and they were 1-2 tho over normal. Those casings were all 4x fired. Thats another reason I like to hand prime is to be able to feel the primer insert and give me a heads up on any loose pockets so I can toss them in my annealing test case bin.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tesoro, post: 1434584, member: 44340"] I think that its a bit of an old wives tale about rubber gloving your primers and contamination paranoia etc. I have loaded cases of primers by plucking them with my forefingers and sticking into my hand primers and never missed a lick. I have only had one dud out of many thousands of large rifle recently and who knows why. Maybe that was the 1:10,000 from not using match br. Not saying I am going to prime with drippin oily hands but I usually have residual imperial wax on em and just wipe my hands off on a rag and get to work. For hunting loads I will wash my hands and dry them just to be on the safe side tho. I see pics and videos of people wearing rubber gloves and just cringe thinking how uncomfortable that would be. And not to mention unnecessary unless, I guess, if you are loading for some national championship. I only use a hand primer - newest fav is the 21C - as its the fastest way for me to prime and truly feel the insertion pressure. The depth is already preset for crush. Last night I primed 100 casings and out of that I felt 3 soft ones out of the batch. I deprimed them and measured the pocket and they were 1-2 tho over normal. Those casings were all 4x fired. Thats another reason I like to hand prime is to be able to feel the primer insert and give me a heads up on any loose pockets so I can toss them in my annealing test case bin. [/QUOTE]
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