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Who makes the best hand priming tool?
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<blockquote data-quote="Mikecr" data-source="post: 823036" data-attributes="member: 1521"><p>Good points Randy.</p><p>I wanted to throw in some contrast to 'best' in best hand priming tool.</p><p></p><p>There are reloaders thinking that best is fast, or more leverage, or more sensistive, or adjustable/fixed in depth -from casehead. But how many have really thought this through, or done some testing with it? I think few have because we are so lucky that primers seem tolerant. Afterall, primers seated incorrectly can still fire, and if so, does it matter?</p><p></p><p>From what I've seem, it can matter. I just don't know how for sure. </p><p>Wave goodbye to a previous tune, change the firing pin spring, and notice every primer still fires.</p><p>Maybe the pellet can throw sparks differently with subtle changes. It's been found that the flashole size affects results. Also that striking in force and speed(separately) affects results. Both regardless of seating, but we know we can affect results with seating to a point of misfire atleast.</p><p>We don't seem to hold any issue with flash hole or pocket uniforming as prudent. Your best gun builders pay attention to an action's timing, dragging at the trigger bar/sear, and cocking piece settings, because otherwise a customer is bound to conclude that a gun just won't shoot so well.</p><p>He might be right.</p><p></p><p>Have you ever wondered why one shot in a group left 30fps different than others?</p><p>When you're burning out to get 3/8moa to 1/4moa with a hunting cartridge, you're wondering about this. You go for perfect seating, consistent headspace, consistent neck tension, lower loaded runout, powder to the kernel, better scope, better rest, timed shooting, etc. Then it gets to pure ridiculous with bullet bearing and weight, case weighing, constant annealing, SS media, etc.</p><p>What about primers? Primer weighing!! Really?</p><p>I don't even understand why I'm using Feds over CCIs with a load. Or why swapping them changes everything. But I know it does.</p><p></p><p>I've logged that 5thou crush works better than 2thou with Feds in my Cooper 223. I've logged 2thou crush with feds in my Browning 6br, and for some reason 4thou with CCIs in a BAT 6.5wssm.</p><p>Maybe I need to revisit the Browning, and pay more attention to primers..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mikecr, post: 823036, member: 1521"] Good points Randy. I wanted to throw in some contrast to 'best' in best hand priming tool. There are reloaders thinking that best is fast, or more leverage, or more sensistive, or adjustable/fixed in depth -from casehead. But how many have really thought this through, or done some testing with it? I think few have because we are so lucky that primers seem tolerant. Afterall, primers seated incorrectly can still fire, and if so, does it matter? From what I've seem, it can matter. I just don't know how for sure. Wave goodbye to a previous tune, change the firing pin spring, and notice every primer still fires. Maybe the pellet can throw sparks differently with subtle changes. It's been found that the flashole size affects results. Also that striking in force and speed(separately) affects results. Both regardless of seating, but we know we can affect results with seating to a point of misfire atleast. We don't seem to hold any issue with flash hole or pocket uniforming as prudent. Your best gun builders pay attention to an action's timing, dragging at the trigger bar/sear, and cocking piece settings, because otherwise a customer is bound to conclude that a gun just won't shoot so well. He might be right. Have you ever wondered why one shot in a group left 30fps different than others? When you're burning out to get 3/8moa to 1/4moa with a hunting cartridge, you're wondering about this. You go for perfect seating, consistent headspace, consistent neck tension, lower loaded runout, powder to the kernel, better scope, better rest, timed shooting, etc. Then it gets to pure ridiculous with bullet bearing and weight, case weighing, constant annealing, SS media, etc. What about primers? Primer weighing!! Really? I don't even understand why I'm using Feds over CCIs with a load. Or why swapping them changes everything. But I know it does. I've logged that 5thou crush works better than 2thou with Feds in my Cooper 223. I've logged 2thou crush with feds in my Browning 6br, and for some reason 4thou with CCIs in a BAT 6.5wssm. Maybe I need to revisit the Browning, and pay more attention to primers.. [/QUOTE]
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