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You'll have arms like Popeye! :lol:

Seriously though they are very good primers and well worth using if you can and have a tool that seats them without making you a physical wreck. I'm lucky that my Ultramag will seat them on the upstroke easily but it has a long handle. My RCBS Ammomaster progressive press seats them OK but my Hornady LnL AP won't, RCBS long handle Hornady press short handle.

Just thought i'd post a follow up to my thread.

Well they're still hard as ever and you've gotta really smack them in,but curiously last week i had two faulty primers one after the other. Was showing a proby how to use my K98 and warned him its got a bit of a bark to it so he prepared himself for the recoil and then got 'click' instead. Told him to keep it chambered for 30 seconds then slowly slid the bolt backwards to find a well dented primer.He chambered the next round and got a 'click' again so repeated procedure.

All the others i made went off fine!

Still not sure if i'll be buying PPU primers again though.They're too darm hard and it feels so un-natural to use that much force to seat the things.

Could it be the PPU brass pocket being a wee bit tight as well. Reason I say that is because I bought a couple of hundred .303 PPU brass and with the RCBS hand primer I was having to use two hands to seat the Federal Match primers, I mean they were rally tight going in. Now I'm using the press to seat the primers in the .303 brass.

Blu

Blu wrote:Could it be the PPU brass pocket being a wee bit tight as well. Reason I say that is because I bought a couple of hundred .303 PPU brass and with the RCBS hand primer I was having to use two hands to seat the Federal Match primers, I mean they were rally tight going in. Now I'm using the press to seat the primers in the .303 brass.

Blu

At the moment im using FNM brass. These primers are really tight in both PPU and FNM so i know its not the brass. When im seating them sometimes it takes 2 attempts to get it flush otherwise it wobbles like a Weeble. :lol:

The only time I've had misfires with primers is when I've seated them too deeply and the anvil has crushed the priming compound. This has never happened with PPU primers.

It is well worth investing in a Ram Prime unit, various manufacturers do them I prefer the Lyman unit. It just screws into where your dies would go. Then you can use the downstroke of your press lever to seat with. Once they are set up with a dedicated shell holder they will never seat too deep and seating primers with hard cups is easy when you have the full leverage of the press at your disposal.

I had a bit of a problem with PPU primers being tight and managed to break my hand primer on one! The remaining primers got seated on the press. I made a primer pocket "go-no go" gauge for both small and large rifle primers and use it all the time after cleaning out the pocket. If I find a suspect pocket with the gauge I set it to one side for investigation/fettling later. Dave, there might be some mileage in producing some of these in "The Shed"

Meaty, they are very easily made, I will add it to the list of 'Sunday development work'

dromia wrote:If you can get a bit of pipe to fit over the handle that should do it.

“Give me a place to stand and with a lever I will move the whole world.”

Seriously though with enough foostle they seat OK, I've never had one go off.

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum etc etc