Primer strips?

[Guy Miner]

Anyone use the CCI APS primer strips and associated priming tool?

Looks like a convenient, easy to use system that might speed up priming a bit.

Dunno. Input?

 

[SJB358]

Guy, I think 35 Whelen (Earle) uses them. From all I have spoke with him, he likes them alot. I know I have looked into it, just to get my grubby fingers off the primers and to speed things up a little. Plus, I use CCI's pretty much exclusively and you can get them in strips for a touch more than unstripped primers..

 

[muleman]

Guy,
My cousin used them for years and loved them. He used them in his RCBS progressive and it seemed to work well for him. I watched him many times reloading the strips and then using them to crank out 1000's of rounds - he had very few problems with feeding. I believe RCBS has a handprimer and bench mounted tool that uses the strips as well.

Scott

 

[FOTIS]

I thought about it Guy but all my loads are built around federal and winchester.

 

[Elkman]

Never used them Guy, but as you already know, I am about 25 years behind in reloading technology.

 

[Oldtrader3]

I am stilll using a single motion hand primer seater. I can now dump about 16-17 primers, out of 20, right side up into the tray from the box. It does not take much to turn those others over in the tray. Maybe in another 20 years, I will convert to auto primer feed? I use (5) different primers and have two manual seaters, one each set up for large or small.

 

[DrMike]

I have to admit that I've never seen the necessity of these. In part, it is because I don't want to incur the extra cost. Also, I do so much in volume that it would add extra time. Finally, while the advertising indicates the strips can be refilled, it does entail handling the primers, which offers no advantage over the present situation. The hand priming tools I use flip the primers fairly quickly with a couple of shakes.

 

[Guest]

I'm in the same boat as Doc and Charlie. I use the RCBS hand priming tool (the original one that uses press-style shellholders) and the tray flips primers pretty easily. I've gotten to where I can load it with just about the right number of primers every time, using an index card and the box in which the primers are packaged. Let's say I'm doing load workup and need to prime 4 series. For most of my load workup, that's 9rds per series, so 36 total rounds. Well, just crank out four rows of primers, slip the index card over the last four in one row, and dump into the tray. Viola! No fingers touching primers. Then flip what needs flipping with a few shakes of the tray, and I'm ready to close and prime. Pretty easy.

I use a variety of primers, so the strips would entail me loading them (both another step in the process and a chance to get oils from my fingers all over them) so they've never caught my attention.

 

[DrMike]

I'm in the same boat as Doc and Charlie. I use the RCBS hand priming tool (the original one that uses press-style shellholders) and the tray flips primers pretty easily. I've gotten to where I can load it with just about the right number of primers every time, using an index card and the box in which the primers are packaged. Let's say I'm doing load workup and need to prime 4 series. For most of my load workup, that's 9rds per series, so 36 total rounds. Well, just crank out four rows of primers, slip the index card over the last four in one row, and dump into the tray. Viola! No fingers touching primers. Then flip what needs flipping with a few shakes of the tray, and I'm ready to close and prime. Pretty easy.

I use a variety of primers, so the strips would entail me loading them (both another step in the process and a chance to get oils from my fingers all over them) so they've never caught my attention.

I use the identical procedure, dubyam. The sole difference is that I still have a six-inch plastic rule provided courtesy of the USNR. (Man, I've had that for a while. :shock: )