New RCBS equipment..........

by Gunner , St Louis, Sunday, January 14, 2024, 17:21 (112 days ago)

Gotten to the point that I hate priming on the Rock Chucker, never felt normal, awkward at times, always kept my eye on hand primers. The old Sinclair International was pretty cool, the new Frankford Arsenal is highly reviewed but here is the problem, as I get older the more my hands hurt from decades of blue collar work. So I bought a RCBS Automatic Priming tool.....

https://www.rcbs.com/priming-and-powder-charging/bench-mounted/automatic-priming-tool/1...

Set it up this weekend and ran some 300 Blackout cases on it, what an idiot am I!!! Should have bought one of these years ago!!!!! What a great little tool for $130, easy and fast, you can even adjust the primer seating depth. I highly recommend this tool for everyone's reloading bench.

Second piece of equipment is the RCBS Summit single stage press....

Summit

Set it up yesterday as well, what a chunky press with it's 2" ram, pretty sure you could drop it off a building and the concrete would say ouch. Operation it smooth, the stroke fairly short, I opted for the short accessory handle but it puts your knuckle close to the base on the bottom of the stroke but offers way less arm movement when using the handle. Setting up a die is straight forward but finger room is narrow when screwing in the die due to the linkage position on the head, the open top design of the Rock Checker shines here. The only other issues is the head weight with its down stroke....IF you have a finger near the shell holder and slip off the handle, a BIG heavy, square guillotine is dropping on the finger, YES I can speak to this from experience

Overall both tools are welcomed additions to the reloading bench.

Gunner

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