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    These work great for filling primer tubes!

    https://www.amazon.com/Frankford-Ars.../dp/B00BQ6A3Y0

    Starting with a full primer tube, I loaded 100 40's in under 11 minutes on a 550, reloading at normal speed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by garandsrus View Post
    These work great for filling primer tubes!
    Many people have good luck w/ them. I gave up. Tried multiple units. Tried the “mods” to make them work better. Tried every technique that people have come up w/. One day I will get around to adapting an old Lee hand primer to fill the tubes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dragon813gt View Post
    Many people have good luck w/ them. I gave up. Tried multiple units. Tried the “mods” to make them work better. Tried every technique that people have come up w/. One day I will get around to adapting an old Lee hand primer to fill the tubes.
    +1 never was able to "learn" the techniques. Gave three of em away. Thankful they are useful to some people, disappointed I couldn't make them work for me.

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    Same here - I've played with automatic tube fillers (FA and Dillon) unfortunately I can't trust either of them and all the time "saved" is negated when I have to disassemble few rounds per 100 due to flipped primers.

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    Using an RCBS "PRIMER TRAY-2" it only takes about a minute and a half or so to load 100 primers? and that time(s) is included in the only time I ever paid any attention to rounds perhour, I got 470 rounds of 40S&W in 45 minuets.
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Abbreviations used in Reloading

BP Bronze Point IMR Improved Military Rifle PTD Pointed
BR Bench Rest M Magnum RN Round Nose
BT Boat Tail PL Power-Lokt SP Soft Point
C Compressed Charge PR Primer SPCL Soft Point "Core-Lokt"
HP Hollow Point PSPCL Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" C.O.L. Cartridge Overall Length
PSP Pointed Soft Point Spz Spitzer Point SBT Spitzer Boat Tail
LRN Lead Round Nose LWC Lead Wad Cutter LSWC Lead Semi Wad Cutter
GC Gas Check