Frankford Arsenal Platinum Series Perfect Seat Hand Primer Seating Tool with Case for Reloading , Black

Hands down THE best hand priming tool on the market! I have owned 3 other kinds. They all had their failures and headaches. THIS Frankford Arsenal Platinum hand seating tool is slick, amazing, and just plain butter to use! Right out of the box I found the correct shell holder for my cases (superb they include all of those shell holders). Then I proceeded to prime 250 cases without a single glitch or problem. One former hand primer would push the top off the primer tray as I pulled the hand lever. Sometimes the primer didn’t align with the primer pocket and it would become a two-handed “Captains of Crush” grip strength exercise to finish seating the primer. Another former junk primer “tool” would occasionally fling primers across the room. None of those nightmares with this Frankford Arsenal tool! It works like a dream. I would have paid 2x the price for this kit. Everything in it works and is built solid. The dial and ability to adjust the primer seating depth is also amazing. Such ease and precision with this hand primer. This is the one to get! Throw any others you own in the garbage or give them to your worst enemy, LOL.

I like the heft of this tool. It is rugged and quality. It makes priming cases easy except it takes a good bit of hand strength. You don't have the leverage you do with a bench press. It was essy to change from small to large primer seater and to adjust the depth of seating. The storage case is perfect and has most of the shell holders you could ever want. Changing them is a snap. My only complaint is a small one. They only included one spring for the plunger. It would have been nice to have two just in case you lose one.

Apparently there was a problem with the first one of these tools that I received, and that I based my original review upon. I returned it, and am now using the second tool and it is a fantastic device! I have probably loaded well over a thousand primers with it and have had a failure rate of perhaps 3 overall. It is consistent, and enables me to seat to the exact depth I choose. It has shell holders for all calibers included. I highly recommend this tool! As long as they don’t send you the one I got originally!For what I paid for this primer tool, I expected it to work perfectly. What a letdown. From the very first primer I’ve had to fiddle with it to get it to work. The primer tray doesn’t work very well to orient the primers properly. The primers don’t feed into the tool properly. The primers don’t align in the tool properly. Once you overcome all that, the tool works well and seats the primers in the brass nicely.The “but” here is, is it worth what I paid to replace my old RCBS primer tool? So far the answer is a firm no. I’ll give it a couple more tries before I decide, but today I’m of a mind to return it.

I have the original Lee Priming tool which is 40 years old and the RCBS Priming tool purchased two years ago. This Frankford Arsenal tool is far and away the best priming tool I've ever used. It is more Robust and solid in construction. It comes with most needed case holders. It is extremely easy to change calibers and change over from small primers to large primers. It is very easy to load primers onto the tray which is definitely not the case with the other tools. The original Lee primer worked good but Lee advises against using Federal Primers stating they are dangerous. Federal primers are my favorites so that is another draw back. For the money, this is far and away the best priming tool and the price makes it an even better option.

I may have 1 with issues, but I'm still able to hand prime rounds a LOT faster than using my single stage press. Also more consistent depth once you figure it out.The small die works better than the large on in my set. The large one keeps getting stuck on something and then will 'pop' free and it worries me that it might set off the primer. I get about 10-15 done and then it catches. I've been trying to determine what the issue is, but even with the problem I can load 100 primers in about 10 min where just doing 50 at a time was taking me about 1/2 hour in the single press because of the extra steps needed. It was also not consistent seating depth where the Arsenal you can set the depth easily with the adjustment wheel. Not hard to figure out or use (other than the occasional sticking) and well worth the money. It comes with a set of shell holders that covers everything I (or I venture most everyone) needs. They are a little loose holding the shell and I'm not sure if that is what is catching, but the full stroke is consistent at seating the primer to the same depth each time.

Works like I ecpected it too. I have the seating depth set up to where it leaves a very slight indention from the seating ram, makes it easy to verify the seating depth is the same round to round.The linear primer on my Lyman Victory Press is fine if PRS isn't a concern, but the seating depth was too inconsistent for my purposes. The press itself is solid though.It is a little pricey for a hand primer, but it's built like a brick outhouse, buy one cry once. I don't think I have to worry about it breaking.I don't really plan on using any of the other shell holders other than the one cartridge I load for, but I might try some brass with small rifle primer pockets, now that I have a priming tool that can do both.

This is the best hand primer I have ever tried. I bought this because one I am sick to death of buying replacement after replacements for either the L** or the H*****y hand primers. Two, I have had enough bites taken out of the web of my thumb and forefinger or blisters caused by the L** and H*****y hand primers. Three, the seating depth is adjustable which the others don't have as a feature. That's extremely important for precision reloading. I found this hand primers to be a bit heavy but very comfortable to use. I got around to actually using it today and it seated five hundred large pistol primers without any error. Not even a lost primer. Making sure the primers are all right side up is a breeze. This tray actually does that! The tray also features a closeable gate I love this tray! Great. So far so good. Then I started priming some 223/5.56 and ... I was actually loading some Speer nickel plated 223. I hadn't reamed out the primer pocket. With a 5.56 military shell I would always do that but this is 223. My bad. Rather than primer the case, in a couple of cases the rim was torn off. I take that as an indication of the strength of this hand primer. I'll count that in the positive column and make sure I ream out this brand of 223. The only downside I can see is the price. As I mentioned I have gone through at least five each of the L** and H****y primers, so if this lasts, it is actually cheaper. Also it includes a variety of shell holders which you have to buy separately for the other two models. So depending on how many sizes you need that alone makes the price competitive. My conclusion? I would recommend this to anybody who is interested in reloading.

Very good productCame ahead of timeWorks perfect

Great product!

Perfektes Set zum setzen der Zündhütchen.

Ottimo prodotto uno dei pochi che consente di regolare la profondità di inserimento del primer ottimo

Muy buena calidad y perfecto para controlar la profundidad del pistón. Muy recomendable

Pour Rechargement armes d’épaule amorçage des douilles devant la télé très bon produit tout métal y compris les Shell holder super génial