Lee Safety Prime - Priming .223 Brass

You can prime brass immediately after resizing and depriming, which could be a real time saver, but for rifle brass you'd have case lube on sized brass that you wouldn't want to tumble to clean because the media would clog the flash hole. Even if you resize and deprime, then tumble the cases to clean them, then trim and chamfer them, and then run them through the Classic Cast press again to prime them with the Lee Safety Prime, it's still a fast way to prime brass. You also get a good feel for the priming operation, so you can feel loose primer pockets, as well as primer pockets that still have a crimp that needs to be removed. It's a good way to prime brass, and I'm liking it. I may stop trying to maintain the fussy priming system on the Lee LoadMaster and prime all of my rifle brass prior to the progressive loading on the LoadMaster.

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Howto & Style

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• Lee
• Safety
• Prime
• .223
• Classic
• Cast
• Press

[zandercruise]

hey L4E, can you add the deprimer/resizer and deprime on the upstroke, load a new primer while its up there and then prime it on the down? Basically can you deprime and prime w/just 1 stroke?

Thanks!

[Liberty4Ever]

The Safety Prime is designed to resize and deprime on the upstroke and then reprime on the down stroke. That'd work well for straight walled pistol brass, but I lube the bottle necked rifle brass like the .223 shown in this video, and I want to tumble clean the brass after resizing before I prime the cases.

For pistol ammo, I use the Lee LoadMaster press. It's a full progressive press, so all the different operations occur at the same time in the different stations.

[RedDelPaPa]

I hate you reloaders that go 100 miles per hour and don't even inspect your work. What are you proving? That you can half ass 500 rounds together in the time it takes me to do 100 quality reloads?

[Liberty4Ever]

1) I wasn't going fast at all. I was proceeding slowly and deliberately.

2) I wasn't reloading complete rounds of ammo. All I was doing was priming cases. This video is only a demonstration of the operation of the Lee Safety Prime.

3) Dude, what's your problem? :^)

[PublicFilthSpeeks]

@PublicFilthSpeeks woops, I misspelled "good" in my .002 cent spent post... i hate it when that happens. Now in going to bend some bullets.

[PublicFilthSpeeks]

@RedDelPaPa Dont be a assuming azzhat. How do you know what his quality control process is? there i said it. i feel better now.... my .002 cent have been spent wisely...  godd vid by the way Liberty4Ever.... A perfect camera angle for the prime demo... thanks for posting.

[throatkutter]

@RedDelPaPa So he needs to slow down, huh? Maybe get a quick wank between shells?? I think you have a bigger problem than worrying about newbies getting hurt. Your biggest problem is that you don't know how to shut the hole on your face!! Constructive criticism is one thing, being a dick is another.

[RedDelPaPa]

@Liberty4Ever Sorry for coming across a little too harsh in my last. My problem is, there are a lot of newbies learning bad habits from watching videos such as yours. Slow down. Priming is actually a rather dangerous step.

[RedDelPaPa]

@throatkutter RedDelPaPa loads his shells at a level of quality and consistency you could only dream of. I take my time, and carefully examine every single case that comes out of my press. The reason I made the comments I made is because there are a lot of newbies getting into reloading and when they see videos like this, they think it's ok to sacrifice safety and quality for speed. Which is the perfect recipe for someone getting hurt.

[outcry27]

My old man is a huge fan of Lee reloading equipment; he just recently gave me his old Classic Cast to get me started in the reloading hobby, and I'm starting to see why! Lee products perform just as well as the "premium" presses out there, at a fraction of the cost. Gotta love it.

[outcry27]

@RedDelPaPa - I like how you immediately assume he's not going to go back and inspect the casings once he's done repriming them, or before he puts his powder charge in, or before he seats a bullet, or after he's done with the cartridge. That's a hell of a lot of assuming.

Get off his case; it's a demonstration of a priming system, not reloading technique.

[weehooker]

Nice demo. Leave it to Lee to come up with a better priming system for cheap $. I love the fact that the act of priming keeps the primers "shook" into teh shute and that the primer being seated is no where near the rest of them should it blow on seating it.

[TehBr0]

Thanks for this video, I just bought a Classic Cast myself. Interesting to see you still kept the lever on the right hand side, I thought it would have to go on the left hand side to avoid hitting the safety prime attachment. Looks like you adjusted the angle of the lever to get around that, nice idea!