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.

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.

Short version- BUY THIS ONE! I’ve owned about every hand priming tool on the market. The fact is they have better seating control. This Franklin Armory hand priming tool gives you perfect depth precision that is adjustable. I pulled it out of the box and primed 500 rifle brass in about 45mins. For non magnum rounds I prefer CCI and Federal primers depending on round. They tend to be softer primers that can be easily deformed even with hand primers.. but this one the tolerances are so tight.. even when the pocket is a bit small. It can still perfectly seat the primer simply by spinning the case 180 degrees if it’s pressing hard and still perfectly presses without deformation. I love this damn thing! 500 soft primers had around 30 tight case pockets.. 0 crushed or wasted primers all to perfect depth. I’m totally sold, if all of Franklin Armory’s tools are this high of quality at such a low price..I’ll start replacing all my worn equipment with their stuff.

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.

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.