Primer Brand Warning

We recommend only Winchester and CCI primers be used in the Auto Prime because Federal and Remington primers pose a potential danger to the operator. In testing, we found that the latter two brands of primers almost always chain detonated if the primer being seated was accidentally set off.  A primer going off near your hand can be compared to an M-80 firecracker. 

When a full tray of primers explode, it does so with enough force to cause injury to the operator and anyone else standing within a ten foot radius. 

The older Improved priming tool and our current production Ram-Prime only accept one primer at a time, so this hazard did not apply.  

We take no position as to the quality of primers and mention this only because of the increased danger of chain detonation with some brands only.