Received a Sinclair Priming Tool for Christmas and finally had a chance to use it last night. Really the Caddilac of handheld priming tools! As stated in previous forum posts, if you're not loading a large volume of cartridges (primers are fed by hand one at a time) where speed is needed you will love this tool.

I concur. I bought extra heads to hold different shell holders. That makes it easier to change to a different cartridge.

Bob257

I have looked at the Sinclair tool for some time. Question if you have to load the primers one at a time into the priming tool, isn't there increased risk for primer contamination? Or am I just being paranoid?

i have been using this tool for a long time.what i do is pick up the primers with a pair of twizzers.to keep from getting moister on them.this is a great tool.

I always wash my hands before handling primers to ensure the primers are not contaminated by oil or dirt.

Before using a hand priming tool, I used the adapter included with my Rock Chucker press. I've loaded 1000s of rounds this way over the years (pistol and rifle) and haven't had a problem with primer contamination.

Does the Sinclair use Lee shellholders?

Thanks in advance.

Knowing Siclair, I'm sure it's a fine piece of equipment. However, priming is not that complex of an operation, and any upside the Sinclair tool may offer is far outweighed, in my book, by the convenience and speed of any of the tray-fed tools.

Contamination doesn't really concern me, but picking up each individual primer is simply making things harder and more time-consuming than they need to be.

Maybe the Sinclair tool minimizes primer runout, if there is such a thing.

My $0.02,
RSY

You manually feed primers one at a time, and it costs $100.00 to boot?

I'm sure it's nice and everything, especially if someone bought it for you for Christmas, but doesn't that seem just a little overvalued?