I currently use an old RCBS A press, It simply puts the spent primers into the ram and you take out 2 pins and dump the old primers in the trash can. It appears these presses are worth some money so I was thinking of selling it and buying something else. The lee classic cast looks like a great press, it has a hose that goes into the trash can great idea, only problem is my counter top is beveled and the mounting holes need to be about 3" back from the ram. RCBS rockchucker would work, but everyone complains about old primers all over the place, I don't like this because I have small kids. does anyone have any experience with hornady or lyman, how are they with old primers

I don't seem to have "primers all over"

But I do use a Universal Deprimer die as the first step.

That sure looks familiar. They just keep on going just the Eveready Bunny.

Cummins, look at the Forster Co-ax, fantastic spent primer retention in a little jar at the bottom of the press. If your dies will work in this press (some really long dies--maybe redding comp seaters or similar) won't work because they are too long--tall-- and interfere with the press handle, otherwise this press is sweet. No shellholders are needed, it has universal spring loaded jaws, and dies just pop in and out, retained by their lock ring in the press.

I have a rockchucker and the coax, and like them both, I really like the Hornady lock-n-load system with my RCBS, but the Coax already has that feature built in.

Good Luck--Don

That older RCBS set up would be fine for me, the new rockchucker supreme, has a black plastic thing that snaps on toward the back of the press, I have no idea how a primer would make it into the thing

My Rockchucker has the black plastic thingy and it is just about a mirror image of the silver one in a previous post--it catches about 98% of the spent primers I pop out.

The present Rockchucker has a plastic tray like the one in the photo above. The Lyman has a similar set up but deeper, and the Co-Ax as noted has a tube with a bottle attached that works best of all.

Cummins, yes the Lee CC is a nice press.

I don't even put the tube in my trash can, it comes w/ a rubber cap on it and I wait until I have a couple hundred in the tube before I stick it in the trash can and pull the cap off to dump them.

On the beveled note, I scrap piece of 3" or 4" angle iron or flat steel works like a charm. You can mount your press to the iron and then you have plenty to get back far enough on the bench to mount it. I stopped by a local welding shop and the guy just gave me a couple of cut-offs from angle iron, I use them for winches on feeders but, I've been wanting to mount my CC press on a piece. My bench doesn't have a bevel so I just mounted the CC direct but I can imagine the iron idea will give me more rigidity.

Good Luck

Reloader

The new RockChucker Supreme has this inverted "Y" looking thing that snaps around the base casting. It catches 99% of the primers...problem with it is you spill them all over the place trying to get the thing to 'unsnap' off the press...controlled mess. I like the press but that thing is a joke.

Heck guys, I thought that the primers were suspost to hit the floor so that your better half would have something to complain about. My old Herter C press does not have any kind of catcher on it so I put a trash can under it when I de-cap (and think of it, you know how these old brains work. I have trouble remembering to zip up, but can remember my first girlfriend's telephone number TR1-XXX)
I even had some friends that you called the operator and asked for 403 please.
To get back to the question, What was it again?

Judge Sharpe

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Originally posted by skb2706:
The new RockChucker Supreme has this inverted "Y" looking thing that snaps around the base casting. It catches 99% of the primers...problem with it is you spill them all over the place trying to get the thing to 'unsnap' off the press...controlled mess. I like the press but that thing is a joke.

can you explain how the primers go into the catcher, seeing as it slips on the back of the press, there is a grove cut into the front of the ram, but I have no idea how this could go into the catcher, or manybe the one I looked at how the ram installed backwards??

on edit: looking at some pictures that grove has to be in the front of the ram so that the priming arm works, so will someone explain how the primers make it into the catcher on the rockchucker supreme

cummins cowboy
There is an opening in the back of the ram that lines up with the upper part of the "Inverted Y" as mentioned earlier! The primers go into it then fall to the bottom part of the "Inverted Y"!

My brother has one of these presses and it's a pain to empty the spent primer catcher, so he just uses his little shop vac!

The groove in the front of the ram is to reprime the cases!

I unfortunately have no useful info here. I have a RCBS jr and it was givin to me and has no tray. I sweep the garage often though. I know I need a bigger press for the 300 win mag, but it works for now.

My RCBS Rockchucker always has a mess of primers under it. A few always get stuck between the outside of the tray and the press, then fall out when I remove the tray. A garbage can fits easily under the press, but I have a broom.

The tray on my Rockchucker catches 99% of the spent primers. What bothers me the most is all the grit that comes out with the old primer that collects around the ram and is picked up by the lub on the ram. Not a good thing. I wish there was a hole down the center so all the primers and grit could fall out the bottom.

chuck explained it better than I could. The thing does a great job of containing primers until you are ready to remove it from the press.

Why not shop vac em out of the tray? sure beats suckin em up off the floor.