Do you touch your primers?

[earthquake]

Broke my bench mount Lee, hate my Lee hand primer (arthritis) but I have a co-ax and finished my last session using it to prime, and actually kind of liked it.


However, I thought you were never supposed to touch primers with bare hands! Having to single load them into the little cup thing one at a time, aside from being slow, requires a lot of fondling. Is this ok?

 

[918v]

Why are we not supposed to touch primers?

 

[stello1001]

gloves???

 

[Supersubes]

I’ve never heard that about primers. Fondle away!

 

[Doom]

The idea is oil on your hands will affect the primer compound. I’ve never seen this happen. I don’t touch them as a rule but have at times.

 

[pilotjoe]

I always wear nitrile gloves when I reload. No chance of contaminating anything, keeps my hands clean, and keeps fingerprints off the brass.

 

[47guy]

yes...ive also spilled steel reserve and jack and coke on primers....dried them off and they still worked.

 

[47guy]

I always wear nitrile gloves when I reload. No chance of contaminating anything, keeps my hands clean, and keeps fingerprints off the brass.

definitely dont want finger prints on your brass.

 

[lead ƒarmer]

For shits and grins I soaked some old primers that I didn't want anymore in a jar of oil for a few days and then loaded them in a blank piece of brass just to see. Guess what, still went boom. Well actually more of a "pop"

 

[brado16]

I always wear nitrile gloves when I reload. No chance of contaminating anything, keeps my hands clean, and keeps fingerprints off the brass.

Hope you wear a hair net too, dont want to get any hair in that case

 

[earthquake]

Why are we not supposed to touch primers?

 

[918v]

The idea is oil on your hands will affect the primer compound. I’ve never seen this happen. I don’t touch them as a rule but have at times.

I touch every primer.

A long time ago I tried to deactivate primer cases with wd40. I then loaded the deactivated cases into my revolver and pulled the trigger... I still remember the noise and the ringing in my ears.

 

[Steel head]

I’ve never heard that about primers. Fondle away!

On it!

 

[CaroleBaskin]

definitely dont want finger prints on your brass.

I second this! Fingerprints lead to unnecessary investigations. Ask me how I know

 

[Rocketmandb]

I touch every primer.

That. Just. Sounds. Wrong...

 

[L. Perry]

police your brass when you are done and they won't find your prints!

 

[Gatorshark]

I'm a recovering primer toucher.

 

[47guy]

I second this! Fingerprints lead to unnecessary investigations. Ask me how I know

did you really feed your husband to your tigers?

 

[LawnMM]

I touch my wife's as often as possible.

 

[James Abram]

If you like the feel of the CoAx primer system check out Forster’s bench primer. Same shell holder as the press and really good feel, and you can load about 60 primers in to it at a time.

 

[Badfinger]

Show us on this cartridge just where he touched you.........

 

[Amanda4461]

The Co-ax has the best feeling priming system. If the bench-mounted Forster primer is as good as the press, I’ll have to have one. Thanks for the info.

 

[ThreeBravo]

Never had an issue with touching primers and them not working. (not to say it wont happen eventually)

 

[texastonk]

I was taught growing up not to touch them. But after years of loading Ive never had an issue. I try not to but it doesn't matter.

 

[earthquake]

I second this! Fingerprints lead to unnecessary investigations. Ask me how I know

 

[lightman]

I prime with a hand priming tool without a primer feeder and I touch every primer that I use. I try to make sure that my fingers are dry. But I have never seen any sign that my touching a primer has hurt anything. As far as brass goes, I wet tumble using a wash and wax that leaves a protective coating on the case. Finger prints won't tarnish the coating. I have not had the need (yet) to worry about finger prints left on the wax coating. If I do ....................

 

[Switchbarrel]

Broke my bench mount Lee, hate my Lee hand primer (arthritis)

If that is the older round tray type, in good shape, you could sell it quite easily here or AccurateShooter classifieds.
Lots of guys love the older version. (Def. not the square tray one).

-Rick

 

[M1Army]

I have been touching primers for over 40 years!

 

[6.5Creedguy]

I always touch it.