Frankford Arsenal Platinum Series Hand Deprimer Tool for Standard Primer Removal for Reloading – 909283

LOVE this thing. There is an art to using it, but once dialed in it is awesome for "zoned out decapping while watching TV"! It decaps 9mm, .38/.357 and .40/10mm with ease. I used it on crappy, muddy range brass and after a good wash, I started decapping. The "little plastic finger" collet adapter, of the appropriate size (there are 3, sm, med. , and lg.) is inserted and away you go. You will be tempted to run the collet tighter than it needs to be, leave a HAIR of slop to put the casing in it AND roll it around to be sure the decapping pin is IN the flash hole and squeeze. Going through a 1000 rounds of grungy brass was quite a workout, so don't overdo it! LoL NOTE: These little plastic collet fingers are what makes it work, BUT they are "little PLASTIC collet finger thingies" and they will wear out eventually. I have done 3000 rds but the cleaner the range brass is, the longer they should last. I haven't worn mine out yet, but I have ordered two more sets.... cuz Murphy!!! The only bad thing is that the medium collet will be the one MOST people will use (and wear out), and they only come from the manufacturer in sets of .... sm., med., and lg,!!! Soooo you will have a lot of smalls and larges laying around. That said, the thing is awesome. Is it as fast as sitting in your garage, shop, man cave at a press running the cases through a decapping station... NO, but you are on autopilot watching TV while you do it. Like watching TV and shelling peas or folding laundry... whatever. Take your time, set it up and get a "process" going, and decap brass. I decap my brass so I can wet tumble it with cleaner and stainless steel pins. If you don't remove the spent primers you will "tumble weld" (with the steel pins) the primers in the cases and ruin them!!! I just finished another 1000 this afternoon.... wonderful item, well made... does the job! Does a great job!!!

Received product and immediately tried it out on 223 and 45 acp and it worked flawlessly. I had many casings with crimped primers and it had no problem removing them.The primer cup is a nice feature that keeps primers from flying everywhere and makes for easy disposal.It seems to be well constructed for the purpose it serves

I love this tool because it allows me to grab a bunch of cases and de-prime anywhere. I usually can relax and watch TV, de-priming while unwinding after a day at work. With this tool I'm not tied to a reloading area, but rather can de-prime anywhere, which is the whole point of the tool. I've never encountered a case I couldn't de-prime or that wouldn't fit in the chamber. The spent primer catch tube will usually hold most of the spent primers but it can still be a messy job.

I have decapped thousands of 223 and 308 casings with this. No one else makes a hand primer to my knowledge. When the pin broke, and they all do, I found the specific replacement pins on Amazon. The only complaints I have is first with the tube on the end that catches the primers. it only wedges in place and while you are de-capping you have to regularly shove it back in place or it will fall out and the primers will go everywhere. Trust me on this one. Needs to be a screw in type or some other way of securing it in place. Second is the handles. Ergonomic yes, comfy no, especially when you are de-capping 223 . Those things are hard to get out. The handles are hard plastic. I had to wrap them in thick tape to soften it up a bit. It will do a number on your fingers. I even popped a nerve in my index finger before i wrapped them. That was a while back and still not healed so keep that in mind. It is a good product though.

I really like this product. It works well for 223/556 lake city brass. Pushes past the crimp easy enough. I like using it over my press remover. It let's me keep the dies clean. I can remove the primer then clean cases.

Works as expected, only wish it would also accept 12 gauge she’ll also

I'm glad I bought this tool. It is easy to use and very study. I've been using it a lot to deprive cartridge cases. I can deprime quickly and effortlessly.

I bought a 1000 box of once fired 223/556. Needing to swag the primer pockets I depriimmed them. The job went fairly quickly and worked well except for the occasional case with a smaller flash hole. Those 10-15% would stick on the part of the depriming rod that goes through the flash hole. Stuck so much that I would have to pull the case loose with a pair of pliers. No fun and it slowed the process.I'm not suggesting you do this but I took the depriming rod and chucked it up in the drill press...turned on the drill press and sanded the pin down a few thousands of an inch. Slowly, I finally got it small enough that it would not get stuck in the small flash hole cases. Another possible solution might have been to trash the cases with the tight flash holes or run them through the press and then swag them.At any rate, the deprimmer worked great. It was reasonably fast. I did, after a while, have to put a leather glove on my right hand to cushion the handle a little.