So you are saying you used to use the press safery (automatic) prime, and now you switched to the new ergo hand tool? Simce you have to take the shells off the press after decapping in order to tumble them, so hand priming in bulk after that makes perfect sense I think. What are your thoughts on this if you don't mind?
Some people tumble with the spent primers still in the cases, and for them, it makes more sense to deprime/prime in one step. But everything I've read saysto deprime before cleaning brass, so that is what I do, and it makes something like the Safety Prime seem almost useless. I guess decapping before cleaning makes the media last a bit longer, and more importantly, helps to clean the primer pocket some. So it seems like those who are a fan of priming on the up stroke after decapping should might disagree with that.
And again, I admit that I like to hand prime as a separate stage so I can have prepped cases ready to go, so I can focus more attention on the powder and seating stages when I get around to it. Right now for example, I'm waiting on some new tools, like a headspace gauge and the Uniflow, before I drop powder and sear mu .223 cartridges, but I have 500 cases already deprimed/sized, cleaned, and primed.
My mistake, I meant to say I used the AutoPrime and just recently got the Ergo Prime.
The Classic Turret does a pretty good job priming - I don't have the Safety Prime, I set the primers in by hand one at a time when I prime on the press, otherwise I hand prime. I batch load on the Turret and when I want to go "fast" I have a progressive press.
I almost always tumble before decapping. It's too much work the other way.