Home Forums Reloading Big Game Rifles RCBS APS System

Anyone use it?

I have used it for a long time. I have a bench mounted that I use when I'm gonna be priming lots of cases. I use the hand held most of the time. And I've got the tool that you use to load any primers into the priming strips. Handy, quick, easy to use. Never have to touch the primers.

I've got a pair of handheld for large and small primers as well as a couple of strip loaders and lots of strips. It's helping me get through the current hard times that I bought a fair number of CCI primers preloaded in strips when the company (was it still Blount?) broke the promise that APS strip loaded primers would be no extra charge. I firmly believe the APS system is far and away the best priming system for progressive presses - which is not the same thing as saying the RCBS progressive is the best progressive (though I think the RCBS is the best choice for the loader who uses a single machine to load a variety of primer sizes in relatively small runs - compared to the Dillon user with a variety of machines which has a lot going for it as a system just as I think the Hornady is better than a 550 and good for changing cartridges but maybe not the very best for massive production of .45ACP)

Good for loading out of a cigar box in motel rooms though with no loose primers and no unidentified primers. APS or a similar system would be nice for an industry wide system including the variety of progrssives - I think APS is superior to dumping primers on a flipper and/or filling tubes.I'd have to add that I can see absolutely no reason for anyone at all to adopt the APS system as primary starting now and going forward.

My RCBS Pro 2000 press came with it. I really like it. It works.