[drdirk]

Question: Is it ok to touch a primer by hand? I have been loading my rifle ammo on a RCBS single stage press. I put a primer manually in the little spring loaded cup by hand. Then I just read a bunch of stuff that said you should NOT touch primers by hand but use a priming tool Did not give a reason. I can see that one would not want to touch a primer with very oily or dirty hands but if your hands are reasonably clean and dry, what is the big deal? Can anybody enlighten me?

For my Pistol priming I use a RCBS hand priming tool or prime in my Dillon with the auto primer. For the few rifle (hunting) rounds I load it seems too much work to set up the hand priming tool.

Thanks for any suggestions.