Thread: Federal primers in Lee Safety Primer Feed

All LEE priming equipment and presses has the same safety warning in relation to Federal primers. On their progressive presses like the Loadmaster, you can actually buy a factory "blast shield" in case a primer accidentally explodes on the press.

Basically it's because Federal primers apparently have softer cups, as compared to CCI, Remington etc.

I won't advise you either way, but based on my own personal experience, I only used Federal primers for over 30 years on almost all brands of presses and hand priming equipment ( including Lee) without incident.

These days, I use a LEE Auto Bench Primer for almost all my priming with Federal primers, and never had a problem.