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Message: <blockquote data-quote="criticalbass" data-source="post: 2258697" data-attributes="member: 711">Me too, and a heavy leather glove to hold the brass.  Too easy to make a blood donation otherwise.  The major companies make brushes which will screw into a handle for hand cleaning of pockets.  These chuck nicely in a cordless drill.I strongly suspect the gun.  Factory ammo usually uses softer primers than primers intended for the reloader.If using Federal primers (I think they are about the softest) solves the problem, I recommend just doing that since this particular gun is probably never going to be in a self defense situation.The instructions for my Lee primer seating tool go to great lengths to stress not using Federal primers.  I still do, but only ten at a time and with personal protective equipment in a non domestic setting (back patio with wife and dogs in the house).  I presume the softness of the Federals has resulted in some of them going off when seated.  Primers are unlikely to set off their neighbors when lying in the same plane.  Stacked in a tube, as some systems do, is a whole different deal.  Think tiny frag grenade.</blockquote>