Ear and eye protection when hand priming...paranoid or smart

[Yardbird]

Safety glasses, yes mine have "readers" and help these 55+ year old eyes examine brass better but do not wear hearing protection.

[Univibe]

I wear my normal glasses.

I prime on my RCBS hand press.  But I'll tell you what I do:  normally I prime when coming down out of the #2 die, the expanding/flaring die.

But if I prime cases without a die in there, I have a steel pipe about 2.5 feet long that I had threads cut on one end.  It screws into the press.  If a primer goes off, the idea is that the pipe will convey the blast up over my head.    I've never had to test this.

[Kenk]

Neat idea, Thanks!