Mark_Mark
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yes! kitchen cooking spray
Advice from a professional. -Lube your pistol cases.
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To each his own I guess. Never been an issue for me and who knows how many thousands of rounds of accurate ammo. Carbide dies are effortless to size and I'm pretty darn old. I don't even clean my brass unless it hits the dirt. Rifle brass gets lube...
243winxb
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Most times- Fire, wipe with rag or roll in a towel, load. Pistol brass.
My 1970s RCBS 357 carbide die started galling last year. Lots of wear. Lube did stop the galling on the very old die.
Contacted RCBS, new die was sent. No using lube for me.
My 1970s RCBS 357 carbide die started galling last year. Lots of wear. Lube did stop the galling on the very old die.
Contacted RCBS, new die was sent. No using lube for me.
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Doubtful, and case lubes are cheap.
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Must be a West Coast thang.
I used to consider sizing hundreds of cases good exercise for my throwing shoulder, but now I'm old,
and I started lightly lubing every 10thish 9MM cases when sizing with a carbide sizer some time back.
So much easier.
and I started lightly lubing every 10thish 9MM cases when sizing with a carbide sizer some time back.
So much easier.
nettlle
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I have carbide pistol dies and tumble with walnut media and Nu-Finish. Then spray them with One Shot. Like a hot knife through butter.
Yamifrk
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I personally think the lanolin mix works great on my progressive press. Maybe no one told my press that I’m using it. 
It just makes everything smoother. I lube all my pistol cases that I load. 9,40,45acp 45 colt 38,357 mag and sig 44 special and mag 460 mag I run on my rcbs single but still use the same lanolin for that as well.
It just makes everything smoother. I lube all my pistol cases that I load. 9,40,45acp 45 colt 38,357 mag and sig 44 special and mag 460 mag I run on my rcbs single but still use the same lanolin for that as well.
nettlle
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Lanolin mix is good also. I use Dillon case lubricant (DLC) for rifle. Lube is cheap. No reason not to use it. Unless you are tighter than a banjo spring.
bullseye308
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I did the nu-finish and walnut thing for years and it made a big difference to me in both pistol and rifle. Now I do the wet tumble thing and lube with red iso heat and lanolin and it is even better. It’s cheap, I’m cheap, and my shoulders hurt all the time anyway so why make it worse.
Try it and see if it makes a difference for you. You can do it or not, and you don’t have to tell anyone else you converted.
Try it and see if it makes a difference for you. You can do it or not, and you don’t have to tell anyone else you converted.
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I do the same with 9mm, One Shot greatly reduces sizing effort.
Nah it's called preference and necessity. That's why we have choices just like the firearms we buy...
LiveLife
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Those that use lanolin based lube and magazine fed semi-auto guns, consider checking bullet setback as myth busting done for One Shot produced no bullet setback wet or dry lubing inside of case but lanolin lube (Bag Balm) produced bullet setback - https://www.thehighroad.org/index.p...affect-on-neck-tension-bullet-setback.834035/
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@longdayjake , when you start your apparel line, this has gotta be on a hoodie. I’d wear it on a sponsored competition shirt…
I‘ve read a few posts where they don’t lube and that’s ok, that’s what pistol carbide dies tout, but I’m 99% sure they don’t wet tumble without wash and wax. Last month I switched over to the 9mm toolhead, threw some brass in the feeder and started up. When the first case hit the AA expander, the handle came up and “bang”. That expander loves to hang on to the case mouth if the brass is really clean. I usually give a spritz of one shot but this was just a test/setup run and I had thought there’d be enough lube left over from before, apparently not.
Good thing you didn't say 100%
. But I also don't use a PTX to expand or an expanding die with a floating insert. Not saying anyone shouldn't use case lube with carbide dies if they so desire. I just prefer not to; and have found ways to make it unnecessary. I lube bottleneck rifle cases out of necessity but wash it off before loading.
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Advice from a professional. -Lube your pistol cases
I took advice from professionals a long time ago to buy carbide pistol dies and not lube. It has worked for me. Everyone who lubes agrees with you. Everyone who doesn't lube doesn't agree with you. Ford vs Chevy.I size separately, taking all those issues out of the equation when loading pistol cases on my progressive press.
That said, if one is doing all the operations together on a progressive press, it makes total sense to lube pistol cases, despite using a carbide sizer.
That said, if one is doing all the operations together on a progressive press, it makes total sense to lube pistol cases, despite using a carbide sizer.
AJC1
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Look at the nature of those that give the positive response. How are they loading. I don't expect 100% agreement in any direction ever, but I expect a large percentage of progressive loaders to agree. Those that are older and have arthritis will use techniques to reduce their fatigue and injury. Those things are born out in the responses given. In my case of being below the median age and loading single stage makes my answer obvious....
The lanolin thing makes no sense, because it's an oil that doesn't dry. I'm definitely not cleaning again, so only those lubricants that really dry make any sense from a contamination standpoint.
Captain*kirk
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Hmm.
I hate the thought of lubing pistol cases. I hate lubing rifle cases already and I do a lot fewer of them. The One Shot in a baggie doesn't sound too bad, though. Never used it but might consider giving it a "shot" (pun intended)
I hate the thought of lubing pistol cases. I hate lubing rifle cases already and I do a lot fewer of them. The One Shot in a baggie doesn't sound too bad, though. Never used it but might consider giving it a "shot" (pun intended)
Captain*kirk
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Banjos have springs?
This, especially as shoulder joint/arm strength getting weaker. ALOT easier, and am not using enough to worry about cleaning off.
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For 9MM, you lubers say that you lube the cases and size/deprime, immediately "bell" the case mouth, prime, powder, seat and crimp. Without ever removing the lube? I have been lubing, sizing/depriming, and then tumbling before any of the remaining steps. Trying to keep lube out of the inside of the case., which I think is important.
Am I missing something?
Am I missing something?
doubleh
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I use carbide pistol dies. I even went so far as to make a shorter lever for my press for 44 special and below because I didn't need the leverage of the full length RCBS handle with no lube. Just wasted motion.
I do go switch to the factory handle and spray lube if sizing 44 mag cases. My shoulder has been surgically rebuilt and I try to reduce stress on it as much as possible, either with less movement or more leverage.
Cooking spray is just messy. One try was enough to do me.
I do go switch to the factory handle and spray lube if sizing 44 mag cases. My shoulder has been surgically rebuilt and I try to reduce stress on it as much as possible, either with less movement or more leverage.
Cooking spray is just messy. One try was enough to do me.
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