Lee Decapper/stuck case

[AGGRO]

35 years reloading and I finally stuck a case. What ya'll using?

[tonyjr]

40 + for me . My nephews have brought 3 home [ one was given to me - a 243 - into freezer , then sonic and into loadmaster . Nephew said - he said he os sticking with Lyman , tell your uncle he can have the dam Lee's . ]
All 3 times when cases came , they had little flecks of rust on them .
I never do more than 400 reloads before my dies go into sonic with either WD - 40 or CRC 232 .
Others will say I am crazy [ etc ] but my loadmaster has places for 5 dies so I use all 5 [ deprime , clean and reprime off press ]
I / we do mostly pistols but lately they are shooting the 308s like the 22 lr .
I use the Lee universal decapper , then the sizer .
I have often wondered why there are 5 die holes , but the best / most dies in a set are 4 - anyone got answer ?
Sorry 'bout hi-jacking thread -

[AGGRO]

Redding dies, plenty of lube just brass from the range that has blown out chambers. I avoid military stuff that might be machine gun stuff but this one got me. Didn't seem that tight but on the down stroke the rim just melted.

[knucklehead0202]

What caliber was it? I mostly decap with the LEE universal decap die then resize separately but have has issues with certain brass/ammo.

Using the universal decapper, I hate some problems with HotShot ammo in 6.5x55 that I shot out of my Ljungman ag42b. The primer holes are boxer but smaller than normal and the pin would stick in them. After breaking 2 LEE pins, I purchased some tapered ball-point pins on ebay, but haven't used them. Instead I took to running them onto a flash hole deburring tool on my Lyman case prep express before decapping. Open up that flash hole a bit and no more issues.

For resizing I use the cheap Frankford Arsenal spray stuff and never have a problem. Everyone has their own preference but a lot of them work very well. I have also heard imperial is the bee's knees.

[tonyjr]

Any range brass that is crimped goes into brass bucket .
I decap my pistol cases with the frankford decapper , so have plenty of decapping pins .
Bottle necks are a different story . I used to decap the 243 , 270 30/30 and 30-06 on single stage - I was just sighting in the rifles .
When CA when goofy , 3 nephews wanted 308 and 762 .
Now I decap at one station and resize on next - then clean primer pocket and flash hole [ no sense in getting the media any dirtier than needed ]

[AGGRO]

What caliber was it? I mostly decap with the LEE universal decap die then resize separately but have has issues with certain brass/ammo.

Using the universal decapper, I hate some problems with HotShot ammo in 6.5x55 that I shot out of my Ljungman ag42b. The primer holes are boxer but smaller than normal and the pin would stick in them. After breaking 2 LEE pins, I purchased some tapered ball-point pins on ebay, but haven't used them. Instead I took to running them onto a flash hole deburring tool on my Lyman case prep express before decapping. Open up that flash hole a bit and no more issues.

For resizing I use the cheap Frankford Arsenal spray stuff and never have a problem. Everyone has their own preference but a lot of them work very well. I have also heard imperial is the bee's knees.

.308 not crimped military ammo. Probably just soft brass on the rim but it just came right off. I'm ordering the stuck case kit today. I'm sure I'll get my $ out of it.

[mtenenhaus]

I've had good luck with the hardened recapping pins. for lube i use pure liquid lanolin and 99% isopropyl alcohol mix (9:1 ratio) as a spray, works great. leaned about it from a long time bullseye shooter/reloader. you can get all these on amazon.