Help please, having die problem

[sava6e]

first off id like to say im new to reloading so this may be a simple answer. my buddy let me borrow his dies and they worked fine, today i bought some dies which are a totally different brand (not that that has anything to do with it, hopefully) and it is really hard to pull the lever down to deprime, and after about 7 rounds i got a case stuck up in the die because the shell holder ripped the bottom sleeve off the case. sorry if this doesn't make sense just a little frustrated. yes the dies are marked with 30-06 so i know they are correct. im lost any help please.

[CSACANNONEER]

What kind of lube were you not using enough of?

[crowbar]

All of the die companies make a gizmo called a stuck case remover; but no sense spending money on something you'll only use once. Can you unscrew the expander from the die and use a dowel to tap the case out ? BTW, are you sizing military cases ?

[rksimple]

What kind of lube were you not using enough of?

+1.

[Fjold]

Brand new dies need to be lubed well before you start loading. I take the expander ball stem out of new dies and clean it. Then I spray Hornady One-Shot into the dies bodies and on the expander plug and reassemble it.

I then put all my cases in a case block, mouth up and spray the lube in and around the case necks, rotate the case block and spray them again.

I let the lube dry then start relaoding.

[sava6e]

well the one that broke is marked f.c. 30-06 springfield and yes some of the brass i was having problems with is military. and im using one shot and enough of it because with my buddys dies i was having no problem.

[wellfedirishman]

Military brass problems

I found that some military 30-06 is problematic. Anything with HXR (Greek) headstamp was really hard to deprime in my Lee press. It was such a pain I quit using that brass.

Lake City (LC) seems to be easy enough to use, in my experience. Just deprime, remove the crimp (a few turns with a philips head screwdriver works fine), and it is ready to go.

[sava6e]

okay finally got it out, problem is/was i had the die set too low and the depriming pin set too high so the shell would wedge in( a lot easier than to get out) but lesson learned and one to remember.

[CSACANNONEER]

One Shot is good but, Imperial Sizing Wax is the ONLY way to go.

[ETD1010]

One Shot is good but, Imperial Sizing Wax is the ONLY way to go.

But One Shot is easier to apply to multiple cartridges at once.. and it works well... I feel unless I'm only loading 25 or so at a time, it's too time consuming to use the imperial stuff.... however, there may be easier ways to apply it then I'm thinking...