Lubricating Case procedure

[hikari]

Good day guys

I have just picked up a hornady lnl press (new to reloading)
I was wondering what procedure or what is the best way you guys have found to lub rifle cases. (ex 223)

Thanks..

Also what products do you guys requmend some people suggest wax other oil?? thought suggestion

[Bruce3]

http://www.tacticoolproducts.com/caselube/

[Army GI]

Wow, great link. Thanks!

[1911su16b870]

I tumble cases, spin, place in a plastic dish, two sprays of the Dillon lube, shake the cases in the dish, then size-deprime, clean necks-primer pockets, then back in tumbler for de-lubing, then load.

[ciscosixgun]

Hornady One Shot is good stuff.

[Rule .308]

It is a bit more expensive to get started but what I use is a Dillon full length trimmer coupled with an RCBS sized die all set up in my 550. One pull of the handle and you get a lubed, decaped, full length resized, trimmed and de-burred piece of brass. The only other thing worth mentioning is that it does not expand the neck of the brass during the resizing process and that it will be expanded on the down stroke when you are doing the actual reloading of the brass. Resizing on the down stroke instead of on the upstroke tends not to stretch your brass so much.

[ar15barrels]

I use a specially modified RCBS lube die to decap and lube the case before I size and trim with a Dillon trimmer.

[Gunsrruss]

Be Easy on yourself.....

Buy the RCBS lube Pad or kit. Then buy about 3 bottles of Dillon lube 8 oz I think. Spray the Dillon lube on the pad and let it dry, or not wet. Roll your case on the pad and size and decap. It doesn't get any easier, and it won't fail you Pm me if you need to talk about this on the phone,
Russell

[bohoki]

i normally have a greazy hand kind of goo them up as i place them in the shellholder

[Rangerat]

I dump 50 or so cases in a sandwich size baggie, squirt one (or two) quick spray of Dillon lube, seal bag, then shake and roll in my hands a bit. Dump out and let dry. Can hardly tell there is lube on them but they never stick in the die. If I have only a couple I want to lube I put them in the same baggie as used before, no spray, then roll in my hands. There is always some left in the baggie which I use over and over again.

[Rule .308]

Sometimes it is the simple things that we do that get overlooked. Before I bought my Dillon trimmer and RCBS lube die I had to lube my stuff like you guys are talking about. I tried the lube pad but found it to be slow and messy. I found that if you threw your brass, especially rifle brass, into a large bowl and swirled it around like you were mining for gold dust that the brass tended to align itself so that you could grab up handfuls of brass that was all aligned either necks up or necks down. Take your brass, lay it out on a cookie sheet, give it a couple of shots of spray lube like Dillon's or Hornaday's, roll the brass back and forth, a couple more light shots of lube, let it dry for a few and then go to town. The simple deal of using the large bowl to align the brass so that you can grab up a handful that is all pointed in the same direction makes it easier to inspect primer pockets, check/sort headstamps then switch hands so that it is now necks up and you can inspect the necks for any defects if you need to. A large collander works real well also as it allows media, spent primers and whatever other crap that might have gotten into your brass to fall out onto the floor.

[All Nav]

You're gonna get a ton of opinions, but tuck mine away for future reference once you've tried all the other methods. Three words: Imperial Sizing Wax. Just put a bit on your fingers, carefully run them over the case (avoiding the shoulder), scrape your finger over the case mouth (to lube the inside of the neck) and full-resize. Once you are done, rinse with hot water, and you're good to go. I have yet to crush a case or get one stuck in my die, and I just processed 1500+ pieces of once-fired LC '06 .223 brass. Best lube on the market, bar none.

[ar15barrels]

Get a little cardboard slip-top box, like wallets or tap handles come in.
You want it about 4x6 or 5x7 and maybe 1" thick.
Open the box up and you have two sides.
Drop 10-12 rounds in one side.
Give it a single squirt of dillon case lube.
Shake the box to roll the cases around.
Set that box aside.
Drop another 10-12 rounds in the other side, squirt and shake.
Now go back to the first box and start sizing them.
When the first box runs out of cases, add 10-12 more, squrt and shake.
Repeat this each time you get through the next box.
The time it takes you to size 10-12 cases gives the cases in the other box time to dry about right.
When you are all done, save those boxes by putting them back together.
At first, it will take more lube as some gets absorbed into the boxes.
After a while, they will saturate and you won't have to spray as much.
I have used this process for years when I will be sizing on a press without a casefeeder.

[jandmtv]

I use dillon case lube for the single stage, but for my XL650, I have a lube die that does the work for me as i pull the handle.

[kmca]

Just a quick word on Hornady One Shot. I was getting a lot of stuck cases (.223) using One Shot and RCBS dies, so I called RCBS. When I told the nice lady about sticking cases, the first thing she asked was if I was using One Shot. She said 90% of the calls she was getting about stuck cases, involved One Shot. She suggested I clean my thoroughly clean my dies and change lubes, of course she recommended RCBS lube I haven't had a stuck case since.