Aaaaaagh Stuck Case in Sizing Die

[madcow]

That new fangled spray lube is really slick and hardly ever end up with a stuck case.

Which brand?

 

[EMC45]

Imperial case sizing wax..........

 

[madcow]

Imperial case sizing wax..........

Normally what usually use, but I ran out and had a few tubs of the Hornady wax.

 

[kuduman]

Hornady One Shot in a Ziplok bag works great.

Previously I used a shoe box lined with newspaper, and Dillon case lube. That worked great, too. But the newspaper eventually wore out, and so much for that technique.

If you put them in a loading tray, One Shot will let you get the mouths, too at the same time. But it takes a long time to do that with a large batch of brass.

 

[97 winchester]

Imperial case sizing wax..........

Yep great stuff.

 

[richs]

hell... I use some 20-50 motor oil I had left over from the 1980's. I toss the cases in a zip-lock bag with a couple squirts of oil, let it sit until the bag's about 1/2 full and size/decap them. Then they get wet-tumbled, trimmed and deburred.

 

[palmettomoon]

That's the same lube I used, but I still think it's my Hornady dies, once I found my RCBS set never had another issue.

I despise Hornady dies. They are made to sell, not to use.

 

[Freshly Minted Georgian!]

10% lanolin, 90% alcohol. Alcohol should be 91% minimum, preferably 99%. I keep a 32oz spray bottle, few squirts of brass in an old paint roller tray, let it sit out for a bit for the alcohol to flash off, good to go. Switched entirely to lanolin about three years back and haven't stuck a case since......several tens of thousands resized that way.

After sizing they go to wet tumble with dawn, citric acid (mainly to soften the water) and wax.

 

[jglenn]

You'll take note of all the possitive reviews of imperial wax. Been using it for well over 50 years without one stuck case. Not one. that covers sizing for all kinds of wildcat cartridges back in the 60-70s..

 

[Seacap]

Was sizing a huge batch of 308 Win, and it never fails, I always get a case stuck and have to pound it out with the de-capping rod.

I knew there was a reason I quit doing big batches of rifle loads.

I mix my own lube, I use 4oz of lanolin, to 16 oz of 90 percent isopropyl ( important to use 90 percent, because of water content) shake it up and put it in a sprayer, I’ve never had 1 stick using this, and is quite a bit cheaper in the long run!..I reload quite a bit