What's your case lube of choice?

Imperial all day every day for rifle cases.

For straight walled pistol, I know they don't require any lube with carbide sizing dies, but I use the spray on them anyway, just to make life easier. I go sparingly though. Fill a ziploc about halfway and spray one spray and shake.

My favorite is Hornady case lube in the tub. I believe it is mink oil as it has the same smell & feel. Takes only a little bit.

Imperial is my favorite - I've also had good luck with Hornady Unique but Imperial has no odor and is less greasy.

I've used about everything,but I've settled on Imperial for neck sizing and Dillon for my high volume stuff. When the Dillon run out, I plan to try making some. Lightman

A light shot of non-stick cooking spray.

Frankford Arsenal and Lee Lube

twice-rendered Spotted Owl blubber

Hornaday One Shot for day to day use, but nothing touches Imperial when you need to start putting serious torque on things.

Imperial for hand feeding cases.

Lee mixed 1:6 with denatured alcohol in a spray bottle is working all right for pistol brass in a case feeder.

Imperial Wax-hands down!

Lyman or Hornady spray lube.

"twice rendered Spotted Owl blubber". Good stuff, but it comes with too much baggage...(tree huggers).

Imperial is the best thing i've ever found for resizeing and heavy case forming.

DM

The Bushmaster said:

"twice rendered Spotted Owl blubber". Good stuff, but it comes with too much baggage...(tree huggers).

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sacrifices have to be made for a quality reloading experience.

For small batches of bolt-gun ammo, Imperial Sizing Wax. Nothing better.

For large volume of pistol cases or bottleneck cartridges going through my Dillon XL650, I use Dillon or Frankford arsenal spray lube. The sheep fat in alcohol stuff.

I've used a number of lubes and all worked just fine. Lee dry case lube was probably the one I like the most for a very long time up until I tried Dillon spray on. It is much easier to apply, and I don't ever have issues with lube dents or nasty sticky lube pads. As far cases getting stuck, I've never stuck a case in all my years of reloading. Had a couple of one's that almost stuck, but fortunately those close calls only resulted in me learning how to properly lube a case.

GS

Imperial for small batches of Rifle cal. BEST EVER!!!
RCBS pump spray for a bunch of .223 or high volume plinkers.
One shot is ok if used right, just doesnt seem to go very far per bottle

Dillon case lube for spray on ( lanolin and alcohol mixture)
Imperial sizing wax or Hornady Unique for rub on.

Lee Lube. Close to 20 years. Zero stuck cases.

Just got some Imperial Sizing Wax, so far so good. I like it.

Can't explain it, but I seem to get a more consistent push back of the shoulder (as measured with the Hornady headspace gauge set) when I use RCBS case lube and a pad, and a qtip to apply inside the case mouth, especially with 308 and 30-06 and 243.

With 223, I use RCBS case slick spray with no issues, and is much faster than the above.

About the only cases I'm lubing these days are .223 cases for bulk AR loading. I lay a bunch down flat in a large, shallow box and spray them with Frankford Aresenal (Midway) of Dillon pump-bottle lube.

You don't have to mix 'em up. The lube will migrate around the cases. Wait until the lube is dry before loading.

lanolin and alcohol mixture

Dillon spray lube works for me.

Mink Oil because I can get it at Piggly Wiggly.

Last batch of 44 mag brass I sized I used nothing, just dry. Seemed to push thru the die ok, no scratches , etc. I read somewhere you could safely do this. Any unforeseen problems I could expect?