I guess I don't understand the advantges to spending money on carbide dies if you are going to lube them anyways. I'm also having trouble understanding the advantages of progressive reloading if you have to add extra steps to make it work.
The advantage is the ease of resizing. The advantage is you
don't have to lube if you don't want to or don't have the time, and you can still resize your brass. With the spray type lubes, one really isn't adding a step to each case, just a quick spray into a baggie full of brass. Again, even with carbide dies, die manufacturers recommend the use of lube with some handgun calibers. How foolish of them, eh?
Again, like the trimming of handgun brass, sorting by headstamp and tumbling after loading, not everyone does. In every case, it is not wrong either way, but right. Seems everytime one of these types of thread comes up, someone has to add a snark comment like
I guess we had super slick range dust on the brass we were picking up
in attempt to belittle those that do things different. Probably the same folks that feel a need to belittle folks that use catchup on steak or mustard on their eggs. I'm thinkin' it must be a form of insecurity, eh?
As for the lube contaminating powder or primers or influencing neck tension, why is handgun brass any different than rifle brass where one lubes the case and actually lubes the inside of the case neck?
Reloading is a personal thing and many folks are more meticulous than I, have different techniques than I and have different priorities than I. But most of us still make safe and accurate ammo altho our methods are different. Pretty amazing, eh?