Dillion lube or Hornady one shot

[9mmepiphany]

I wipe the brass off with a water dampened cloth prior to tumbling.

Just curious, why not just tumble it off after resizing?

 

[alexcue]

Dillon for larger batches, Imperial Size wax for smaller rifle batches. After I get a couple of Dillon bottles, I just make my own. ISO-HEET and Lanolin. Can't tell the difference. I can get the IH pretty cheap too...

 

[eldon519]

In my opinion, this is the best way to use a spray lube:

Get a heavy duty ziplock like a freezer bag and give it a heavy spraying inside
Rub the bag around from the outside until the alcohol evaporates
Put your brass inside, squeeze the air out, seal it, and "massage" the brass

If you reuse the same bag over and over again, the lube builds up and you can use a lot less. You can also put thr brass in the bag and spray the lube in with the brass inside, but sometimes it gets trapped inside the cases and doesn't dry as well or makes the powder stick to the case neck.

 

[Kingcreek]

I use the Dillon lube. Brass goes into a casorole dish with a lid that keeps the residual lube clean for next time.

 

[Jmoreno88]

In my opinion, this is the best way to use a spray lube:

Get a heavy duty ziplock like a freezer bag and give it a heavy spraying inside
Rub the bag around from the outside until the alcohol evaporates
Put your brass inside, squeeze the air out, seal it, and "massage" the brass

If you reuse the same bag over and over again, the lube builds up and you can use a lot less. You can also put thr brass in the bag and spray the lube in with the brass inside, but sometimes it gets trapped inside the cases and doesn't dry as well or makes the powder stick to the case neck.

Exactly what i do with one shot and never a stuck case. I reload 223 just like pistol so I dont have to tumble twice and I believe one shot is the only lube that doesn't affect powder

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[heymarine1833]

dillon lube to me is gets sticky or gummy and i tossed my last bottle. hornady one shot seems ok but is too expensive. one lube that is very simple and super cheap yet extremely effective is one you can make yourself and never gets sticky. note: this is my own creation brought forth from frustrating case lube
you will need:

1- 10oz or 12 oz bottle with flip cap
2T 76* coconut oil or even the non solidifying cooking coconut oil but i used the 76*(can find in supermarket oil section)
2T polysorbate 20 if you can find it. it is an emulsifier
90% rubbing alcohol

melt coconut oil and pour into bottle. add polysorbate 20
add alcohol to the top...shake well

put cases in your wife's favorite cake pan, dribble case lube (well mixed) on cases and stir with your fingers until lightly coated. dont want or need a ton of this. a little goes a long way.
do not use corn oil, safflower oil, soybean oil, olive oil or canola or PAM. **** gets sticky, gummy, gross

 

[SARuger]

My vote is for Imperial Sizing Wax, I have never stuck a case. I use the RCBS lubricating pad, lay down 10 cases, roll them. I use one a lubed case for every other one that I size.

 

[Grumulkin]

Hornady One Shot is the only lube with which I got a case stuck so badly I had to discard the die. Maybe it will work in applications that don't demand too much but I will never use it again.

 

[fguffey]

I form cases for wildcat chambers. The last go-around included 240 belted magnum cases. It would have helped if all of the cases had been fired in one rifle but a wild guess based on the difficulty in sizing would be the cases had been fired in 10 different rifles. Anyhow, I was not allowed to use my no name lube meaning I had two choices; one was Dillon in a can or bottle or Imperial, when the going gets tuff it is difficult to make Dillon and or Imperial look good.

For most of my work I use RCBS, most of my work can be done with almost any lube and when dealing with lanolin I always want to give Jock O’Conner credit. In 1954 he claimed his hands hurt all the time and the only relief he got was from Lanolin, in one of his books he said when sizing cases he used extra Lanolin on his hands when lubing cases.
Problem when using extra lanolin, the lanolin must be removed after sizing.

F. Guffey

 

[AR-Bossman]

Hornady One Shot is the only lube with which I got a case stuck so badly I had to discard the die. Maybe it will work in applications that don't demand too much but I will never use it again.

I didn't get mine that stuck, but when I first started it was the hornady lube that got me in trouble.

Home made and never even came close to an issue. In fact it's so good I just throw the die in the bucket and they size themselves.

 

[Arkansas Paul]

I'll use the spray lubes with handgun brass even though you don't have to use anything.
It just makes the process go smoother.

For rifle it is Imperial wax for me.

 

[1KPerDay]

Home made and never even came close to an issue. In fact it's so good I just throw the die in the bucket and they size themselves.

This gave me a chuckle.

 

[luzyfuerza]

I've used the "Lanolin+ISO Heat (Dillon) sprayed onto brass in a plastic bag" approach for tens of thousands of .223 cases. I don't think that I've ever had powder stick inside a case lubed in this way. Of course, I am using a case feeder and the tumbling that happens inside the feeder may help to evaporate any residual alcohol that might accumulate inside the cases.

Another minor tweak: I spray in the lanolin/alcohol mix, massage the brass inside the bag, and then let the bag sit open for five minutes or so. Perhaps this also lets the alcohol evaporate before I run it through my press.