Yeah I bought the liquid lanolin and alcohol to mix but I just spend a few extra bucks and move along. Guess I'm getting lazy in my old age
Leaving Lanolin On Finished Rounds
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Yeah I bought the liquid lanolin and alcohol to mix but I just spend a few extra bucks and move along. Guess I'm getting lazy in my old age
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It helps make the press run smoother and less force on the arm. The pistol cases glide through the process.
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It's not required, sure.
I wet tumble, so the brass is super squeaky clean. It glides easily through the dies with a little lube.
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I like OneShot... but read the directions! I stuck 2 .30-06 cases in two different sessions... until... I read the directions. Now it's the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Bolt thrust is a thing... I tumble all my sized brass to get the lube off, period.
I thought the same thing back when my joints were younger and it was good exercise
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This is why i do it. Neck surgery on the horizon.
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I've got ammo I reloaded years ago in which I left the lube on ... and it looks rough these days.
I do not leave lube on anylonger.
After I have prepped all of my brass, gotten past decrimping and resizing and belling case mouths, etc ... I wet tumble. From that point forward my fingers never touch the brass or bullets again without gloves on.
I've been doing that for about seven years now and my reloads are still looking great. I reload bulk 5.56, 7.62 and 9mm at a time ... I fill milspec ammo boxes per run, and my finished product stays purdy ... and I like purdy products that I make myself, especially firearms related stuff. It's a pride issue. I want maximum performance custom tailored to fit my needs and I want it to stay purdy when I am done with a run.
So no, I no longer leave case lube on my cases but neither was I happy with dry media tumbling after case prepping.
Wet tumbling before priming and then using gloves through the remainder of the process has been my solution for quite a few years now.
There is one other HUGE benefit to doing it this way as well ... perhaps someone already knows what that is or is willing to take a guess. But it is a HUGE benefit to take into account, especially these days. HUGE
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Yeah I wet tumble before priming too. Lots of benefits to doing it that way, but not certain which one is huge.
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The experts at Dillon Precision say it is not necessary, but highly recommended to lube the cases for 9 mm even when using carbide dies AND to tumble the lube off the finished rounds for a few minutes in corn cob media. They say it helps make the equipment run more smoothly if the cases are lubed and they say to absolutely make sure to get the lube off before firing. I loaded tens of thousands of 9 mm on my Dillon XL650 without lube before hearing the interview with their experts and ever since then I have been lubing before loading. As they said in the interview I heard, no one who has tried lubing the cases before loading ever goes back to loading without lubing first. It just makes it so much nicer and easier to use some case lube.
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Not just huge .... HUGE. Massive. HUGE
Wet tumble before priming ... once wet tumbled never touch the brass or bullets or primers again without wearing gloves .... all the way to the storage box.
Lots of big benefits ... but one is a HUGE benefit.
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LOL ... no. But I like your way of thinking.
No, the added extra HUGE benefit to doing it our way is ....
.... wait for it. Here it comes. Old buddy of mine who is a blue badger who does all this security work for one of the alphabet govs taught me this ...
.... no fingerprints.
No fingerprints.
It's tradecraft evidently and something I never thought of although I had noticed that in pictures, even in the heat of the rockpile and sandbox, they were always wearing gloves.
They never touch their ammo with bare hands.
So once he started rolling his own he said never touch your ammo with bare hands once it comes out of the wet tumbler ... which is why you always make sure no more lube is necessary once it goes in the wet tumbler.
It made sense to me just because .... you just never know. It became an easy, justifiable, added precaution that I now practice without even thinking about really.
Plus I find it easier to manipulate freshly cleaned slick little cartridges with rubber gloves on ... same goes for seating those pesky little 22 and 355 pills. Just makes it easier to hold onto imho.
No, the added extra HUGE benefit to doing it our way is ....
.... wait for it. Here it comes. Old buddy of mine who is a blue badger who does all this security work for one of the alphabet govs taught me this ...
.... no fingerprints.
No fingerprints.
It's tradecraft evidently and something I never thought of although I had noticed that in pictures, even in the heat of the rockpile and sandbox, they were always wearing gloves.
They never touch their ammo with bare hands.
So once he started rolling his own he said never touch your ammo with bare hands once it comes out of the wet tumbler ... which is why you always make sure no more lube is necessary once it goes in the wet tumbler.
It made sense to me just because .... you just never know. It became an easy, justifiable, added precaution that I now practice without even thinking about really.
Plus I find it easier to manipulate freshly cleaned slick little cartridges with rubber gloves on ... same goes for seating those pesky little 22 and 355 pills. Just makes it easier to hold onto imho.
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Yeah I've noticed that sometimes bullets can stick to my bare fingers.
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If I was hyper aware of fingerprints, it would be for the esthetic blemish, rather than the information contained there in.
Well, at least I can prove which cases are mine. And I also wear gloves at work, to protect my hands from hot, sun baked metal...
I have no paranoia about my ammunition being stolen by some clandestine agency and used to frame me for a political assassination, or picked up by some flubbing flatfoot to charge me with some imagined breach of the public calm.
My skin oils are not Flouroantimonic Acid, they won’t desensitize a primer, contaminate powder or eat the brass.
The wash I use leaves a protectant on the brass to thwart tarnish.
My brass is clean, not spotless, nor sterile. But I suppose it is fun to play at James Bond sometimes. Though I highly doubt those types load their own for work...
I lube brass and leave it there for the same reasons I lubricate other metal things.
Well, at least I can prove which cases are mine. And I also wear gloves at work, to protect my hands from hot, sun baked metal...
I have no paranoia about my ammunition being stolen by some clandestine agency and used to frame me for a political assassination, or picked up by some flubbing flatfoot to charge me with some imagined breach of the public calm.
My skin oils are not Flouroantimonic Acid, they won’t desensitize a primer, contaminate powder or eat the brass.
The wash I use leaves a protectant on the brass to thwart tarnish.
My brass is clean, not spotless, nor sterile. But I suppose it is fun to play at James Bond sometimes. Though I highly doubt those types load their own for work...
I lube brass and leave it there for the same reasons I lubricate other metal things.
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