Seeking more uniform shoulder setback, I switched from graphite to Imperial for lubing case mouth interiors, and installed a Redding Carbide Button.
Although the Carbide Button may eliminate the need for lubing mouth interiors, I decided to use a little Imperial on the first 20 or so rounds in the ladders I am working up to shoot tomorrow, just to further slick up the button.
I get an incredible amount of powder dragout with Imperial inside the mouths: so much so that I can hear the kernels falling out and hitting the press, and enough, I am pretty sure, to show up on the chrono.
This is not a huge deal, I can fix it by returning to mica/graphite, or testing to see whether the Carbide Button will actually work well without lube, and not pull the shoulders out. However, I am curious: I know many of you use Imperial or suchlike for this purpose, do you have this issue?
Although the Carbide Button may eliminate the need for lubing mouth interiors, I decided to use a little Imperial on the first 20 or so rounds in the ladders I am working up to shoot tomorrow, just to further slick up the button.
I get an incredible amount of powder dragout with Imperial inside the mouths: so much so that I can hear the kernels falling out and hitting the press, and enough, I am pretty sure, to show up on the chrono.
This is not a huge deal, I can fix it by returning to mica/graphite, or testing to see whether the Carbide Button will actually work well without lube, and not pull the shoulders out. However, I am curious: I know many of you use Imperial or suchlike for this purpose, do you have this issue?