Anyone Lube Pistol Cases?

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Does anyone out there lube their pistol cases prior to sizing with carbide dies? I was just reading some posts on another forum and some of the folks there swear by lubing cases with some hornady one shot before loading - even with carbide pistol dies.

Does anyone on here do it? Does this make it appreciably easier? Also, if you are using something like oneshot, do you then need to clean the completed rounds after loading them? If so, how??
 
I use Hornady One Shot to lube my 45 ACP cases because It's much easier and faster. For 9mm, I don't bother since it doesn't stick much on dies.
 
For loading .40 on my Dillon 1050, I hadn't been using lube ... until yesterday ...

I had noticed that the sizing/depriming die was pulling quite a bit as the tool head was moving back up, creating a "thunk" as the die cleared the case. Tried some lube, and no "thunk" at all ... straight in and out ... guess I'm a believer now ...

But how to clean it off of loaded ammo? Not sure, although I read somewhere about it running it in your tumbler to clean it off ... never tried it myself, I just used paper towels for those ones
 
If you like your brass squeaky clean and very shiny, you may run into a problem with carbide sizing dies: sometimes, very clean brass tends to stick on carbide and you get some surface "chafing" (there's a technical term to this but I can't seem to remember it).
Just lay your brass on a flat surface and spray one or two little clouds of sizing lubricant or PAM about two feet above it then resize as usual. These very thin traces of lubricant will eliminate any scoring of the brass.
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Yep, not much, just a very light spray over top of the brass in the bucket every once in a while, nothing fancy at all.

I don't bother removing it because the amount is so tiny. Use a spray lube that tends to dry. Not messy at all, but makes the press run MUCH smoother and easier.
 
i load 9, 40 45, on a 550 & use dillon lube cut 50% with methel, i find it much easier. i delube in the tumbler with plain course walnut,& used dryer sheet for as long as it takes to load another 100 12min.+/-.
 
Wife uses it on her dillon 650 for 9mm (dillon case lube) I don't lube my .45 cases on my 550b but its very smooth the way it is
 
Nope; it defeats the purpose of carbide pistol dies, IMHO. Carbide dies eliminate the need for lubrication and the subsequent removal of lube. My Lee carbide pistol dies work very slick without any lubrication.
 
I always lube pistol brass and then put them in the tumbler to clean it off after they are loaded, 500 at a time... the press works so much smoother and makes loading a few thousand a day easy as pie... :)
 
Shootshellz said:
Nope; it defeats the purpose of carbide pistol dies, IMHO. Carbide dies eliminate the need for lubrication and the subsequent removal of lube. My Lee carbide pistol dies work very slick without any lubrication.
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You should try it before you knock it. We are not talking about lubing the way you lube a rifle case, 100%, think in terms us using only 5%, and you don't need to remove it.
 
JOJOPINTO said:
I always lube pistol brass and then put them in the tumbler to clean it off after they are loaded, 500 at a time... the press works so much smoother and makes loading a few thousand a day easy as pie... :)
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+1 on lube, I do it for all pistol calibers I reload. Keeps my elbow/shoulder problems in check at the end of a reloading day. :D

4-5 drops of any motor oil into a Ziplock freezer bag, dump about 200 cases in, and toss them around. Gives a nice thin film on the outside, and no oil gets inside the brass.

Afterwards, just do quick toss in a rag towel, about 100 at a time.
 
I've never lubed pistol brass before depriming/sizing, but just for sh!ts and giggles, I might give it a try next time I reload.

I HAVE heard that a very small amount of lube on tapered pistol brass (such as 9mm Parabellum) may have a beneficial effect on how easy the brass is deprimed/sized.

That said, I've never had a problem with not lubing pistol brass in carbide dies and I've loaded several thousand rounds in the past year.
 
A large ziplock bag, a 1 second shot of Lyman quick spray into it. Pour 4-500 pcs of squeaky clean 9mm. Runs like hot butter in a dillon XL650.
Same for 45acp.
10 seconds rolling around inside a old sweatshirt with the neck and arms sewn shut and stack them into the boxes.
 
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