Hornady One Shot case lube

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I've been using RCBS case slick for years, but decided to try Hornady's One Shot just for a change.
I have never experienced a case stuck in a sizer die previous to using One Shot. When I started sizing .223 Rem brass, almost every other case jammed in the sizing die. I tried letting the lube dry as per Hornady's instructions, tried sizing with it still wet, tried less lube, more lube, no lube in the case neck, lube in the case neck. No change. Brass still continued to jam in the die. This necessitated taking the die apart to get the stuck case out; very frustrating.
I still had a bit of RCBS case slick left in the can, so I lubed a fresh batch of .223 brass (minimal lube) and it all ran through the sizing die with no problems or effort whatsoever.

Anybody else had issues with One Shot?
 
It's all I use. I reload several thousand rounds a year. Never a problem. Spray from both sides when the brass is in the loading block. It works right away. If your brass holder is deep you may not be getting enough lube lower down.

I use a homemade one that is only 1/4 inch deep. Use a plastic cutting board. Cut it in half. Layout and drill holes in one half then laminate the two halves together. When it gets dirty, it is dishwasher safe.
 
I've also used one-shot for thousands of rounds... Never a stuck case.
Perhaps the products name is misleading... 'Takes more than "one" shot when applying the lube to cases.

I stumbled across a recipe for a home made lube...
Calls for 1 part liquid lanolin to 12 parts 99% isopropyl alcohol...
There's a process to mix the two ingredients and from all intertoobs reports I've read it works very well.

It's also dirt cheap.
 
tbrwlf said:
It's all I use. I reload several thousand rounds a year. Never a problem. Spray from both sides when the brass is in the loading block. It works right away. If your brass holder is deep you may not be getting enough lube lower down.

I use a homemade one that is only 1/4 inch deep. Use a plastic cutting board. Cut it in half. Layout and drill holes in one half then laminate the two halves together. When it gets dirty, it is dishwasher safe.
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Do you load .223 Rem using One Shot? If so, what brand die set are you using?
I tried the One Shot on some .308 Win brass this evening. The brass didn't jam in the die, but it was very, very sticky....a lot more effort required to size the brass compared to brass that I lubed with RCBS case slick. Trust me, I lubed all the brass correctly.
 
667 said:
I've also used one-shot for thousands of rounds... Never a stuck case.
Perhaps the products name is misleading... 'Takes more than "one" shot when applying the lube to cases.

I stumbled across a recipe for a home made lube...
Calls for 1 part liquid lanolin to 12 parts 99% isopropyl alcohol...
There's a process to mix the two ingredients and from all intertoobs reports I've read it works very well.

It's also dirt cheap.
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Same question as above....do you load .223 Rem using One Shot and if so, what brand die set are you using?
 
Six Star said:
Same question as above....do you load .223 Rem using One Shot and if so, what brand die set are you using?
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Thousasnd of rounds of .223 using standard run of the mill Hornady dies.
I think the trick is to shake the spray can often... Spray/shake... Spray/shake... etc..
Also... You have to make sure you get the lube into the case neck... The only time I've experienced somewhat less than smooth sizing is when I've failed to do this and it's the expander button that drags or grabs onto the inside of the case neck.

The stuff is harmless to powder/primers so don't worry about a little sray getting into the case.

That said...

Although I find the One Shot works for me... The number of cans I go through make it seem rather expensive for what it is...
Check this thread out over at AR15.com

'Got my isopropyl at Walmart... 'Gonna get me some lanolin tomorrow and see how it works.
 
I throw cases in a tupperware container, spray it, close lid, swirl, repeat a couple of more times works pretty darn good.
 
I use it for a dozen or more different cartridges regularly and never had a stuck case. I won't use it for heavy case refoming though, only regular resizing. I use it with .223 Lee dies and I've never had a problem.

To use One-Shot properly: line up a row of brass. Hold the nozzle about 6 inches above and 6 inches to the side of the line, then spray down at a 45 degree angle while moving the can down the the line of brass. You are getting lube on the outside of the brass as well as the inside of the case mouth if you do it this way. Move to the other side and do the same thing on that side. You should moove fairly fast, a light coat with no runs. Should take about a 1-2 seconds to spary a line of 20 cartridges spaced about a half inch apart.

A lot of stuck case problems come from not lubing properly inside the case neck.
 
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667 said:
I stumbled across a recipe for a home made lube...
Calls for 1 part liquid lanolin to 12 parts 99% isopropyl alcohol...
There's a process to mix the two ingredients and from all intertoobs reports I've read it works very well.

It's also dirt cheap.
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Just today I looked at a bottle of Dillon case lube, ingredients were Lanolin and Alcohol, came home and looked at an old old bottle of RCBS lube, ingredient lanolin.

So I'm with you here, why spend $10 for a little bottle of the stuff when you can make your own.

I'll let everyone know how this recipe works
 
Heddok said:
Just today I looked at a bottle of Dillon case lube, ingredients were Lanolin and Alcohol, came home and looked at an old old bottle of RCBS lube, ingredient lanolin.

So I'm with you here, why spend $10 for a little bottle of the stuff when you can make your own.

I'll let everyone know how this recipe works
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Let us know where you find the anhydrous lanolin.

I tried Hornady One Shot on .223 once when I ran out of Dillon case lube.
What a disaster that was. If I'm bulk loading its Dillon case lube and for individual cases I like Hornady Unique which I find works just as well as Imperial Sizing Wax for a fraction of the price.
 
I bought a tube of lanolin off of ebay about 5 years ago and I am down to the last little bit and will need some more shortly. You want the Anhydrous Lanolin and not the hydrous Lanolin (water in it). It works very well as a case lube with 99% Alcohol. I have used as low as 92% alcohol but the lanolin and the alcohol tend to separate very easily and to use it requires a lot of shaking up first to get them to mix, sort of.

You melt the lanolin in a double boiler, (soup can full in a pot of water) and then mix with the alcohol. There are various recipes for what ratio to mix and I personally go 5 to 1 alcohol to lanolin. Some other people go thinner than that but that is what I stay to and have never had a stuck case.

Put it in a small pump bottle and very easy to use, put the brass on a piece of news paper and give the lot a quick spray and wait a couple of minutes and roll them around to the other side and repeat. The alcohol works as a transfer agent for the lanolin and quickly drys off the brass to leave a slight film of lanolin on the brass.

I then have a small container of lanolin beside the press and about every 5th piece I touch the case mouth on the lanolin to lube the inside of the sizer die and that is it. About 5 times quicker than the old pad and grease routine.
 
All I ever use , use it to size 17 rem 22 hornet 222 223 and so on up to 45/70 Never ever had a problem Was not that long ago there was someone else was using Hornady one shot but it was cleaner not lube They were using the wrong prodoct
 
Heddok said:
So I'm with you here, why spend $10 for a little bottle of the stuff when you can make your own.
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Yeah really... I paid less than $4 for a 500ml bottle of 99% isopropyl and the liquid lanolin was $12 for 250ml.
The price on the lanolin was higher than I expected, but... I bought it retail from a store... You can probably get it for less on-line.
So for $16 I can have much more lube than is in a $10 can of One Shot.
 
I use One Shot on 223 in RCBS dies...no issues....i use the plastic food trays that ground beef comes in (I have hundreds as my company is a distibutor of film and trays to food packaging plants)

i line them up, spray em and shake back and fourth so they roll....

I find it doesnt do as well as Lee lube on bigger cases that i'm forming....mainly when i'm making 8x57 mauser from 30-06
 
Colin said:
I throw cases in a tupperware container, spray it, close lid, swirl, repeat a couple of more times works pretty darn good.
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That's how I lube brass as well....it's worked perfectly until I tried One Shot. I also made sure that plenty of lube got inside the case neck. I also rattled the can well before spraying.
Oh well......I've got an RCBS die set in .223 on the way, I'll give it another try. It may just be that One Shot and Lee don't get along.
 
jethunter said:
A lot of stuck case problems come from not lubing properly inside the case neck.
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Sorry, cannot concur with this statement.
Never heard of a case stuck in a die because the neck was not lubed inside.
A bit hard to pull over the expander button, maybe, but stuck in the die? Not.

I have little or no use for spray lubes, and have used Imperial Sizing Wax for 20+ years now, with nary a glitch.
I hate getting any lube on the shoulder of a bottleneck case, so another reason to avoid the spray types.
Whatever works, though. carry on.
Eagleye.
 
I have uses a spray lube yrs ago aftr usin the lube pad while reloading 222 ammo. after having a few stuck case problems I went back to my RCBS and the lube pad and no more problems !!! I now use RCBS spray lube, cut it with rubbing alcohol and spray it on my lube pad, and no problems that way either.AND I dry lube all the necks on every bottle neck case I reload, just to save on my arm !!!
 
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