Tumbling media and media polish for pistol in progressive

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Each time I decide not to lube my cases, my 650 gives a good amount of resistance when resizing.
And I just hate everything associated with case lubing (on pistol cases in a progressive only).

Is there a certain dry tumble media + media polish mix that get's your cases slippery enough to lessen the resistance?

For what it's worth, I use generic no name corncob media with nu finish car wax.
Also tried with Dillon in the past.

Another detail, when I used to shoot 1911s it wasn't much of a problem, since switching to Glocks my press is now forcing the casing in for resizing.
 
I use Hornady One shot. Spray a good amount into a large Ziploc freezer bag, dump in my brass and shake it around to put a thin film on it, then dump it into a plastic container. Let it sit a few minutes to dry and then load away.

Auggie D.
 
Got 2 cans of one shot, if I'm going spray it's my go to, trying to avoid spraying altogether.
As the ones that are safe for my health are crap to manage (Lee, Dillon), and ones that are easy to manage are unhealthy (hornady).
 
MartyK2500 said:
Got 2 cans of one shot, if I'm going spray it's my go to, trying to avoid spraying altogether.
As the ones that are safe for my health are crap to manage (Lee, Dillon), and ones that are easy to manage are unhealthy (hornady).
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What is unhealthy exactly? I have heard this before but no one can come up with anything other than the stupid California warning which is on all sorts of perfectly safe items. The MSDS shows its mostly hexane and some other petroleum products. Hexane isn't very toxic unless you burn or drink it and there appears to be no Benzene present...
 
Hornady one shot works well.

But I typically put a few squirts of Meguiar’s ultimate compound (Car paint compound) in the media when tumbling and the cases not only seem to come out extremely clean (looking new), but slick as snot, and there is no need to use the one shot when I use the Lock N Load Progressive to load straight wall pistol cartridges. I use carbide dies though so YMMV.
 
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I do not have the knowledge in chemistry to assume/presume products are safe or not.
The way I see it, on Dillons bottle it says 100% safe, on hornady’s can you see dead fish and a warning logo.
In ignorance I err on the side of safety.

Markit thanks I’ll try
I do use Dillon carbide dies btw
 
Certain markets require those pictograms just like the California warning. I was genuinely curious if you knew of any dangerous chemicals in it. Best I can tell it's just relatively harmless light solvents and likely Lanolin for lubricity.
 
OP: 9mm?
I take a 2L ice cream pail, dump a bunch of casings in there, spray the wall of the tub with a bit of Lynman's spray lube, put the lid on it, and give it all a quick shake. Enough lube ends up on the cases that they go through the sizing die like grass through a goose....
 
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