by BigDog58 on Thu Mar 02, 2017 11:16 pm
benny, most likely your pistol dies are carbide and your rifle dies are plain steel. With the carbide pistol dies there is usually no need to lube your cases.
With steel rifle dies you WILL need to lube your brass before resizing. For simple Full Length Resizing I use a homemade spray lube. I use it on everything from .30 Carbine through 50 BMG. I like it for a couple of reasons. 1- Making it myself, reduces the cost from over $1 an ounce, to about $.50 an ounce (we use a lot on 50 BMG cases). 2- By spraying cases from an approximate 45 deg down angle, it lubes both the outside and inside the neck of the case. Inside the neck lube, helps prevent pulling the neck and stretching the brass. After resizing, I tumble my cases to remove the lube, but have also simply wiped the case with a paper towel. I have not seen any effect to my rifle chamber by not tumbling, but I will wet tumble them if I'm not in a hurry to load the cases.
I think I have a posting somewhere on this forum about my formula for the spray lube. I'll try to locate it and post if you need it. It is quite simple to make, and takes less than 15 minutes.
Jim
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