RCBS Comp Size Die Stiff Extract

When ever I raise the ram and I feel more resistance, I lower the ram add a little more lube. You cane feel the case size much easier.
 
CW308, Then there are different lubes, most of my work does not require anything special meaning almost any lube works. For the most difficult cases to size I use a no-name lube. Most of my most difficult cases to size belong to other reloaders that insist on using Imperial sizing or Dillon in a bottle or can. It is not easy to make that stuff look good when the die wants to keep the case.

I do my best to convenes them there are cases they need to give up on.

F. Guffey
 
I have had a similar experience as F Guffey. Imperial works fine as long as the case is normal and easy to size....and there's no excess build-up of that wax in the sizer.

But in the case of LC 7.62 machinegun brass sold to me by Wideners last summer, only two of the several lubes I had on hand were good enough.....one was RCBS II in the lube pad...the other was STP! :D

The two cases where I attempted to use Dillon's lanolin lube, and Imperial wax nearly stuck, and for sure stretched the H..l out of the necks. I felt lucky not to have to find my H.M. case remover, made years ago when I did manage to stick one.

Curious Master Guffey......what's your no-name recipe.:) Does it by chance have any STP in it?
 
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I have the RCBS Competition dies and an RCBS case neck sizer. With both of the sizing dies and handle all the way down, when then raising the handle to drop the case out of the die, there is a slight resistance. For the neck die, I use the Imperial wax on the outside. I don't care much for the graphite powder for the inside. There has to be some residue after sizing. I will be trying the One Shot for inside and outside tonight. Nothing ever got stuck, but I don't want to find out about it after the fact.
 
Are you sizing with the expander ball? if so this is normal. Your Savage the chamber is tighter then the average . your neck isn't expanding as much, imperial wax on the inside of the neck lightly with a Q- tip will help. You have a benchrest chamber. See you Sunday.
 
RC20,

Look at picking up one of these. I find the carbide drags significantly less than steel.

Try a Q-tip and powdered graphite in an alcohol suspension wiped around the inside of each neck.
 
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