Ammunition & Hand Loading > Cartridge and Shotshell reloading
Cleaning brass after sizing
A-FIXER:
Thats correct once green always green I mean green....
unfy:
--- Quote from: Rich B on October 08, 2009, 10:21:22 PM ---Some guys bake at 250* for an hour to dry them. Do NOT use a baking sheet you'll eat off of.
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I've heard that baking brass to dry it is a tad evil ? Fume production and possibly reducing the life cycle of the brass ?
Is this completely untrue ?
I'll get into loading 357Sig within a month or two, and I'll also eventually get into loading 30-30 and 308 ... all three of which are necked, so I wouldn't mind some heads up on drying.
Dunno if the 357sig requires lube, I imagine it might. Think I've also heard of people throwing their 357Sig brass into a bag, giving it a hit of hornady one shot, shake it around for a bit... and calling it good. One shot's some interesting stuff, but dunno if I'd trust it for the kind of pressures sizing will cause...
JimP:
Not enough lube = stuck case.
Stuck case = "show stopper".
unfy:
--- Quote from: JimP on July 08, 2010, 10:05:40 PM ---Not enough lube = stuck case.
Stuck case = "show stopper".
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:angel1: :angel1: :angel1: i accidentally missed the under-the-plate lip of my progressive ... ran the case up through the resizer... felt no resistance on the way back down.... :o
thank god it was a straight walled pistol case ;D. Taking the shell plate off, sliding the shell plate onto the rim of the brass, running the ram up, screwing shell plate back onto the ram through hole at top of press... was able to get the case out of the die 8)
i'll definitely be lubing the 357sig when i get around to reloading it :).
SemperFiGuy:
For What It's Worth........
S'Far as I know, all Brass Cartridge Cases require--or will benefit from--using some kinda case sizing lubricant.
Except.........brass cases resized in Tungsten Carbide resizing dies. My TC dies work quite well w/no case lubricant at all. None a'tall. Just run the cases thru the resizing die, bare naked. Other reloaders report the same excellent results.
.38Special, .357. 9mm all resize easily in my TC dies w/o case lube.
Now--As it happens, most Every Guy gets an Important Personal Appendage stuck in a pants zipper Just Once.
And....Most Every Reloader get a Brass Case stuck in a resizing die Just Once.
After That Most Dismal and Exasperating Experience, It's Case Lube or Tungsten Carbide dies.
Even a Reloader can get Religion.
sfg
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