Oh that's frustrating. I don't have a 45 but I'm still struggling with that darn 9 mm to find a load that will work in both my pistol and my PC carbine. The PC carbine seems to be very forgiving but the Walther not so much. God I hate scraping lead.
My only Lee dies are carbide pistol, and I have no experience with this. What I do know is that my Redding full length 30-06AI die has seen the the highest use of the stuck case remover tool!
The things that make the AI rounds out perform their parents are the same things that make a case more likely to become stuck.
The only stuck cases I've ever had were using the RCBS lube pad and Hornady resizing die. That is why I switched to the lanolin/heat concoction, since that day I have not had many stuck cases and they get pounded out with the decapping pin. Knock on wood.
Dang-it Jim! I was just going to say I thought my FL Hornady Dies in .30-06, .30-30, 6.5X55 Swede and .30 Carbine were the bomb. And I am using the RCBS lube pad. Never even had the feeling that a case was going to stick. I almost WANT to get a stuck case so I can feel how it comes to that? i've even push it at times doing a second case sans lube because the first one was SO smooth. Though there is the fact that YOU most likely have sized 100:1, or more, cases than I have in your years loading.
I can tell you exactly how it feels haha. It's like having the stomach flu when you pull back up on the handle and everything just stays there haha. The one I had I was lucky to get out with a hammer and a punch and a vice very carefully. I started using Imperial sizing wax and Hornady unique after that and I've never had an issue since. Not even close.
The Hornady dies I bought here used when I first started reloading not that many years ago (2012).
Yeah when that handle doesn't come back up is the worst situation you can get with a stuck case. Kinda get that acid reflux/hysteria feeling once it hits me.
Sounds like I started just a bit before you. I bought my RCBS kit in Nov 2011. I just played on the press and read the book. And there were people I talked to that I was buying components and pieces of the process from. With the RCBS lube/pad I note that it doesn't take very much. I lube necks with Imperial dry lube.The Hornady dies I bought here used when I first started reloading not that many years ago (2012).
I did not have any hands on training or a local mentor/guru to guide me, all my knowledge came from gun forums and U-tubby. I may have used too much sticky stuff on the cases.
I imagine the real fun (NOT) comes when the ram comes down with the rim fully intact? And no case with it!Yeah when that handle doesn't come back up is the worst situation you can get with a stuck case. Kinda get that acid reflux/hysteria feeling once it hits me.
I've had some that popped out of the shell holder, bent the rim of the case but were easily pounded out with a long thin punch I made.
Me thinks it would be kind of hard to keep cases warm while resizing 500+.
I'm talking stuck case. Warm the die some. (?)Me thinks it would be kind of hard to keep cases warm while resizing 500+.
I think you would have to warm it more than with a hair dryer. And who knows how warm is too warm? It might be better to stick it in the freezer for a couple days and go the other way since brass and steel expand at different rates. At least that's how I remember it.
Good point
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