Case question

[sauer06]

Guys I have a quick and probably dumb question but I was depriming and full length resizing a bunch 30.06 cases and I noticed one case had a nasty deep crease line about a quarter inch off the base of the case. I have seen this before when I have reloaded center fire cases before but never this deep. When I looked at the rest of my cases that came out of the press they all had a line in the same area but most were not nearly so deep. And another thing the cases were very difficult to extract from my RCBS press. I checked the RCBS die and it looked clean, the cases were all lubed with RCBS lube and pad, and these cases are only on there 1st or second reload, so what do you think

[Ridge Runner]

clean your die, disassemble it, use a bore brush, spray with degreaser, then lube sparingly.
RR

[Pawildman]

Are you lightly lubing the inside of the necks too?

[sauer06]

I never lube the inside of the neck, I am to afraid of getting my powder mixed in with lube.

[Big Z]

I spray one-shot straight down on case mouths with no issues--just sayin.

[Pawildman]

Originally Posted by sauer06

I never lube the inside of the neck, I am to afraid of getting my powder mixed in with lube.

....If you don't lightly lube the inside of your case necks, your casings will bind on the expander ball some on the way into the die, but much moreso on removing the brass from the die. You also run the risk of slightly changing shoulder angle by actually pulling the brass foreward slightly when removing the case.
Do yourself a favor and at least try lubing the inside of the necks. There are several different methods and devices out there. I use a q-tip and Imperial sizing die wax. Vaseline works well, too, as does your RCBS lube. You don't need a sloppy bunch of it. Simply lightly roll an end of the q-tip in your lube, insert in the case mouth, spin once and remove it. Run the casing into the die, and remove. Much better, huh? Take a dry q-tip and wipe out the case mouth. Done. I very, very rarely have any powder adhere to the inside of the neck except for a little Ball powder sometimes. I usually lube about 5 case necks before I re-charge the q-tip with more lube. When it gets raggy-looking, get a new q-tip. They're pretty cheap.....

[Ridge Runner]

if you don't lube the inside necks, you will in time stick a case, guarranteed.
RR

[Wayspr]

While on the subject of lubing case necks, I recently started using mica to lube my necks. I have found that that the cases are harder to size. What do the more experienced loaders think of dry neck lubes?

[Pawildman]

Originally Posted by Wayspr

While on the subject of lubing case necks, I recently started using mica to lube my necks. I have found that that the cases are harder to size. What do the more experienced loaders think of dry neck lubes?

...Never used graphite or mica. No experience there. It has always seemed to me that it would be hard to get it to stay where you wanted it.

[pnut]

Load a round and eject it from your gun and make sure that it's not scratching it in the action. My Remmy VTR was doing that on every case.
I sent it off to Remington and they returned it 3days later saying it was normal.
Finding thisunacceptable so I found the bur in the action and worked on it slowing with a jewelry file and emery cloth and it now it doesn't scratch the cases anymore.