[That'll Do]

Originally Posted by sevens

*raises hand*

I will use Imperial on 9mm, 10mm and .44 Mag resizing in my CARBIDE sizing dies.
Typically, I grab a small handful... maybe a quarter or a fifth of the entire load and lube them very lightly... so light, nothing like a piece of rifle brass and also not so much that you want or need to wipe off the lube after sizing.

With my small collection of lightly lubed pieces, I typically do 3 or 4 unlubed pieces, then grab a lubed piece, and the entire operation is smoother, with less effort, and there's a tiny piece of "warm and fuzzy" in me that hopes my brass will last 15 minutes longer than it otherwise would.

If you've never lubed a piece of pistol brass before sizing, you might not believe the difference. It's colossal. The effort to resize is slashed.

Mechanical advantage, leverage? I'm using a Lee Classic Cast, I've got quite a sturdy press. It's an animal.

Hey, I quit cleaner primer pockets some time ago, so I've got to use up some of that free time. I use it lubing a few pieces of brass!

(try it, even if all it makes you do is come back to this thread and tell me it's stoopid)

I do the same in regards lubing the cases–and it does make big difference.

I give credit on not cleaning the primer pockets–I still haven't made that jump. Baby steps...