Why take it off?
According to the Lyman Reloading manual, lubed ammo causes excessive thrust on the bolt face, stressing the locking lugs, and over a period of time, could cause excessive headspace or even locking lug failure.
I remove lube by tumbling the sized cases in warm water and liquid Tide. I oven dry at 200 degrees for 2 hours and then reload on my 650 the same as pistol ammo.
In the past, I have loaded without separate sizing, and tumbled the loaded ammo in corncobs treated with mineral spirits. This works quite well. The reason that I now resize as a separate operation is because I like to run my resized cases through a case guage before continuing the loading process. (For bottleneck cases only)
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