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wncchester · August 9, 2012, 06:34 PM

"I bought some once fired brass (22-250) and some must have been sized in a rifle with a severely oversized chamber. I tired several different lubes (including my favorite and Imperial) and for those cases, it would stick."

I don't know what happened to you but I routinely reform .30-06 and .270 cases into .243 and .22-250 without sticking and I doubt that firing your cases in another .22-250 chamber would have as much difference as that. But I do properly apply a case lube, ANY commericial case lube and several excellant substitutes as well. But I don't care for expensive, messy and wasteful spray case lubes at all. YMMV.

No one ever had a case get stuck in a die because they didn't lube inside the neck.

August 9, 2012, 06:34 PM	#21
wncchester Senior Member Join Date: December 1, 2002 Posts: 2,832	"I bought some once fired brass (22-250) and some must have been sized in a rifle with a severely oversized chamber. I tired several different lubes (including my favorite and Imperial) and for those cases, it would stick." I don't know what happened to you but I routinely reform .30-06 and .270 cases into .243 and .22-250 without sticking and I doubt that firing your cases in another .22-250 chamber would have as much difference as that. But I do properly apply a case lube, ANY commericial case lube and several excellant substitutes as well. But I don't care for expensive, messy and wasteful spray case lubes at all. YMMV. No one ever had a case get stuck in a die because they didn't lube inside the neck.