Long story here so bear with me, but I have used Hornady One Shot for the last 20 years with great results up until yesterday. I was sizing some 280ai and some 300 RUM cases for load work on them. I have always used Hornady 1 shot since I started reloading and over the 20 years I have stuck 2 cases. Yesterday I went to do some resizing for the 280ai and I stuck a case. They seemed a little hard on the first two but I didn't give it much thought. On the third one I stuck a case. OK, I tell myself, this happens. So in my struggles I end up with case neck separation with the neck still stuck in the case.
I am a little agitated but I decide to resize the 300 RUM as I had planned on it anyway. I do my usual routine of spraying them with the one shot. I wait a few minutes and set up the sizing die while I wait. After 10-15 minutes I get to work on the RUM cases. Again, they feel harder than they should be. I do three and then on the fourth I stick one in the die and pull off the rim. I get the case out with my homemade stuck case remover. I decide to give it another go. After doing one I end up sticking the third case of the day. By this time I am pretty irritated and I get it out. I give up at this point and decide to give up for the day. Well, by the end of the day this is eating at me as I have only stuck two cases in 20 years and now I have three in one day in two different cartridges. So I get out a set of spare RCBS 300 RUM dies and see what happens. I get three or four more done and then....you guessed it, another stuck case.
I email Redding and Hornady to ask if redding can fix my 280ai die and see if Hornady has changed the one shot recipe in the last couple of years. The can I was using is probably 2-3 years old but I have used them much longer than this in the past. I hear back from Redding very first thing this morning and they are more than happy to take care of it for me. They even offer to send me a sample tin of imperial wax to try. Well, this sparks my memory and I remember that I have a tin of this I had boughten a couple of years ago. I get home from work tonight and I proceed to give it another go. I clean all the cases to make sure they are free of one shot and then I start in using the imperial. I do have to say the first 3 or 4 were hard but not as hard as they were with the one shot. Then about case #5 they start getting easier and work like they should. I do the last 45 with no problems and most of them required minimal effort to do.
I have to say that whatever has happened to my one shot it is no longer providing any lubrication for the cases. The imperial works very good and I am impressed with it. I have yet to hear back from Hornady to see what they have to say but this provides no doubt in my mind that it is the one shot that is to blame for my troubles. I can't give the people at redding enough accolades for responding so fast and being so willing to help me solve this issue. I have used their dies for many years but I will always have a tin of imperial on the bench from now on. As far as Hornady, well, I'll see what they have to say before I pass judgement there.
Thanks for listening and has anyone else had an experience like this with one shot??
Reno
I am a little agitated but I decide to resize the 300 RUM as I had planned on it anyway. I do my usual routine of spraying them with the one shot. I wait a few minutes and set up the sizing die while I wait. After 10-15 minutes I get to work on the RUM cases. Again, they feel harder than they should be. I do three and then on the fourth I stick one in the die and pull off the rim. I get the case out with my homemade stuck case remover. I decide to give it another go. After doing one I end up sticking the third case of the day. By this time I am pretty irritated and I get it out. I give up at this point and decide to give up for the day. Well, by the end of the day this is eating at me as I have only stuck two cases in 20 years and now I have three in one day in two different cartridges. So I get out a set of spare RCBS 300 RUM dies and see what happens. I get three or four more done and then....you guessed it, another stuck case.
I email Redding and Hornady to ask if redding can fix my 280ai die and see if Hornady has changed the one shot recipe in the last couple of years. The can I was using is probably 2-3 years old but I have used them much longer than this in the past. I hear back from Redding very first thing this morning and they are more than happy to take care of it for me. They even offer to send me a sample tin of imperial wax to try. Well, this sparks my memory and I remember that I have a tin of this I had boughten a couple of years ago. I get home from work tonight and I proceed to give it another go. I clean all the cases to make sure they are free of one shot and then I start in using the imperial. I do have to say the first 3 or 4 were hard but not as hard as they were with the one shot. Then about case #5 they start getting easier and work like they should. I do the last 45 with no problems and most of them required minimal effort to do.
I have to say that whatever has happened to my one shot it is no longer providing any lubrication for the cases. The imperial works very good and I am impressed with it. I have yet to hear back from Hornady to see what they have to say but this provides no doubt in my mind that it is the one shot that is to blame for my troubles. I can't give the people at redding enough accolades for responding so fast and being so willing to help me solve this issue. I have used their dies for many years but I will always have a tin of imperial on the bench from now on. As far as Hornady, well, I'll see what they have to say before I pass judgement there.
Thanks for listening and has anyone else had an experience like this with one shot??
Reno