by Bmt85 » Sat Jan 12, 2019 12:48 pm
Have no experience with Hornady lubes, so can't give you info on that. I use RCBS case lube 2, for 2 reasons, one, it came with my kit, and two, it's water soluble. I wet tumble, and have heard of some lubes gunking up the pins. So I stuck with it.
What I normally do is run my cases through my wet tumbler about 2-3hrs depending, then dry. I then resize, dump them back in the wet tumbler for 30-60min, then dry. It's a process, but that's what I do. I don't know if it will mess with anything leaving the lube on, but I want a complete seal of the brass to chamber walls. Case lube could potentially mess with that, at that point it would also be inducing more force on the bolt. If I'm pushing my loads, I really don't want that!
I also don't flare my brass, don't need to (on jacketed and mono copper anyway). Use a VLD chamfer tool on the mouth a little, and there shouldn't really be a problem. If you flare the mouth, you could end up getting too much spring back on the crimp, you might also lose neck tension in that area. Which in an AR running 450B, we need what we can get.
That's my thought's anyway.