I use Imperial Wax for all my bottleneck cases. However the only time I have ever stuck a case was using Imperial, old age and stupidity will "get you every time". I'm NOT switching lube.
I have never seated/crimped in one step. It isn't rocket science. I had to read the instructions several times and finally got it in my thick head. You can do it too.
Delete this if it's in the wrong place. When I started loading .223 my manual (Lyman 47) lists small rifle magnum primers for use with H335. Is this written in stone someplace. Anybody use regular primers? Just about out of srm.
I feel like a complete "rookie" at about 28 years. My dad didn't hunt, and I think was afraid of guns. After I was "grown and gone". I lucked into a s&w model 15. By this time was married and started to raise a family. It dawned on me if I was going to shoot this thing on other than "special...