Well I got started last night. I was resizing .300win cases for the first time and I wa scurious about the amount of pressure needed to raise the press lever to lower the casing from the die. I'm kinda like a cub bear with boxing gloves on, you knopw the kind of guy that always bust of at least one bolt at the end of every five minute job. I din't notice any case damage but it seemed initially hard to raise the lever up. Is this normal? Thanks, Chain

The sloppier your chamber the more effort it will take to size a case. Keep them lubed and you shouldn`t have any troble. If you don`t use enough lube you`ll pull the rim off your brass sticking the case in the die before you harm the press.

I think that using a good lube on the case to do the sizing is important. Or, you will stick a case in that die as Ol' Joe says. I did it once.. And, hopefully I won't be doing that again. The best lube I've found is Imperial Sizing Wax. I put it on the case body, but not on the shoulder. If you put it on the shoulder, you'll stand a good cance of putting a dimple in the shoulder from hydraulic action. I use the powdered mica on the necks so the sizing of the neck down, and the expanding it back with the die's expander ball, is done effortlessly.
Don

just make sure you lube the inside of the neck as well as the body of the case.

Thanks. I went back to it last night, apparently I wasn't lubing the inside of the case enough. I was afraid to lube it too much. Things are fine now. Thanks again. Chain