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Old 03-30-2018, 09:39 PM
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I still use both methods, dry vibratory with the Lyman green media and my FA rotary wet tumbler. The FA definitely cleans out the insides of the cases better and I like it for running range pickup brass as some of that will be very tarnished and full of dirt and grass and stuff. But I recently ran into a problem with wet tumbled 45 ACP brass and my Lee powder thru expander die. The wet tumbling cleaned the brass so well that it was sticking on the downstroke from the Lee expander die. I ended up running them through the expander die without throwing a powder charge into them and using a few drops of Hornady 1 shot on the inside of 1 case out of 20 or so. After belling the cases I then threw all the powder charges and finished them up. I just got into loading 45 ACP and haven't ordered a shellplate kit yet for my Dillon for it and I'm loading on my old single stage press. I figure I will order a shellplate kit in the next few weeks for the Dillon though.
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