I started reloading my milk jug of range brass in .308 Win, next will be the 2 jugs of 223 mil / commercial brass.
I tumbled the .308 brass to get the crud out or off of it before cutting to 1.990 length -- yes I know that's 0.015" too short, but its my brass
. After trimming, I set up my .308 neck size die to decap primers and resize about 0.040" at the top of the neck. That knocks off the inside and outside burrs without a chamfer tool.
Now I go to my drill press set up with a Lee 2-edge chamfer tool mounted on a 1/2" OD rubber mandrel (small sanding drums from a Dremel tool). The drill press is set for the slowest speed to deburr primer pocket crimps and just a touch on neck ID to remove square edge.
Next step is the RCBS Small base X-Die for full length resizing. A lot of my "new" brass is military surplus ammo fired from M1-A1 range rental rifles. Normal full length resized brass won't fit case gage or chamber in my custom barreled Remington 700.
The primary purpose of the X-die is to limit case length growth during subsequent resizings. Trim the brass short once and it is good for another 6 to 8 reloadings without trimming.
My brass is now trimmed, deprimed, full-length resized, and covered with nasty home made case lube. Throw the brass in the Thumler's vibratory tumbler with corn cob media, 3 cups of ceramic tumbling stones, and 1 cup of odorless mineral spirits. After an hour, I have all the case lube removed, but the brass is matte finish -- clean but no gleam to be seen.
This is where I sinned and broke Rule #3. I separated media, ceramic stones, and brass. Then the brass was tossed into 2 Midway tumblers with dryer sheet cleaned media, 2 tablespoons of Midway tumbler polish, and given a mirror-like shine to rival any surgically cleaned brass.
Rule3 please forgive me of my vibratory tumbling sins
! ! After all that brass prep work, I wasn't satisfied with clean brass, it HAD TO BE POLISHED AND SHINY. Oh the shame. Now off to the Dillon 550 for 'Close Enough' Match blasting ammo. 
I tumbled the .308 brass to get the crud out or off of it before cutting to 1.990 length -- yes I know that's 0.015" too short, but its my brass
. After trimming, I set up my .308 neck size die to decap primers and resize about 0.040" at the top of the neck. That knocks off the inside and outside burrs without a chamfer tool.Now I go to my drill press set up with a Lee 2-edge chamfer tool mounted on a 1/2" OD rubber mandrel (small sanding drums from a Dremel tool). The drill press is set for the slowest speed to deburr primer pocket crimps and just a touch on neck ID to remove square edge.
Next step is the RCBS Small base X-Die for full length resizing. A lot of my "new" brass is military surplus ammo fired from M1-A1 range rental rifles. Normal full length resized brass won't fit case gage or chamber in my custom barreled Remington 700.
The primary purpose of the X-die is to limit case length growth during subsequent resizings. Trim the brass short once and it is good for another 6 to 8 reloadings without trimming.
My brass is now trimmed, deprimed, full-length resized, and covered with nasty home made case lube. Throw the brass in the Thumler's vibratory tumbler with corn cob media, 3 cups of ceramic tumbling stones, and 1 cup of odorless mineral spirits. After an hour, I have all the case lube removed, but the brass is matte finish -- clean but no gleam to be seen.
This is where I sinned and broke Rule #3. I separated media, ceramic stones, and brass. Then the brass was tossed into 2 Midway tumblers with dryer sheet cleaned media, 2 tablespoons of Midway tumbler polish, and given a mirror-like shine to rival any surgically cleaned brass.
Rule3 please forgive me of my vibratory tumbling sins
! ! After all that brass prep work, I wasn't satisfied with clean brass, it HAD TO BE POLISHED AND SHINY. Oh the shame. Now off to the Dillon 550 for 'Close Enough' Match blasting ammo.
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Obviously no sloth after all that work lol. 
