Polishing and depriming

[flyrobb]

Well I'm pretty new to this but I just throw my brass in the dishwasher in the silverware basket Sometimes with primers in, sometimes not. If the brass is a bit dirty i'll wash prior to de-priming to keep crud out of the die. Lay it out to dry and good to go!

Wife doesn't seem to mind and the brass comes out looking pretty darn good. I am going to make a bigger basket to wash more at a time.

 

[mikld]

I read an article a few yeas back where a writer trimmed, cleaned primer pockets, and sorted by headstamp some 45 ACP brass. Another batch was not tumbled, no primer pocket cleaning, no trimming (and no measuring), mixed headtamp brass. All were loaded identically, all at the same time, and shot through his super accurate, "bulleseye" 1911. Posted groups were not different, meaning all the extra preparation had no effect on accuracy.

I'm not saying to skip all brass prep, just do as much as you like. If you just wipe the brass with a rag before reloading, fine, If you trim, swage/uniform primer pockets, debur flash holes, weigh and polish each case, that too is fine...

FWIW only...

 

[fredj338]

I used to do just that when I started shooting 40yrs ago. I would just come home & roll the empties in a wet towel. I didn't get a tumbler for about 5yrs, still have the same one too.
My buddy uses a small cement mixer from HF. He wet/ss pin tumbles like 8k a pop, just once a year per caliber. That I could probably do.

 

[bamacisa]

cleaning brass

I deprime all my fired cases with a universal depriming die. I then put them in the tumbler with either corn or walnut media. When I reload the cases, the sizing die has a depriming rod with a depriming pin that knocks any media stuck in the primer pocket or any that is stuck in the flash hole. It may not help any thing, but that is how I do it.