What did you do in the reloading room today?

[Grant H.]

Well, I took that advice and ran a few hundred rounds of mixed brass through the wet tumbler for a couple of hours without the pins.

They came out way cleaner than I would have imagined.

Now they?re ready to be sized and deprimed then maybe they?ll make a trip back into the tumbler with the pins for a good cleaning inside and out before they get loaded.

Looks good! Did you run lemi-shine in this run as well? Or just the dawn?

Especially for rifle cases, I like the second tumble with pins/chips so that there is no lube left on them for loading. Zero risk of primer/powder contamination that way.

[ray1970]

Looks good! Did you run lemi-shine in this run as well? Or just the dawn?

A generous squirt of dish soap and a little squirt of lime juice. That?s pretty much what I normally do.

I haven?t looked inside of the rifle cartridges but the handgun brass is super clean, even on the inside.

They?ll probably still get washed with the pins just so I can get squeaky clean primer pockets.