I've been trying some different powders.
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You laugh, but that will work. I've been using ultrasonics for years and the brass doesn't always come out as shiny as dry tumblers, but it's clean and it shoots. The magic is dawn and lemishine.
Those two along with boiling water in a cheap harbor Freight rock tumbler and NO pins does wonders and is cheap. No pins to lose, sort, filter, or buy.
That bright shiny brass that comes from wet tumbling is harder to reload than the not so shiny brass that comes from my vibrating tumblers.
Because perfectly clean brass grabs the heck out of your dies. Go size a handful of super clean brass versus picked up OF brass with no cleaning. OF uncleaned will be easier to size and will not exhibit any sticking. Same with crimping, go put a real crimp on some super clean, ie like new brass, and a few hundred in your die will be sticking and you will have a beautiful brass ring to remove from your die. There will be a nice pop every piece as it struggles to release from your die.
Carbon acts like a lubricant, remove it and things get sticky quick. Maybe you won't see it if you run 100 pieces but run a few thousand and you notice real quick.
I always resize prior to cleaning. I did it because I like my loaded ammo to not have scratches on it, nice and shiny. Funny, yesterday I introduced a friend to reloading and he had polished his brass before resizing. It was harder to resize those rifle brass than what I usually encounter.
So many possibilities, so many choices. I think I'm leaning towards the 'benchrest' method.I like trying new techniques so for my 6BR I used a benchrest method. I clean out the primer pocket, wipe down the outside with a rag and Balistol, and size without the expander. Then I wipe it with a dry rag and run a brush though the neck before running a mandrel to expand. Ready to load!
It works great for the low volume shooting I do with that single-shot.
Good info. I was mostly wanting something bigger. I have the small FA tumbler now and I only do about 200 223 at a time. Maybe 500 9mm at a time. Then there's all the sifting and dust. I figured the wet tumbler might be a little easier and no dust. I'm not worried about drying or draining if I can do more at once and do them in less time. Maybe I'll have to look into a quick dry tumble before sizing and then wet tumbler after to get rid of the lube and clean them up better.
I've seen a couple people on Facebook talking about tumbling without pins, just soap and water. I've also seen some posts about using steel chips instead of pins. Anyone have input on either of those options?
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Hornaby?)Where did you find those Hornaby bullets? Google keeps trying to correct me.
A cement mixer works great for tumbling brass, kinda noisy, but works. Walnut hulls, a couple of ounces of chrome polish thinned with gas. Sure makes it pretty.
On another subject. I have an RCBS 9mm carbide die and decapper. The pin in the decapper is marginally long enough to decap abt 90%. The other 10% needs a longer decapping pin I adjust it down long enough to push the primer out the next case the pin holder bottoms on the case. Kinda knocks a hole in reloading speed. Thinking seriously about a different brand of die.
Never heard of this before. I have done at least 6k on the 9mm Lee die. Only problem I've ever had was my arm getting tired.A cement mixer works great for tumbling brass, kinda noisy, but works. Walnut hulls, a couple of ounces of chrome polish thinned with gas. Sure makes it pretty.
On another subject. I have an RCBS 9mm carbide die and decapper. The pin in the decapper is marginally long enough to decap abt 90%. The other 10% needs a longer decapping pin I adjust it down long enough to push the primer out the next case the pin holder bottoms on the case. Kinda knocks a hole in reloading speed. Thinking seriously about a different brand of die.
Magnum primers for 38 Special? It doesn't hurt anything but is unnecessary.Made 51 rds of 38 special.
148 gr HBWC over 2.7 gr of titegroup.
Might need to re-up on small magnum primers soon. Never had much on hand since I rarely do this.
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Magnum primers for 38 Special? It doesn't hurt anything but is unnecessary.
May be easier to find though.
I always use standard primers.