Those of you who tumble or vibrate your brass.

[AB]

I have a nice primer pocket swager. I will remove the crimp rather than risk the crushed primer.

[NJC]

man.. this reloading deal is starting to sound like hard work...

[AB]

Nah. I still come out way ahead when I plug my OT rate into the time I spend reloading plus materials.

[mapper]

I'll just look at cases...if nato cross I'll plan to de crimp it..
Most of the commercial brass has not been an issue...

Mostly I load 120 gr hardcast over 3.8 to 4.0 gr of bullseye.. in 9 mm as it is a cheap target load.

[NJC]

Nah. I still come out way ahead when I plug my OT rate into the time I spend reloading plus materials.

Ha

If I earned YOUR overtime rate, I would not be looking at reloading ;-)

[seadog]

Whatever you do, watch out for IMI brass in .556 . They have a bright red primer seal and break decaping pins at will.

[Rumbler]

Those of you who load 9mm.

Do you check and remove the crimp on 9mm brass, or do you just hope for the best?

Wait. Save 9mm brass? Doesn't it take like 10 or 15 of them to make one real pistol case? Hardly seems worthwhile . . . I usually just pick up a handful of those fat soda straws from McDonalds and snip them into short sections . . . .


just teasing.

Because virtually all the brass we get is range pickup it always has dirt/pebbles/junk in it. If it has rained since the last pickup, it is far worse.

We built a 1/4x1/4 hardware cloth bottomed tilt table. It is a couple of feet wide and about three feet long. All the nasty brass gets dumped on there, "tilted" back and forth several times, and then if necessary washed right there on the table with a garden hose and spray nozzle.

If it has to be washed, then every couple of hours (or whenever we get the opportunity) the table will get a few more minutes of "tilting" which turns all the brass over, this is repeated until no more water drops are visible on the cement under the tilt table. Depending on the weather (the table is outside in the sun) it can take a couple of hours to a day or two to dry. THEN it goes into the vibratory tumbler until it looks like new gold.

I know; that sounds like a lot of work. And I guess it would be if we didn't process five gallon buckets full of brass at a time it would not work out as time effective. The tumbler. It will only hold a thousand or so 9mm at a time. Getting all the brass through the tumbler actually takes a lot longer than getting it ready to tumble even if it had to be washed first.

[Cattle/Horses]

Mike, Many years ago I was in Wyoming and went by Black hills with a friend. It was before the Black hills breakup. They actually had a couple of electric cement mixers they used for tumblers. Enormous capacity. Might checkout what Harbor Freight has.

[Rumbler]

Mike, Many years ago I was in Wyoming and went by Black hills with a friend. It was before the Black hills breakup. They actually had a couple of electric cement mixers they used for tumblers. Enormous capacity. Might checkout what Harbor Freight has.

JD and I have spoken about that several times. He agreed to get me one, but the poor guy is so busy with me sidelined I really don't think he gets time to eat lunch.

[Cattle/Horses]

If you want to REALLY get into it we can find you one of these.