That WAS really good. Thankfully, I'd swallowed my coffee already. Harmonic boom. Geeze.
Cleaning is a "feel good" sort of deal. If it bothers you, do it. If not, don't.
I'd decided the only time I'll clean pockets is if they are getting too gross, (like once every five years) and what I do there is mix up a wet batch with first some kind of industrial solvent and some fine steel shot I got somewhere a long time ago.
The decapped cases go in the soup for a couple hours. Then I pour off the solvent and go for a couple of spins in hot Dawn for about an hour a pop. One more hot rinse spin and then the cases go in the warm oven, and finally, a dry tumble in media. I pour out the liquids through a screen coffee filter at each point, that captures the vast majority of the shot for use later. It's about two cupfuls, and I've not lost much, if any.
That's less of a pain than hand-cleaning the pockets, but it's such a pain, I only do it on certain big batches of brass I shoot quite a lot.
I clean a primer pocket with a twist of a carbide cutter. No big fuss.
