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How many of you clean your primer pockets?

I never do

I clean them on the serious stuff, but not on the high volume stuff.

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This, exactly.

Me too.

Cleaning every primer pocket, every time, since 1962.

Same here. I uniform them before the first loading too. Use a K&M uniformer.

I will never load a round without cleaning the primer pocket first

Tens, if not hundreds of thousands of rounds loaded and never cleaned a single primer pocket with no issues...

For those that don't, do you just throw fired cases into tumbler for cleanup with old primer still in? Then on to deprime and sizing die?

I reload then throw the loaded rounds into the vibrator and clean them loaded...

Sounds like a way to process cases needing only neck size, but for cases being used in semi-auto that require FL sizing shouldn't the case clean-up via tumbling come first? I don't care so much about sparkling clean loads as I do smooth & easy reloading.

The cartridges are clean and the fired cases are clean. Still no issues with full length sizing. If there were problems, I would do something different...

I'm anal......I generally clean them even though I know it isn't necessary. Just me.

Decap and tumble in stainless steel before sizing. Primer pockets get cleaned but not by me. I like shiny cases even though I recognize there likely isn't any real advantage.

Rifle rounds yes, handgun no. The difference is that after lubing and sizing, I toss the rifle cases in the tumbler to remove the lube. After tumbling, I check the flashole for media and it's easy enough to use a small straight blade screwdriver and do a quick twist in the pocket to get the crud out.

No lube on the handgun rounds so no tumbling and no pocket cleaning.

Dale

Never used a tumbler and stopped cleaning pockets a looooooong time ago.



Travis

Action: I do, every time I reload a case!
Just takes a sec.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

I clean my rifle pr. pockets, but not handgun..

+1 for Dale K.