What he said🔝
Not wasting primers, powder, or bullets to condition salvaged brass these days. Actually shooting mostly factory .223 now as the spread in cost between that and reloads has pretty much vanished if you place any value on your time at all.
I've never factored in time spent. It's one of my hobbies and as such doesn't deserve to be time studied/cost analyzed. I had enough of that in my previous professional life.
I don't worry about dents/dings found in brass that cycled through automatic arms. My .223's go to feed a Browning single shot only anymore (the last AR went bye-bye), and I vacillate between LC brass and Lapua brass. The dents will snap out upon the first firing. Of course if you're running them through an autoloader you'll probably inflict more dings on them anyway.
