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Campfire Oracle
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No- -it's like wiping your ass before pulling up your pants. Lots of neck bushings in sizer dies aren't that hard, and get scored easily. Lots of chambers and reloads have close tolerances, and not wondering if the fit is tight because your die is set up wrong, or if you still have too much gunk on your brass makes ckleaning before reloading a perfect time to do it If you say so, but it's a waste of time.
"Dear Lord, save me from Your followers"
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Campfire Oracle
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Campfire Oracle
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My routine for the last thirty or so years is to throw all the dirty (fired) brass into the tumbler with a little bit of mineral spirits.
Lube, size and decap and then back into the tumbler for an hour to clean the lube off.
Who wants to see a box of filthy ammo? Who wants to see a box of ammo? It ain't a chick's ass and a bucket full of empties is much better.
"Dear Lord, save me from Your followers"
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Campfire Ranger
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Campfire Ranger
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If they get really bad I'll polish a neck with some steel wool. I gave the tumbler away years ago.
laissez les bons temps rouler
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Campfire Greenhorn
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Clean ammo is like a clean car. Ammo doesn't shoot any better. Car doesn't run any better. I don't drive dirty cars and don't shoot dirty ammo. Just me.
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Campfire Outfitter
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Campfire Outfitter
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I tumble the straight wall cases which are going through carbide dies before sizing. I tumble the bottleneck cases that require lube for sizing after sizing. I've never had tumbling do a good enough job of cleaning primer pockets for that to matter, I always give each case two twist of a pocket brush after they come out of the FL die.
I might change process if I were using a progressive but after upwards of 100K rounds loaded on a single stage, I'm comfortable my current process works for me.
Tom
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