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Any good way to clean them up ? Does it matter?
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Bar Keepers Friend. Mix powder in jar with water and agitate. Removes moly from bullets quickly and since it removes rust from stainless doubtful tarnish will stand up to it.
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I've tumbled them in a vibrator with walnut media, but I don't think it really matters.
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Never dull pads from the Auto store if you don't have a tumbler. They help keep the bullets or brass from tarnishing again for awhile.
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I've got a bunch of .30 caliber roundnoses I use in my .3030. They were purchased from another reloader about 40 years ago, and have tarnished a bit. I'm guessing they are 1960s vintage. I just load them and shoot them; they seem to work just fine.
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"I tumble them in a vibrator with walnut media"
Me too. They look nicer
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This. I don't keep ammo around to admire it.
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They get polished just fine going quickly down the bore and I have yet to have a target complain about tarnished bullets😄.... just shoot them unless pretty bullets are important to you.
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If you are talking brown patina, I'd leave it alone. It does no harm at all, and actually is slightly protective.
If you are talking green tarnish, I'd give them a quick bath in lemon juice, rinse in hot water and dry, but more importantly I'd have a good hard look at your storage conditions.
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Swirl them in some water with lemishine.
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I've got a bunch of .30 caliber roundnoses I use in my .3030. They were purchased from another reloader about 40 years ago, and have tarnished a bit. I'm guessing they are 1960s vintage. I just load them and shoot them; they seem to work just fine. WTF you been on a off planet vacation?
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I’ve tumbles some old Remington bronze points for fun with steel pins. Looked like new
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I use the tarnished ones when playing with loads at the range to use them up. The only tarnished ones I get are all from Nosler. Tarnished straight out of a new unopened box.
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I’ve tumbles some old Remington bronze points for fun with steel pins. Looked like new Were they just as explosive polished as unpolished? MB
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I’ve tumbled some old Remington bronze points for fun with steel pins. Looked like new Were they just as explosive polished as unpolished? MB I never shot any of them. They were given to me. I gave them away too.
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I have found that they shoot nice but you better keep them in the ribs on the in and out or a lot of blood shot meat. MB
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Any good way to clean them up ? Does it matter? It only matters if it bothers you.
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Only bronze point I ever put in a deer, 40 years ago, penciled through. Got the deer, but no expansion. Was using them in a .300 Savage, don't think I had enough velocity for them to open up. Used the rest for targets.
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