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I know this has been covered a few times. but has anyone ever actually personally had an issue with tumbling live ammo? personally if somebody asked me I would recommend against it but I've got to situation where I'm kind of curious..
and I mean tumbling in Walnut or corn cob in a vibrating tumbler...
my live ammo I mean primed powdered bullet seated everything..
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No, it's not a good idea. But thanks for bringing up this thread. It reminded me I needed to buy some more Tufnut media..
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I would be afraid of turning the power, into taclum power consistency. Thus changing the burn rate. That said I have never attempted !
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Prolly wont hurt a F-ing thing... But, Like Elvis... I'd leave the building... Oh, And one more thing... Didn't Curiosity Kill the Cat?...
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Live ammo is tumbled during the manufacturing process. Cat
scopes are cool, but slings 'n' irons RULE!
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I’ve done it without issue. I wouldn’t tumble it too much but if you don’t get obsessive you should be fine.
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I use a Lyman turbo vibrating tumbler and vibrate all my ammunition after I load it to clean the case lube off. There is absolutely nothing wrong with doing that.
However, I did miss a prairie dog a couple weeks ago, so there may be some truth to the powder degradation from tumbling…
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I’ve done it without issue. I wouldn’t tumble it too much but if you don’t get obsessive you should be fine. what's too much ?
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I use a Lyman turbo vibrating tumbler and vibrate all my ammunition after I load it to clean the case lube off. There is absolutely nothing wrong with doing that.
However, I did miss a prairie dog a couple weeks ago, so there may be some truth to the powder degradation from tumbling… i bet it was a swift anyway with a leupold ... 😁
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Always wondered that myself...but admittedly too much of a chicken$hit to try. I’m the poor ba$tard that something would just have to go wrong during the process!
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There was a test done on another forum that involved quite a period of time spent tumbling live ammo. Periodic disassembly showed no deterioration.
I've done it for a ½ hour to remove lubricant from the cases, chronographing indicated no change.
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Wonder if 1/2 hour in a vibratory cleaner would be worse for it than riding in a truck from a factory in Arkansas or Missouri? Or a ship from Korea or Europe?
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Maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm lucky but I have always done it to clean lube off and make my ammo pretty. Never had a round go off, get damaged or have different velocity/pressure from it. Like was mentioned above the factory does it although I don't know for how long. A couple hours in the vibrator polishes them up nice.
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I’ve done it without issue. I wouldn’t tumble it too much but if you don’t get obsessive you should be fine. what's too much ? I dunno, you tell me. I haven’t gotten obsessive with it so I don’t know where the outer limits are. 😀 I’d imagine you could tumble them until you get to the point that when you squeeze the trigger it sounds like a fart and back off from there. When I’ve “needed” to tumble loaded brass I tumble for several hours and that accomplishes my goal. How long do you need to tumble your brass for?
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Might be a way to explain a major fire at your home to an arson investigator.
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Is that anything like driving down a rough ass road with the ammo rattling around in a box for 2 years?
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All of my ammo that comes from my progressive gets tumbled after loading. I tumble them about an hour'ish in order to get the Hornady 1 shot off of them.
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I use a Lyman turbo vibrating tumbler and vibrate all my ammunition after I load it to clean the case lube off. There is absolutely nothing wrong with doing that.
However, I did miss a prairie dog a couple weeks ago, so there may be some truth to the powder degradation from tumbling… Did you forget the smiley emoji, shrap?
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For the guys tumbling to get the lube off. Why not just wipe it with a rag with some mineral spirits or such on it?
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I’ve done it without issue. I wouldn’t tumble it too much but if you don’t get obsessive you should be fine. what's too much ? Enough to mess with the coating they use to control burn rate.
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