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Probably a stupid question, a friend gave me a bunch of .223 brass that already has the primers put in, is it safe to tumble/clean .223 brass with the primers all ready in?
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It's safe but not smart as the tumbling media will get stuck in the flashhole and you have no way to remove it with the primer already in short of punching the primer out.
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We forget that tumbling is supposed to clean the grit and carbon off the brass so we don't gum up and wreck our sizing dies and the chamber of our gun. Shiny brass may look nice but it doesn't shoot any better.
Don't tumble.
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It's safe but not smart as the tumbling media will get stuck in the flashhole and you have no way to remove it with the primer already in short of punching the primer out. +1
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We forget that tumbling is supposed to clean the grit and carbon off the brass so we don't gum up and wreck our sizing dies and the chamber of our gun. Shiny brass may look nice but it doesn't shoot any better.
Don't tumble. +1
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If clean is something you must have....de-prime first
The dust and small pcs are not what you want inside the flash hole with no good way to get it out with a primmer in
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Use 000steel wool to shine up the brass
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Media in flash hole: Brother in law, ex Marine armorer, ex Y-12 machinest decided to actually count the teeth in the horses mouth. He deliberately put media, forgot if it was corn or walnut, in the flash holes of a handful of rounds (probably 30-06 knowing him) then primed and loaded. They all went bang. Before that conversation with him I had wondered how on earth a piece of walnut shell small enough to fit in a flash hole could withstand the directional explosion of a modern primer. Turned out it can't, at least the handful he tried.
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