Rocks In Steel Pin Media Hack

Hi All-

During last week's range session, I was picking up my reloaded brass from the range scraps in the dirt in front of the bench, and then I saw that live fire was about 1 minute away. I just started quickly grabbing handfulls of dirt and brass, and throwing it in a ziploc bag. I wet tumbled it all for decapping, and after I dumped the cases out of the tumbler, I noticed the steel pins were full of small granite pebbles. I tried picking them out by hand, it wouldve taken me an hour, if I could even grab them.

So I looked around my garage for a tool I could use.

I gold panned the steel pins about 5 times, and every rock floated to the top, and out of the pan.

The pick with the rocks in the bucket is only about 5% of them.

troy fairweather said:

Don't magnets pick up them pins.[/QUOT

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Good idea. I have pins on my front porch in a little pile that I kicked together, for about 2 weeks now because I have been trying to figurs out an easy way to pick them up, thanks.