Hmm, pics you say?
Why not have clean, shiny cases? Those who say my ammo LOOKS used are saying they don't want to bother with tumbling. Fine, they'd rather be loading and shooting, more power to them!
BUT they can't prove it to me that their "dirty" brass ISN'T hurting their rifle/handgun chamber. Or that unseen debris inside the case doesn't do anything to the barrel.
Those cases in the pics were tumbled in corn cob with flitz tumbler polish added, about 3 hours. I have since switched to FA tumbler polish additive, it's much cheaper and does the same job.
After listening to numerous posts here and on other boards, I bought some zilla walnut media from petsmart. What crap!
Even after 6 hours, the brass was dull and still looked dirty/dusty. I dumped it, put it in corn with FA polish, bling was back!
Picking up brass fired in my 40 at a ipsc match, someone remarked, "geeze you always shoot new brass"! Nope, it's just tumbled bright often fired reloads. Okay, how do I get mine to look like that?