asking advice de-cap/ re-size & then tumble or just tumble

[Reloadron]

This is where you find what works best for you. Me?
I do not pick up range brass so that is out. With that in mind I resize and remove primers, that being a one shot affair. Then I clean the brass and all I use is vibratory tumblers since I had several and they all still run I never had a need to move on. Over the course of a spring, summer and fall all I do is resize and trim. During the winters I tumble and load. That being my general process. Now of course if I am working up a load or experimenting then I load but the same order. My fired brass is generally pretty clean and I do occasionally clean my dies.

How anyone goes about it really depends on their finding out what works for them. See what works for you and run with it.

Ron

 

[Ghost In The Fog]

My wife even makes fun of it because all my junk glitters. She comes into the garage and the lamps are reflecting off the brass and lighting up my eyes like a pirate brooding over a pile of glittering gold and she just laughs.

There is nothing like brass that sparkles!!! Clean is clean but shiny is visually AMAZING. My wife does not make fun of me- she just looks at me weird and laughs, same thing I guess, as I have the brass spread out on the dining room table on a towel fresh from the tumbler longingly running my fingers through it with a smile on my face. Love the pirate analogy. My brass is in the treasure chest, spilled over the sides and I am drunk with pleasure. ROFL.

 

[readyeddy]

Dry media can get stuck in the flash hole and require an hour of frustration. Since that experience I dry tumble first.