Grandpa Shooter
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Typically I always use my vibratory cleaner to clean up pistol brass after sorting it before bagging it for storage. Since I don't (haven't in the past) load a lot of rifle, I just dump it in with the others I have collected and figured I would get around to cleaning it someday.
Well someday has arrived. I have been depriming and sizing all of my rifle brass this past week and have noticed something unusual. On the rare occasions when I did tumble rifle brass it still stayed pretty dull looking. Now that I am lubing it, depriming it, and tumbling it, it seems to be coming out super clean and shiny.
I am using medium ground walnut, and using Dillon case lube. How could that account for the difference? I am tumbling just long enough to take off the lube residue, not hours.
Anybody?
Well someday has arrived. I have been depriming and sizing all of my rifle brass this past week and have noticed something unusual. On the rare occasions when I did tumble rifle brass it still stayed pretty dull looking. Now that I am lubing it, depriming it, and tumbling it, it seems to be coming out super clean and shiny.
I am using medium ground walnut, and using Dillon case lube. How could that account for the difference? I am tumbling just long enough to take off the lube residue, not hours.
Anybody?