Cleaning brass for progressive press

[Sam1911]

I'm using my dillon for pistol reloading. I'm not concerned about how clean the brass. More looking for opinions of people in my situation. Does anyone just shoot, then use dirty brass with the dillon? Just hate having a progressive press but then basically got to use it in single stage to deprime then wash dry and then finally use it in progressive mode

Probably worth it to buy an inexpensive dry tumbler so you can process the brass that you'll run through the progressive. Not much point to interrupting a progressive loading process just so you can use a more complicated wet brass cleaning process.

Dirty primer pockets are no issue. That's the equivalent of worrying that you look like crap in your tuxedo because you didn't take the time to pick out your belly-button lint.

Forget it and don't let it trouble your mind again.

 

[carbine85]

I'm finding the fastest and easiest way to clean brass is to just drop in a solution of Simple Green, walk away and let it soak for 1-2 hours. After I resize the brass I tumble the lube off of it. The brass always looks pretty good but I don't need a pretty shine to dirty up from shooting.
This process also cleans the inside of the case.

 

[rogerstg]

For pistol, I do not deprime before tumbling. I don't trim pistol brass nor worry about cleaning primer pockets. After tumbling and inspecting the brass, everything else gets done in one lap around my progressive press. Resize/deprime, reprime, flare, charge, seat and crimp.

Add me to the list that agree with this. My pistols don't care how shiny the brass is.