Corn or Walnut? Difference?

[SnWnMe]

A friend hooked me up with a tumbler and some media. It's walnut. What's the difference between walnut and corn as far as application?

 

[Bob C]

The advantage I've found with the walnut media is that the media doesn't get in the primer pockets if you tumble to remove the lubricant after resizing.

It's not that hard to get the corn cob out of the primer pocket, but doing it 60 or 80 times can get a little tedious.

 

[P95Carry]

I'd say it's true yeah ... walnut does not leave primer pockets clogged too much .. corn is not so good for that.

Otherwise .. I regard walnut as ''sharper''..... a tad more ''aggressive'' .... and so use that almost exclusively - in preference to corn. Quicker result.

 

[larryw]

Corn shines the brass better.

Walnut cleans the brass better

Walnut plus a dab of liquid polish makes the brass clean and shiny.

 

[Jeeper]

I just got a bunch of Pecan hulls and I really like it. I had never tried it before but it came with a bunch of used stuff I bought. it really works well. I like walnut better than corn though since it cleans better and quicker.

 

[Vic303]

I find that walnut lasts longer too.

 

[Paul "Fitz" Jones]

Media

Walnut hull and apricot pit media is hard, sharp and abrasive to remove tarnish.

Corn media is soft and with some paint thinner absorbs burnt powder residue from empty brass and excess bullet lube from live ammo. Kerosene added to the Corn cleans and leaves a protective coating to stop oxidation of brass cases and lead bullets in storage.

 

[Matt Dillon]

Kerosene and corn cob media

Paul, I was wondering if you might tell me approximately how much kerosene to add to my corn cob media, as I have a regular Midway type tumbler. How much kerosene to how many pounds of corn cob media? I usually run my shot shells through corn cob, then deprime them and run them through walnut to clean the primer pockets well. Will the corncob/kerosene combination work well for cleaning them prior to de-priming as well?Thanks so much!

 

[FireInTheHole]

The advantage I've found with the walnut media is that the media doesn't get in the primer pockets if you tumble to remove the lubricant after resizing.

Corn is ok for rifle as you are supposed to clean the primer pocket anyways... (at least for semis)

 

[larryw]

Yeah, but there are those of us who prefer to do all the dirty work (resize, trim and clean primer pocket) before we clean the brass prior to reloading.