Been reading up on Lead Styphnate . Guess it's my good schnauz, but I taste metal when handing fired brass. Same experience when I handle uncoated paper clips and the like.
So lead styphnate from primers condenses on the brass. You throw the fired brass in a tumbler and tada, lead contamination. Makes since this was where one dude's problem lay, hearsay regardless. Also mentioned in the sticky lead thread here.
So how do you guys approach this? Dryer sheets? Or you don't worry about it? I see plenty of talk in the stick thread, but no one brought this up when I first started the ball rolling on getting into reloading.
Apparently Lead Styphnate doesn't dissolve particularly well in water, but apparently will in a sodium carbonate solution. I'm thinking about keeping a bucket of this with me when I go shooting, and any brass I pick up being put in right off, then just rinsing it off when I get home with a water/vinegar solution. All the reloading I do will be completely indoors, so perhaps that's why I'm really looking into this.
So lead styphnate from primers condenses on the brass. You throw the fired brass in a tumbler and tada, lead contamination. Makes since this was where one dude's problem lay, hearsay regardless. Also mentioned in the sticky lead thread here.
So how do you guys approach this? Dryer sheets? Or you don't worry about it? I see plenty of talk in the stick thread, but no one brought this up when I first started the ball rolling on getting into reloading.
Apparently Lead Styphnate doesn't dissolve particularly well in water, but apparently will in a sodium carbonate solution. I'm thinking about keeping a bucket of this with me when I go shooting, and any brass I pick up being put in right off, then just rinsing it off when I get home with a water/vinegar solution. All the reloading I do will be completely indoors, so perhaps that's why I'm really looking into this.