cleaning fired brass 101

[Mark611]

This might be over kill for some of you, but I'm kind of OCD when it comes to my brass, I do not dry tumble anymore due to the dust, I wet tumble with SS pins and Dawn dish soap, that's all that's needed, I have a FA large tumbler, I can either clean my brass to look like new or just run it long enough to clean the outside of the brass without removing all of the cardon inside of the neck, I also use the sifter tumbler to remove the SS pins and water after rinsing the brass to remove any leftover soap, I have no stuck pin in the flash holes, I then put my cases in loading blocks that holes that go thru so any water left in cases has a place to drain out, I then use a hand held hair drier on max heat to dry my brass, this takes only a few minutes to dry about 100 cases at a time, I do remove the primers with a Lyman universal de priming die before tumbling, then I start my brass prep again, I anneal my cases, run them thru a Redding body die, then a LEE collet die, trim to length on my Wilson trimmer, chamfer and de burr the case mouth on my Lyman case prep station, I use this method whether it's for a bolt gun or a gas gun! The rest of my loading process is just as meticulous. YMMV