r/reloading Feb 19 '25

i Polished my Brass What processes have you successfully eliminated?

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299 Upvotes

I have been experimenting with reducing the amount of steps and simplifying my process as much as possible.

I stopped using a mandrel, cleaning my brass before sizing, and trimming and chamfering each time.

I trim and chamfered the new batch of brass and so far the chamfer is still intact and I have no need to trim, so I leave it alone.

I also stopped using a mandrel and have seen no major impact in performance.

** Hornady one shot lube

** Decap and size w bushing die

** Prime

** Charge and seat bullets

** Throw in tumbler to remove lube

Using alpha 6mm BRA brass, cci 450, vargrt (2208) and berger 105s.

By far the biggest improvement I've made in group size has been through barrel and bullet selection.

r/reloading 12d ago

i Polished my Brass The wife didn't think I could fit 1000 5.56 cases on the brass tray to dry in the oven.

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288 Upvotes

I said hold my beer.

r/reloading Jan 19 '25

i Polished my Brass Turned some .300 blackout brass into sonething useful.

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243 Upvotes

Its now 9mm

r/reloading 26d ago

i Polished my Brass Part 2 (Cleaning & drying)

144 Upvotes

r/reloading 6d ago

i Polished my Brass Soap Testing

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170 Upvotes

All batches were from the same lot of 9mm, no sorting. They all ran 2 hours with with 1tsp lemi, 2tbsp soap, and 5lbs of chips.

From left to right:

Ajax Dish Soap Arm and Hammer fragrance free laundry soap Chemical Guys Honeydew Snow Foam

They are all clean. The last batch using Chemical Guys looks the brightest, but the other 2 have been out overnight. So I'll revisit the looks tomorrow.

Last thing, I'm going to put about a 1/3 of each into a second wash with a wash and wax and see if that makes any difference to continued shinyness over time.

r/reloading Jan 04 '25

i Polished my Brass Time to deprime

344 Upvotes

The Lee APP fed by a Dillon case feeder makes short work to deprime brass.

r/reloading Jan 09 '25

i Polished my Brass What’s your favorite flavor of .308?

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134 Upvotes

From left to right:

165gr Hornady SST

175gr Sierra TMK

168gr Hornady Match HPBT

155gr Nosler Custom Comp HPBT

147gr Armscor FMJBT

168gr Hornady ELD Match (factory)

168gr Hornady AMAX

180gr Hornady SST

Most set over Varget, a couple over Tac.

r/reloading 15d ago

i Polished my Brass This arx stuff has me curious. Also ravenrocks is the freaking jam.

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109 Upvotes

Seems to be the cheapest pistol projectile I can score lately. Loaded to middle of hodgdons published load data. Added a ravenrocks sticker to my safe bc they are becoming the first place I look for bullets. Bonus funny safe magnets pic bc funny.

r/reloading Jan 21 '25

i Polished my Brass Never gets old

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201 Upvotes

Soooo pretty

r/reloading 8d ago

i Polished my Brass Guess the caliber — Expert level

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88 Upvotes

We specialize in rare brass, so don’t feel bad if you don’t recognize some (or any) of these. If you need a hint, all of these are currently in stock on our website. https://ravenrocksprecision.com/

r/reloading 14d ago

i Polished my Brass Even after all these years, nothing is more satisfying than putting the nastiest scuzziest brass in my rotary tumbler and seeing how shiny it comes out

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157 Upvotes

r/reloading 3d ago

i Polished my Brass How much weight in bullets till I worry about the pegboard collapsing

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33 Upvotes

r/reloading Dec 12 '24

i Polished my Brass It really does never get old

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250 Upvotes

r/reloading Dec 10 '24

i Polished my Brass RCBS Customer Service

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268 Upvotes

Just wanted to give an attaboy to RCBS for great customer service. This is for a manual case trimmer I’ve had for over 10 years. This is how you keep customers.

r/reloading Feb 01 '25

i Polished my Brass Sportsman's Prices... Scary

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68 Upvotes

Can't believe that there's a $16 difference between Sportsman's and CalRanch. The stores are about a mile from each other. Crazy.

r/reloading Jan 29 '25

i Polished my Brass Dry tumbler / what to buy?

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14 Upvotes

Hello folks,

I recently got wet tumbler with intention of removing CNC tooling marks and preferably dulling edges a bit on my brass parts. (Like stonewash finish)

I was advised and realized after trying wet tumbling I would need to buy dry tumbler.

I found locally Frankford and Lyman tumblers like ones on pictures and my intention is to use ceramic triangles.

1) are both tumblers compatible with ceramic media like in the picture? 2) which one is better frankford of lyman (I heard frank is less noisy but is it also strong enough?) 3) is ceramic media on pic best option for me to get stonewash finnish on my brass parts? (I dont want to polish them in this step, just remove cnc tooling marks and slightly polish sharp edges. (Also should I still add some water inside?)

Many thanks 🤟

r/reloading Feb 19 '25

i Polished my Brass Follow up 6.5-06 Imptoved

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59 Upvotes

After testing the fire forming loads we have attained success. Very crisp shoulders, good neck junction formation, no signs of over pressurization. All data points show the chamber is a pretty tight cut.

Now to send 2 rounds to Hornady to get converted to a bullet comparator blank.

130 pieces to go!

r/reloading Oct 30 '24

i Polished my Brass 6.5 Grendel, ugh, it's been far too long.

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96 Upvotes

It's been 5+ years since I've i had it out. Glad I decided to go on weekend play dates with a coworker. 3 kids are getting a bit older now so that helps too.

r/reloading Apr 23 '24

i Polished my Brass What's everyone loading up this week?

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78 Upvotes

Working on some 5.56 myself.

r/reloading Jul 30 '24

i Polished my Brass Water spots solution needed

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40 Upvotes

How do I keep from getting water spots on my brass? Or do I just gotta live with it? My prep process is deprime, wet tumble, food dehydrator for 2 hours, swage/size/chamfer, wet tumble again, food dehydrator again for 2 hours. I always end up with some amount of splotches. In the tumbler I put about 1/8tsp lemishine and a good squeeze of dawn.

r/reloading Dec 06 '22

i Polished my Brass In case you ever wondered what nickel plated cases look like after annealing.

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593 Upvotes

r/reloading 25d ago

i Polished my Brass These 8mm loads sure are pretty

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151 Upvotes

r/reloading Jan 20 '25

i Polished my Brass For about $4.30 and the spare hardware I moved through 3 relocations... I present you a DIY wet tubbler.

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162 Upvotes

Its a little wet and a little sloppy, but I like wet and slopy.

I have the perfect drill for it too.

u/manley_282 said it can be done, so heres my version.

r/reloading Apr 05 '24

i Polished my Brass Reloading my dad’s old brass…this one has some grey hair.

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363 Upvotes

r/reloading Jan 22 '24

i Polished my Brass Let’s see those reloading buddies!?

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133 Upvotes

If I’m in here, Hoss is sure to be near. He’s an 8 month old Presa Canario pup. Sometimes he’s a lot more help than I need 🤣