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[Dave M.]

I have the larger Frankford Arsenal wet tumbler. I use hot tap water, about half a teaspoon of Lemishine Booster, a cap full of ArmorAll Wash n Wax and a small squirt of Dawn Dish Soap.
Let it run an hour.
Drain & rinse in the drum.
Then fill up the drum again with hot tap water and add a cap full of the ArmorAll Wash n Wax.
Let it run for fifteen minutes.
Drain it and place the brass & pins in a small bucket with warm tap water.
I'll grab some cases in left hand.
Then take two cases and swish them in the warm water with the case mouth facing down to release the stuck pins held in the case by water retention

Then place them on my home made drying racks.
I deprime before tumbling
After they are placed on the drying racks I'll hit them with the air hose to get the excess water off of the cases and any remaining ss pins.
I don't tumble until I get a bunch of dirty brass.

What does this extensive process do for your accuracy? Or winning %?

 

[Matt_3479]

Not sure why people spend so much time, effort and money trying to make their brass shiny and new when it has now effect on accuracy (and some will argue it can have a negative effect). I RARELY put any brass in my Lyman vibe bowl, and never tumble any brass. On the rare occasions when I do put brass in the vibe bowl, I use lizard bedding (finely crushed walnut shells available in 10lb bags at most pet stores for about $7) with a SINGLE large drop of turtle wax chrome polish & rust remover. The brass comes out very shiny each piece requires emptying residual material and I use a tiny needle blower hooked to an air line to blow the brass out through the primer hole.
Personally, none of my competition brass ever goes in the vibe bowl. There is far too many world class shooters that never clean their brass, and my own results have proved to me this is a highly overrated step in highly and just isn’t conducive to being able to achieve maximum accuracy.
I’m sure there will be 1-2 examples of world champions and fantastic shooters from multiple disciplines that have proven they are extremely successful while at the same time they are cleaning brass; but these shooters will likely be anomalies, as opposed to the norm.
Dave

I think where some people get confused or fixed on cleaning so deeply is most readings will tell you to clean before annealing and clean before sizing so you don’t dirty up your dies and get inconsistent annealing. I’m not saying you have to clean, but almost say you “need to” but weather you give them a quick wipe or throw it in a tumbler I don’t see a big difference