how clean?

[agroman2001]

How clean do you need to get the inside of your brass before reloading? I've tried a few methods to clean the brass and still the inside doesn't look that clean to me.

[damndave]

The inside of the brass won't get very clean unless you use a Ultrasonic or tumble with SS media.

It doesn't effect performance much if any.

[wtkaiser]

I have never thought about, much less gotten too excited about, the INSIDE of the brass, myself. Of the myriad of things to concern yourself over in our quest for accuracy and reliability, this has to be past the last one on the list. Forget it.

[joelogic]

You need to clean the inside?

[22popnsplat]

Before i started using the stainless media I used a case neck brush for my target ammo . A couple of passes in and out and i felt better about my loads , I cant say for sure that it really does anthing but I think all the little things that by themselves dont seem to matter much add up to a difference

[agroman2001]

Thanks for the answers. I'm new to reloading and just really didnt have any idea if i needed to worry about the inside.

[M27]

Unless you are loading long range precision rifle ammo where case capacity matters it doesn't matter.

I still run everything through stainless just because
1. I try to make the most consistent ammo I can
2. I am am a little OCD
3. I have a stainless tumbler so why not use it

[Fjold]

As long as you can see the primer hole, you're fine.

Seriously though as long as the outside is clean enough to function the inside is clean enough. I probably tumble pistol brass about one out of ten reloads.

Even my match rifle ammunition only gets tumbled about every three reloads.

[Whiterabbit]

what about your African ammo?

[Personmans]

If you use a tumbler, can you go straight from 'dirty' ammo to the resizing step?
Or do you lube them in between?

-- Basically trying to see if you can save time by having the SS tumbler clean your brass for you.

[huckberry668]

If you use a tumbler, can you go straight from 'dirty' ammo to the resizing step?
Or do you lube them in between?

-- Basically trying to see if you can save time by having the SS tumbler clean your brass for you.

straight wall pistol brass with carbide dies, yes.
Lube all bottle neck cases carbide dies or not.

[Personmans]

Got it. Thanks.
I plan to read up on reloading before I even try and get in to it, just curious for now

[Whiterabbit]

If you use a tumbler, can you go straight from 'dirty' ammo to the resizing step?
Or do you lube them in between?

-- Basically trying to see if you can save time by having the SS tumbler clean your brass for you.

I don't use SS, but if I did, I would use my universal decapper to pull them all before the SS bath. Then out of the SS bath and straight to size, prime, charge, etc....

[Sac-AR15]

If I have time I will deprime and then clean using SS. But usually I just load up the SS tumbler for a couple of hrs.