Tumbling Brass

[jandmtv]

It wasn't a joke.
I'm challenging anyone to come up with legitimate reasons that brass needs to be more polished than in my picture.
Everyone claims that corn cob is better, so back it up with logical arguement...

Randall, corn cob is better at polishing brass, it gives it a better shine. Does that mirror finish do any good? probably not! But you cant argue that corn cob shines the brass better than walnut.

But... your argument of "why does brass need to be polished more than this?" is a valid one, and the answer is, it doesnt.

For me, I started out with corn cob, I tried walnut, then went back to corn cob. The reason? I like being able to tell when the media is dirty enough to be changed, Oh ya, and it gets my brass really shiny!!!

[Synergy]

Randall, corn cob is better at polishing brass, it gives it a better shine. Does that mirror finish do any good? probably not! But you cant argue that corn cob shines the brass better than walnut.

But... your argument of "why does brass need to be polished more than this?" is a valid one, and the answer is, it doesnt.

For me, I started out with corn cob, I tried walnut, then went back to corn cob. The reason? I like being able to tell when the media is dirty enough to be changed, Oh ya, and it gets my brass really shiny!!!

My brass gets really shiny with rice. Rice just doesnt work well with narrow necks like 223. Walnut or Rice with Wicked is my cleaning method. Wicked has zero ammonia.

Wicked

[CamW]

Check out Berry Bullets Brass Polish, its the same stuff as Dillon's with out the blue dye,and a lot cheaper too.Prices include shipping.I usually order a case of quarts (6 bottles) and split it with a few other shooters.

http://www.berrysmfg.com/86.php

[shonc99]

It wasn't a joke.
I'm challenging anyone to come up with legitimate reasons that brass needs to be more polished than in my picture.
Everyone claims that corn cob is better, so back it up with logical arguement...

I agree with you that the brass doesn't need to be shiney. The brighter the brass, the more of the oxidized outer layer you have removed. Ultimately, the brass would get unecessarily weaker with each reloading cycle.

I had always thought of walnut for polishing and corn cob for cleaning. I purchased a few punds of walnut treated with rouge and while the brass was clean, all of the brass was covered a fine dust coating. I figured it might have been the rouge, but I still had the same result with untreated walnut. My guess is that the walnut shell has more natural oils in it which make it more gritty.

I prefer corn cob as I can see when it is dirty and all I use for a cleaner is paint thinner. Cheap and cleans very well.

[jandmtv]

Check out Berry Bullets Brass Polish, its the same stuff as Dillon's with out the blue dye,and a lot cheaper too.Prices include shipping.I usually order a case of quarts (6 bottles) and split it with a few other shooters.

http://www.berrysmfg.com/86.php

I picked up a bottle of Berrys polish at the local gun show, and thats what im currently using. Works very well.

[CGT80]

Hi guys. This is my first post on CalGuns. This is a great forum.

For polishing brass i use corn cob overnight and then walnut for a few hours. The corn cob seems to be coarse (it is a pain to get all of it out of .223's), and I use Lyman re-activator and polish in it. The shells come out with a slight film on them. I think this is because I used too much polish and the media is old. The walnut seems very fine and cleans the film right off the brass. It also drains from the .223's very easily. Old nasty brass looks better than new when finished.

I found out last time I was at the range, my shiny brass was easy to sort out from the old stuff laying on the ground. I would normally pick up any caliber that I shoot but the range masters insisted that we pick up only our brass.