found some .45 ACP Pistol Brass

[clemsonfor]

They also make corn cob media i saw some guy on you tube post about. But i personally stumbled across it browsing on amazon and reaing the reviews as one of the ones they show u as a preview was a guy talking about tumbleing brass so i read about 10 more all about brass!!!

 

[Soundguy]

Have come across a dozen or more of those in 9mm. I forget what there are but they seem to be nato headstamped and dated, i gues euro stuff? I derime and resize them then notice the holes i guess so i guess i poked a hole in the bottom? I ll have to pull some out of the just brass jug and look. I know i noticed them when i was handeling them after resize so the primer must have been removed?

i've seen aluminum cases with 3 flash holes. ie.. loks like it would take berdan holes or the boxer.

what i've also seen peole do is drill out a boxer hole and relaod berdan brass. could be they then left it on the range?

 

[Soundguy]

. It is more of a cursory inspection. It has worked for me for a lot of years, with very little problems.

James K0uA

i thinkt he big point is if you bring home range brass.. sort it and inspect it then.

I keep all my brass in batches. i don't mix. that's how i keep track of # of cycle times. IE.. i have baggies of 50 or 100 brass and will keep them seperate for life.. same in al my calibers. I usually have 2-300 brass of any caliber i shoot sorted and cleaned, and bagged, perhaps even have a bag primed and ready to go. excpetion would be seldom used calibers.. or odd stuff that i simply don't have brass built up.. yet.

for instance. spp 45acp. if i pick it up at the range.. it goes in a special bag.. so it does not mix with lpp 45acp i have.

 

[Soundguy]

anyone use white rice? i add it to my corb cob media. also have some walnut and wheat media. I mix my own. soemtiems add nufinish polish in.. sometimes not.

white rice goes a long way to extend media on the cheap.


if i get dirty range brass.. I'll tumble it in all white rice first then toss the rice. 25# bag is cheap.. so i keep a 5g bucket full on hand.

 

[clemsonfor]

Heard of adding rice not tried it.

Saw a guy online who added a cup or so of BB' s to his and said it looked good?? It looked good but no better than mine?

 

[clemsonfor]

Since I am as all time single stage loader I got the small " smart reloader" tumbler from sportsman's guide for like $25. It takes maybe 3 red solo cups of media to fill it. The capacity is listed at 300 , 9 mm, and 115 pieces of 223 brass. U can put a bit more than that it just do sent move it around as fast.

 

[Soundguy]

Since I am as all time single stage loader I got the small " smart reloader" tumbler from sportsman's guide for like $25. It takes maybe 3 red solo cups of media to fill it. The capacity is listed at 300 , 9 mm, and 115 pieces of 223 brass. U can put a bit more than that it just do sent move it around as fast.

i went with a vibro tumbler. pot is is 5# size. they make a 10' pot too.. the smaller is fine for me. it will do 100 3006 at a time with room to spare..

 

[clemsonfor]

wow sending this from my phone really reads even worse than i normally post!!

 

[charlz]

I bought "zilla" brand walnut shell reptile bed media off amazon a few weeks back. IT was like $20 shipped to home and i have like 20lbs of the stuff, its about the size of a fertilizer bag!! Funny thing is like 90% of the review on amazon were for it as a tumble media!!

Now it works! Its finer than normal walnut shells but thats a good thing as it does not get stuck in your primer holes!!! It also is dusty. ( the Nu finish cuts the dust to nothing, see next comment) But if you put some of the "NU finish" car liquid polish for cars in there with it it will get as shiny as new brass. Now i see why amazon recomended it as a thing people often bought with the zilla. There is plenty of youtube vids saying to go to the pet shop to get your tumble media its way cheaper adn i think my brass is better looking than a guy who tumbled some i had and used real tumble walnut shells and some maybe polish.

Yep, I use the exact same stuff and the Nu-Finish. Was recommended on a local shooting board. I found an old Dillon 2000 vibratory tumbler at a garage sale marked for $10..... guy offered to sell it to me for $5 so it came home with me or course it would have came home with me at $10 as well Nice to be able to dump in 2000 9mm, turn it on and come back a few hours later.

The brass does come out looking good. Wet tumbling with the stainless steel media in a rock tumbler makes prettier looking brass but it is a much slower process.... less brass at a time and twice as long then you have to rinse and dry it etc.

 

[charlz]

Wet tumbling with the stainless steel media in a rock tumbler makes prettier looking brass but it is a much slower process.... less brass at a time and twice as long then you have to rinse and dry it etc.

I should clarify that I am not using the larger Thumlers Model B which is mainly being pushed for this application. I found an old Model A at an estate sale for $15, the kind that takes paint cans. I guess one of the downsides to this model was the noise from the rocks hitting the metal cans. These days paint cans are plastic so I chucked two up in the lathe to remove the 'ears' where the handle connects. One is the main can and the other was given some 'ripples' with a heat gun and is used as an insert in the main can. The ripples pick the brass up and dump it back down... otherwise it would just slide along the bottom. I did this to cheaply see if stainless steel media is that much better. I can do about 100 9mm brass with 2 pounds of media. Although even with the B model you can only do about 230 pieces.

The big 40lb tumbler they sell for like $700 can handle about the same capacity as my Dillon 2000. If I could figure out how to make an octagon rubber liner for it I would probably just build one. The barrel liner itself sells for $210. Buying one and building my own tumbler would be cheaper but that is a lot to pay for a piece of rubber.