Do you deprime pistol brass before wet tumbling?

[TackDriver284]

I have a Frankford Arsenal Lite kit on the way with a dryer. I was wondering if you guys deprime pistol brass especially a large batch before wet tumbling? It's good to keep pockets clean, but some people leave primers in until after wet tumbling. What is your preference?

 

[RL338]

I follow the same practice as rifle brass minus the annealing. I deprime all my brass first.

 

[Guy Miner]

With pistol brass, I tumble it with the spent primers in place. Saves me the trouble of picking out tumbling media afterwards. But I just dry tumble, I'm not doing the wet steel pin thing at this point.

After a batch of 45's, 44's or 38's are done tumbling, I resize and deprime at the same stroke of the ram.

Guy

 

[JD338]

I deprime all my brass before I wet tumble so the primer pockets get cleaned.

JD338

 

[TackDriver284]

I deprime all my brass before I wet tumble so the primer pockets get cleaned.

JD338

Decapper die only or do you size and decap as a step before wet tumbling? I use a decappper die for rifle brass, but never tried it for pistol brass.

 

[RL338]

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This is what I use for decapping most of my brass.

 

[RL338]

I like the spent primers removed before wet tumbling so that the primer pockets get cleaned.

 

[Aggiebanker1991]

I have done it both ways. Typically if I wet tumble, I remove the primers, if I dry tumble, I leave them in. Dry media in the flash holes is a problem. Frankly, I cant tell that cleaning the primer pockets on pistol brass makes much difference. Maybe I am not a good enough shot to know the difference. .