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. .

 

[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.

I size and decap, wipe down the case and toss it in the tumbler.

JD338

 

[diverdown]

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.

I only decap and stay away from sizing prior to cleaning. My feeling is if you size a dirty case the possibility of scratching the die is present.

 

[TackDriver284]

Last night I took out my rifle decapper die and ran some .38 cases through it for the first time, kept decapped brass in a zip lock for the time being until I try out the 38 with the Holosun and get more fired brass to be decapped. Tumbler should be here soon, can't wait to make some shiny brass to kill the boredom.

 

[xphunter]

I only decap and stay away from sizing prior to cleaning. My feeling is if you size a dirty case the possibility of scratching the die is present.

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