case cleaning

Just picked up some crushed walnut at the pet store. It's more expensive than princes auto but I was pleased to see virtually NO dust! No dryer strips needed just a cap full of nu finish car polish. 17$ for about 5 pounds though.
 
If your more concerned with accuracy, a major variable to that is neck tension and friction between the bullet and the interior of the neck.

I have very good results with chucking the case in a Lee 3 jaw chuck, rotating the case powered by a drill motor, brush the inside of the case neck with a nylon bore brush. The idea here is to fill the irregularities in the brass, brass isn't smooth as you would think, with the carbon residue. Makes a smooth somewhat slick surface for the bullet to slide on. You will experience lower ES and better accuracy.

When the case is rotating just touch the neck and body with 000 steel wool for a nice shine.

I have a Lyman tumbler and an Ultra-sonic cleaner that haven't been used in a long time for rifle brass.
 
Prairie Plinker said:
I've been using a vibratory tumbler with the same batch of media for well over 10000 pistol rounds and at least a 1000 rifle rounds and there was little dust. I'd say at about the half-way mark some of the media started breaking down, but I tried putting a small piece of a Bounce dryer sheet in with the media and brass for a cycle and low and behold, almost all the small particles and dust where adhered to the sheet. I've only had to do that a couple times so far, haven't even used a single full dryer sheet yet! I'm using that red "tuff-nut" walnut media which seemed to last longer before breaking down compared to the corn based stuff.

With that said, I'll be getting a Frankford Arsenal SS tumbler as soon as I can get a decent deal on one. I like really clean, shiny brass.
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Do you find with the tuffnut that you stain your hands red. and inside case is also dusted red. and if so what do you do about it?
 
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