hpluseleven
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I'm fortunate that I have the opportunity to pick up lots of brass at the range where I shoot. As a result, I have a couple of questions:
1. How do ya'll clean your range pickups? I've tried the lemishine thing I read about on AR-15.com, i've tried soap and water, and I've tried just sorting and tumbling. Which leads me to my next question:
2. I'm tumbling with the walnut shells from petsmart. I didn't have any problems with dust until I started cleaning up this weekend's haul from the range. I've been throwing used dryer sheets in the mix and those pick up a lot of dirt. Maybe I just need to toss another cap of NuFinish in it? Maybe I'll try some mineral spirits - I've read that several of ya'll have had good luck with that. Any other ideas on keeping dust down?
3. When is the media worn out? I went from getting brass really clean and pretty darn shiny to the last batch or 2 came out really dusty and not real clean. Still good, just needs to be cleaned up? Or time to move on to another bag of lizzard litter?
4. pistol brass, I don't care - as long as it's not split, I'll reload it (I just want to punch holes in paper) I'll buy the premium SD ammo.
5. Rifle brass - I think i have a pretty decent idea of what's once fired and what's not. How much do ya'll care when it comes to hunting ammo? Or do you only use once-fired for hunting ammo? How picky do you get? I'm not trying to shoot 1000yd competitions. I want to kill deer (and elk) at normal ranges.
Thanks for your help, yes I did search and read lots of entertaining stories about some of ya'll scrounging for brass just like I do.
1. How do ya'll clean your range pickups? I've tried the lemishine thing I read about on AR-15.com, i've tried soap and water, and I've tried just sorting and tumbling. Which leads me to my next question:
2. I'm tumbling with the walnut shells from petsmart. I didn't have any problems with dust until I started cleaning up this weekend's haul from the range. I've been throwing used dryer sheets in the mix and those pick up a lot of dirt. Maybe I just need to toss another cap of NuFinish in it? Maybe I'll try some mineral spirits - I've read that several of ya'll have had good luck with that. Any other ideas on keeping dust down?
3. When is the media worn out? I went from getting brass really clean and pretty darn shiny to the last batch or 2 came out really dusty and not real clean. Still good, just needs to be cleaned up? Or time to move on to another bag of lizzard litter?
4. pistol brass, I don't care - as long as it's not split, I'll reload it (I just want to punch holes in paper) I'll buy the premium SD ammo.
5. Rifle brass - I think i have a pretty decent idea of what's once fired and what's not. How much do ya'll care when it comes to hunting ammo? Or do you only use once-fired for hunting ammo? How picky do you get? I'm not trying to shoot 1000yd competitions. I want to kill deer (and elk) at normal ranges.
Thanks for your help, yes I did search and read lots of entertaining stories about some of ya'll scrounging for brass just like I do.