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Decapped my 1x fired brass. I’m using an old “The Precision Reloader” press and a Lee universal decapping die. Depriming brass is dirty and leaves carbon debris on the press (I’ll post a picture below). I’d rather not have an abrasive like that getting caught up in the ram of my nice press so I keep dirty work on my The Precision. Next step is cleaning the brass. I know some f-class shooters don’t but I’m not introducing variables/new practices while I’m working up a load.

What are your thoughts on depriming and cleaning, especially for hunting and precision?

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Boatface 1y ago

That’s just from less than 60 cases.

424ad77e... 1y ago

Yes on separate deprime.

Dry media tumbling is a slightly less annoying process, but never in an enclosed space due to lead dust potential.

Wet tumbling requires you to be extra diligent to ensure there are no pins in the primer pockets.

I find myself just wet tumbling prior to depriming and not worrying about dirty primer pockets.

Boatface 1y ago

Right on! For high volume loading I think that makes lots of sense. For precision-type loads with this many steps I figure I will find the pins. I also use the tumbling chips I heard about from Jerry Miculek. They seem to come out well.

Bill Cypher 1y ago

Deprime on a separate single stage loader, clean wet with steel pins, load on multi stage or single stage depending on load and purpose for the round.

I like to use the handheld lee press to deprime while watching TV. Bench mount single stage press for precision round loading. Auto indexer for steel plate handgun rounds.