So I just started reloading, .223, and I have a bunch of little questions and comments so I figured I'd just dump them all here.
1. Are little dents in the case ok or should I just toss all imperfect brass?
2. Alot of my cases have a little primer pocket bushing that is not part of the case or the primer. What is this and can it cause problems?
3. I've seen a lot on tumble time and I did a test at 4 hours the brass was pretty shiney at 12 hours it was shinier.. This is with corn cob and polishing compound. Also even after 12 hours the primer pockets are still really dirty. I use the primer cleaner tool, but was hoping it would clean there.
4. I am using a lee classic turret press and my order of operations are:
1. Clean brass with water and soap and rinse and dry
2. Deprime and size
3. Tumble polish cases
4. Measure case length and clean primer pocket
5. Trim long cases
6. Chamfer case mouth and primer pocket
7. Prime, powder, bullet, crimp
However the setup for the auto indexing turret seems to not have steps for any of the cleaning measuring and prepping in between steps 2 and 7.
1. Are little dents in the case ok or should I just toss all imperfect brass?
2. Alot of my cases have a little primer pocket bushing that is not part of the case or the primer. What is this and can it cause problems?
3. I've seen a lot on tumble time and I did a test at 4 hours the brass was pretty shiney at 12 hours it was shinier.. This is with corn cob and polishing compound. Also even after 12 hours the primer pockets are still really dirty. I use the primer cleaner tool, but was hoping it would clean there.
4. I am using a lee classic turret press and my order of operations are:
1. Clean brass with water and soap and rinse and dry
2. Deprime and size
3. Tumble polish cases
4. Measure case length and clean primer pocket
5. Trim long cases
6. Chamfer case mouth and primer pocket
7. Prime, powder, bullet, crimp
However the setup for the auto indexing turret seems to not have steps for any of the cleaning measuring and prepping in between steps 2 and 7.