Cleaning brass

[Eric Johanen]

The time has come after almost 2 years of hand cleaning my 44-77 brass to run them through the pins and anneal the brass. It is clean but dull and I want it nice and shiny especially the primer pockets and the inside of the cases. When finished tumbling it's is time for a fresh annealing. Beginning the new season with almost new brass and looking forward to reloading with fresh bullets and powder. Lots of shooting planed for this season using this very fine rifle. ( Oh and my new 1877 #1 long range 45-70 is about 2 or 3 weeks away). This summer I'll be shooting up my older ammo in several calibers and giving them the same treatment.

[tarbe]

I cleaned my brass for at least 40 years using walnut shells in a vibratory unit.

Started using SS pins about a year ago and found myself wondering why I waited so long!

Kinda like the feeling I had last week when I fired my first BP PP 45-70.

Eric - I think I have the same disease you have...sometimes I swear I shoot so I can load!

[Kurt]

I was in a Farm&Fleet store getting some things and I saw a bottle of Jungle Jake sitting on the shelf that made me chuckle when I saw it so I picked it up because my Dawn was running low.
I use a Frankfort Arsenal tumbler that is a little larger than the Tumblers tumbler and I use a mix of SST Pins and the Ceramic. It turned out the Jungle juice with a tee spoon of Lemishine does a fine job as good as these cases that I used some dishwasher Cascade and Lemishine for these .44-77 and .38 spl. shine inside and outside.