Just set up my reloading press!!

[coriantonk]

I just set up my Rock Chucker supreme master reloading kit.  I have never done this before and have some questions.
Has anyone used the IOSO liquid case cleaning kit?  The guy at Cabellas told me it is a good system if you only reload small amounts, but you have to take the primers out before you clean the cases    If that is the case can I resize and pop out the primers before I clean the cases?  I know now that I probably should have just waited a little longer and bought a tumbler but the money was not there and this was less expensive.  I know you can get decapping dies, but by the time you add the price of them them on top of the liquid case cleanig kit I could have bought a tumbler and saved a step.    Any help would be apreciated.  Thanks in advance.

[AWS]

I've been reloading for nearly 50 yrs and haven't had to have a case polishing equipment yet. I just wipe them with a rag if they look dusty or dirty.  I just lube, size, wipe lube off with a rag, clean primer pockets, trim, chamfer, turn upside down run a bore brush in the neck to remove any brass shavings and load.  Haven't ruined a die yet and still get little groups

I've been downsizing, this is my new reloading bench



AWS.

[high country]

I have only had a tumbler for the last 10 or so years myself. it is nice to have shiney brass, but not necessary. the tumbler does help a smidge with auto rounds and neck sized only. I went 10 years w/o a tumbler and never felt under equipped. I too just wiped the cases, but if you are going to get a cleaning device......get a tumbler.

[shaneman153D]

If you have to run the shells through a sizing die before you can clean them, it defeats the purpose of cleaning them. 

And +1 to what AWS said.  Just wipe 'em down.

[coriantonk]

Thanks guys,  I was hoping that was the case.  Just bought 1000 large rifle primers today, so as soon as I get powder and bullets I am in business. 

[Jekemi]

AWS. When you started reloading 50 years ago what were prices like? Seems like prices have gone up so much for brass and bullets over the past two years. Can't imagine what the prices were back in the 1960's. It would be interesting to know how much has changed.  I'm just getting started and wondering how long it will take to break even.

[AWS]

I just pulled out some old dies to sell and I found a set of reloading dies from 1976 and the price tag was $6.98, 300Sav. Texan dies.  It takes about as long to recoup now as it did then.  In 1969 I was makeing $4.00/hr running a 80 ton overhead crane in a factory.

AWS

[fishseeker]

I bought a Lee Zip trim to do my brass. If they are real dirty I just drop them of at my brothers and pick them up nice and clean

[luv2shoot]

Tumblers are cheap and nice to have, not necasary but real nice. Clean brass is easier to spot defects also.

[carpsniperg2]

i have a super high end tumbler that i got, one of the best deals in my life on. use to just use steel wool no more for me. good luck and remeber never to push the limits.