How did you pick your bullets?

[WinchesterModel12]

I use these for general purpose plinking
http://www.xtremebullets.com/

Like everybody else they are backlogged with orders right now.

 

[Scott Hearn]

I'm just using liquid dish soap and hot tap water. Put a few thousand brass in a 5 gallon bucket and agitate by hand every 10 minutes. Drain and rinse after an hour. Started drying on cookie sheets in the oven at 250 degrees, but that was too inconvenient, so I lay a towel out on the trampoline in the backyard and let them air dry. Not a spotless cleaning, but better than tumbling. Quite frankly this is all less time-consuming than using the tumbler and having to use the media separator and then individually dump the media out of any cases that didn't dump it while in the media separator.

I got some citric acid to start trying out also, from the Mediterranean Imports store. According to the internet the brass will be very clean after a soak in diluted citric acid. http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?83572-Citric-acid-brass-cleaner


Eventually I plan on getting a cement mixer like GT did, and maybe even using the stainless steel pin media.

Watch that citric acid man. It will turn your brass PINK. You show up with pink brass and well you know...

 

[drmitchgibson]

I used it this weekend. 1/4 cup citric acid in 4 gallons of incredibly-hot-but-not-boiling water. Hardly any discoloration, just copper left in a few areas where the zinc went into solution, not many cases affected. Negligible, really. Not too sure about it yet, but in ten minutes I had 3500-4000 very CLEAN brass cases. Only downside was that cases full of mud stayed full of mud. Might go back to the dish soap and long soak just because of that.

 

[JMorris]

1. Run 100%

2. Poke holes/knock down what I needed them to, where I need them to.

3. Don't force me into a bunch of time cleaning guns.

4. "Feel" better than other designs/type of manufacture at PF.

5. Cheapest to meet the above.

 

[jeremys]

I tried a mix of dish soap, brasso and simple green concentrate. 30 min, pretty damn clean.

Oven drying sucks.

I am going to get the cement mixer and some heat lamps. Can clean then drain and apply heat all in same lead infected unit.