I check out the "swappin' and sellin" section over on "Castboolits" fairly regularly. Last week a fellow was selling a nice chunk of 300 Savage brass which I jumped on. You know how that is -- you figure most of it will be once-fired and maybe there will be a few that have been reloaded. This stuff was partly once-fired and the rest was never-fired. So color me happy with the purchase. To treat the fired stuff I splooshed them down with my home-made spray lube (that mix of Hornady Unique lube dissolved in Isopropyl Alchohol that we have talked about in previous threads) and ran them through the size die. Last week I had done the same with my stash of W-W 30/30 cases and when I washed them in my trusty tumbler with the Dawn dish soap I discovered that the Dawn doesn't take off my wonderful spray lube. Turned out though that a mix of the wife's "pure Castile liquid soap" and the Dawn detergent did a pretty fair job. (Yes, the combo of soap/detergent did much better than either detergent alone or soap alone).
With my batch of newly sized 300's I was going to wash them in my soap/detergent mix, but then since there were only about 120 of 'em I thought I'd see how they did in the Harbor Freight Sonic cleaner. And turns out the sonic with Lyman sonic cleaner mix did a good job of removing the size lube and the cases were looking pretty good but I had sort of forgot I had the heater on and when I remembered I had clean cases to remove -- well that stuff was too danged hot to handle without me hunting up the rubber gloves. You other fellers know how easy it is to forget these little details. So I just turned off the Sonic and thought I'd get them out "later". Turns out that "later" was about three days later, and by then my clean cases had a funny mottled look from sitting there so long. Which doesn't really bother me too much but I already had the little tumbler sitting out that I had been intending to use originally, so just for grins I loaded the mottled sonic-cleaned things in there with a dab of Dawn and let her rip for about an hour. Man! I never before had cases come out of any of my clean treatments any where near this shiny. I am not a fellow who really tries to get my cases shiny; clean is plenty good enough for me. But if I ever want to get 'em really new-looking, this sonic/tumble treatment is one way to do it! (Unfired left, Combo-cleaned right)
New (looking) 300 Savage brass
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New (looking) 300 Savage brass
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Re: New (looking) 300 Savage brass
Wow, that's a lot of work -- but even if they don't shoot any better, they'll at least LOOK better and be EASIER to find when laying empty in among the fall leaves -- as you bend over to pick it up on your way to a nice 10-pointer that is down for the count...
OK now... Let's see the rifle you'll use them in!
It's a Savage levergun I hope!!!
Old No7
OK now... Let's see the rifle you'll use them in!
It's a Savage levergun I hope!!!
Old No7
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Re: New (looking) 300 Savage brass
Man, I LIKE the way you think....!!!Old No7 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 18, 2017 12:31 pm Wow, that's a lot of work -- but even if they don't shoot any better, they'll at least LOOK better and be EASIER to find when laying empty in among the fall leaves -- as you bend over to pick it up on your way to a nice 10-pointer that is down for the count...
OK now... Let's see the rifle you'll use them in!
It's a Savage levergun I hope!!!
Old No7
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