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My question is, how dirty is the brass? I reloaded for 40 ish years before I ever tumbled a case. I'd just twirl the bottleneck case neck in fine steel wool to clean the neck and shoulder. The only reason I recently started using the cheap tumbler I had was because a nice fellow on this forum gave me a bunch of 9mm range brass, some of which needed cleaning, so I unpacked the tumbler and used it and threw in some rifle brass too. Before you know it, I threw in everything but the housecat and shined it all up. Looks good now, but if you're talking rifle brass and it isn't more than tarnished, with blackened necks, just steel wool the neck and shoulder and you should be Ok. That's also a good way to find any split case necks you might have. But, if you want a tumbler, Harbor Freight has a really cheap one. It looks exactly like most every other '$99 plus' tumbler you can buy from the name companies, but it was dirt cheap. And they had the walnut media.
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