Sesshoku wrote:...snip...Though I did a very quick clean of primer pockets, I will put more importance to that part of the process.
Thank you everyone for your input and advice. I maintain that this is the best forum out there, and I'm so glad I found it.
WRT primer pockets. Actually a "quick clean" should suffice. Not everyone even bothers to do just that. I got that idea not out of personal experience. I read about it while googling around trying to find some possible insights into squib shots that we had not brought into this discussion. The great news about that unlikely, but mentioned cause, is that we care enough about helping one another to spend some of our disposable time doing research on our fellow member's behalf. Happens a lot but just like peeing yourself in dark pants, no one notices but you and then all you get is a warm feeling of fulfillment.
One of the biggest gifts to reloaders is wet pin tumbling. If you simply deprime your range brass without resizing those grit carriers and then wet tumble them, you are rewarded with brass that looks like new, right down to the primer pockets. The nay-sayers go on about the errant pin left in the flash hole, but as one who wet tumbles
a lot of brass, when you roll them around in the "bingo ball" style separator, they rarely have a pin left stuck in them. After they're dried, most "stow-away" pins fall out anyway. Who in their right mind doesn't do at a minimum, a causal inspection of reload brass before proceeding further with them anyway. Didn't mean for this to turn into another one of Hoot's tangential, distracting paragraphs. Suffice it to say, like hand washing after a wizz, any effort goes a long way and quick cleaning your primer pockets should suffice, for all but the most fastidious BR reloaders.
Raises Hand.
Hoot