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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2016 9:28:41 GMT -7
Have read of, and listened to methods others use, of the various ways folks clean their BPCR brass/cases.
Whether it's a beginning process at the firing line, dropping spent cases into a vinegar solution or similar method,
then when back at their home place some different ways they continue to clean the cases.
What is the method(s), procedure, magic, you use for cleaning your black powder rifle brass?
Is there a preferred tumbler model you prefer and the ingredients/method you prefer?
Yes, have read the tumbler media post in the Reloading Equipment Forum section. Do you vary from what's posted there?
thank you
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Post by missionary on Feb 27, 2016 5:55:10 GMT -7
Good morning
Always carry a one gallon jug of water with a small squirt of Dawn dish soap. About 2/3-3/4 full if shooting a lot of brass. As you are shooting (if not going to range reload your brass) drop each fired brass into the jug. When you get home give it a good shaking for a bit. Then dump. I deprime. Then in hot water is have a "cartridge brush" of that caliber (brass bore brush) and give each cartridge a good interior scrub. I use a rotational scrub so the brush does not get stuck. 5 times in and out. Then I hang them on a 10 inch 2x4 block "drying tree" (Lots of long finish nails set at an angle so the water can drip out). Takes some hours.
Clean primer pockets when dry. Ready to reload. I do not tumble clean my BP brass. I do not resize. I do not neck size for the single shots. The lever guns brass get a light neck tension so the soft cast does not get resized but will not fall out. The BP will form the solid column to hold it from getting pushed in.
My 1884 & 43 Spanish dedicated BP brass is from 1982 and still churning out rounds. No looses or problems. It's near black colored but I could care less.
Mike in Peru
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2016 20:10:47 GMT -7
missionary: thank you for taking a bit of time to describe the procedures you use with your BPCR brass.
I've mostly used 5744 with my single shots, but now that have provided a home for a Borchardt Sporting Rifle Caal. 40 2 1/2, will be using only BP with it. Which means shall begin using BP with my Peabody rifles/carbines in .45 2 1/10 and .50 1 3/4, as well. I still like 5744 though. Have a load for a .45-50 Peabody round, consisting of 20.0 grs (obtained from Accurate Arms laboratory in 2009) 5744 and a 315 grain cast bullet (mold special cut by Tom Ballard, Montana, one of the last molds he cut before he sold off his equipment and again retired, back in 2009) that will do 2 - 2 1/2" at 100 yards, from an original Peabody Sporting Rifle, shot over the hood of my pickup.
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Post by missionary on Feb 28, 2016 7:45:18 GMT -7
Fantastic ! I have a 45 2 1/10 Peabody also that I have only fed 3F. It shoots great ! Hopefully a caliber 50 will wander in my direction one day.
5744 is a good powder. Have a 50-95 replica 1876 that shoots a 350 grainer 30-1 with 3F into clover leafs at 100 off cross sticks. 5477 is the only powder that comes close in accuracy. I also contacted Accurate Powder to get starting info. They were very helpful. The info they had printed in 50-95 was what I found as the most accurate in my 26" repro with the 350 grainer. 300 grainers have way to much momentum lose after 120 yards. 350's really smack a 200 yard 6 inch plate. 5477 in fat cartridges is a good place to start. 4198 came in a close second. I have found with 5477 to match the velocity of the best 3F load and "tweek" the 5477 up and down a hair. That usually is going to be the best with fat straight cases.
The brush and drying tree is the key to the water washing BP. Probably any dish soap will work but Dawn does the best many have found. Have heard that the better dishwater soaps also are great. But hey I am over 65 and Dawn has served me well near all my BP life. The tree increases drying time 2x or better with moving air. On nice days I hang mine out on the close line. Used to lay them on an inclined rag but an older BP Sharps shooter Danny Powell indoctrinated me to the tree years back.
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Post by Junior on Feb 28, 2016 9:43:01 GMT -7
I use hot water and a squirt of dish soap and a little lime or lemon juice , and then rotary tumble it for a few hours. Then I will dry tumble like I always do after sizing. I'm doing a 5 gal bucket full of 30/06 brass that way right now that was shot with corrosive primers.
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Post by goodsteel on Feb 28, 2016 10:25:01 GMT -7
I tumble with SS pins, so it's a non issue for me.
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Post by mike on Mar 7, 2016 18:48:18 GMT -7
My method is to simply soak the fired and de-primed cases in hot water for a time. That hot water might have a dash of dishwashing soap in it but that isn't necessary. Then I brush each case internally and let them stands to dry overnight. From there they go into my Lyman shaker for a bit of polish. And from there they go to the loading bench. Shoot sharp, Mike
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