tumbling

The insides of my cases have the red residue from the walnut tumbling media. After I deprime them should I wash them real good or does it not matter?

Hi everyone, this is my first post on this board. I went to the range today, second trip with this rifle. I was shooting 175smks, Varget, CCI BR, fed brass. Started at 40.0, tumbled. Moved to 42.0, tumbled. Then 43.0, in LC brass, tumbled. I then tried factory gmm 168gr, and that even...

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Any one ever tumble any bullets, I just found someones stash from along time ago and they are in great shape but look like they are about to turn colors. There's enough to fill a small (1lb) coffee can so it would definitely pay off. I think they're 120g .257 smk's The only drawback I can think...

what do you use as media in your tumbler? and how long does it last?

I've heard very negative things can happen when you tumble loaded rounds. Not from them "going off" in the tumbler, but because the tumbling action can act as a mill and change the powder, instead of a rod powder you can end up with a fine ball dust powder adn the burn rate is extremely high...