Have a huge quantity of once fired pistol brass that I am going to resize/deprime, tumble, box, and sell. Tumble before resizing, and clean lots of primer pockets afterwards? Or tumble after resizing/depriming and hope the pockets clean up?
How do you guys do it? Thanks, Grant.

tumble, de=prime and clean pockets, tumble again.
I use a polymer wax based car polish with a slight cutting compound in the second tumble, the cases keep the shine for a long period.
my 2c

John

I don't tumble my cases to shine them, merely to clean them so I tumble them after I resize/deprime. I have bought some 1X brass that was shined but not deprimed. If you're gonna sell it, you might consider that.

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Originally posted by wasbeeman:
I don't tumble my cases to shine them, merely to clean them so I tumble them after I resize/deprime. I have bought some 1X brass that was shined but not deprimed. If you're gonna sell it, you might consider that.

Not depriming makes the most sense to me also. Anyone who buys once fired brass is going to FL resize it anyway to fit their rifle's chamber, right? And I clean out my primer pockets each time after resizing. If I were buying once fired brass, old primers left in wouldn't bother me at all.

If I were tumbling my own brass, I'd do it after resizing/depriming. I look at tumbling as nice, but not necessary unless, brass is obviously really dirty, in which case I'd probably go to soap and water first anyway. My .02

I tumble before depriming, picking media out of flash holes is a pain in the ass. Tumbling deprimed brass doesn't clean the primer pockets anyway.

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Originally posted by craigster:
I tumble before depriming, picking media out of flash holes is a pain in the ass. Tumbling deprimed brass doesn't clean the primer pockets anyway.

100% spot-on nailed it.

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Not depriming makes the most sense to me also. Anyone who buys once fired brass is going to FL resize it anyway to fit their rifle's chamber, right? And I clean out my primer pockets each time after resizing. If I were buying once fired brass, old primers left in wouldn't bother me at all.

+1
I doubt you`ll get enough more out of sized, decapped, and cleaned brass to make it worth your while.

Offer it raw and see how it sells. May be more profit in it with essentially zero labor in it...