Im just curious as so how many people on here use tumblers in there reloading routine?

Wheather it be for cleaning, polishing or whatever you use it for. I came across a good deal on a brand new one and im curious if I would actually use it enough to warrent the purchase.

+1, all the time, every batch.

It would depend on the amount of shooting you do, and how much you like having clean cases, or how much time you like spending wiping off the case lube with a rag.

I have a 2500 Pro Magnum, which does my bulk work on about a bi-monthly basis, a small Midway unit which gets a LOT of handgun cases, and all rifle cases which have just been sized, and a RCBS which does some moly coating in one barrel, or used with a liquid cleaner on range brass that is REALLY stubborn or has mud in them.

I can't say that they are something I couldn't do with out, but they sure do save me plenty of time verses a rag or drill and steel wool.

We use them all the time.

For larger batches, I always use one of my (three) tumblers.

- mike

I'm with the guys above.
Brass comes home from the range, gets cleaned. Here the pistol brass gets put into the bins ready for loading, the rifle brass goes thru the resizing process and tumbled again for removing the lube.

Jim

I use my tumbler with walnut shells, corn cob and Molybdenum Disulfide.

I use mine all the time, between loadings.
Doug

Even if I'm loading a single box of ammo, the brass is thrown the tumbler at night and it's runs till morning (about 8 hours).....

I like clean cases for resizing and shooting.

If I merely want to load a 5-shot group I wipe with alcohol or acetone and go from there.

Normally my tumbler runs with about fifty cases almost once a month.

I've had it for close to 20 years and it's still doing the job!

Excellent tool that I use too.

+1 more. I use my small Lyman and it works great so far (once a month for the last year).

No, don't use one. Had one and gave it to a kid starting to reload. Don't miss it.

yes, i use one. been using one for 18 years. mine is a midway brand. does a great job with ground up wall-nut hulls.

use them constantly have 2 a small one for small amounts and a big one for lots. especially fine if you shoot autos - makes finding brass much easier

Been using one since they first came out.

I have two and I use them both BUT over on the Cast Boolits site there is a "sticky" with well over 100 posts on using citric acid to clean cases (and a whole lot of other things"). It is well worth the read!! Have a great day.

I never use a tumbler.

tumblers=one of the greatest things since bottle beer.

+1 I use one every batch

For brass that I buy new or nearly new I rarely use a tumbler since I never let the brass get cruddy. I generally wipe the brass off with a slightly oily rag.
For large lots of brass that I buy once fired I will often tumble it to clean off the tarnish and finger prints. Once cleaned it is rarely necessary to tumble it again.

I like mine with corncob and Nu-Finish car wax and use it often.

I tumble my brass to get the oil off of it????

roger

I dont have one. Might try it if I had one. I hate wipeing lube out of the inside of the necks, I could be doing outside chores instead
My brass stays pretty clean, and I like the annealed colored necks

I use it every time to get the lube off after resizing.

I dont load in huge batches...I only load rifle as well. And the majority of loads I load are 204 and 7mm Mag. But I can see how having one would be less of a hassle trynig to wipe out case lude on my 204...

Used to use one for ALL handgun ammunition reloading and, because I had it, sometimes for rifle ammunition.

When handguns were banned in UK I sold the tumbler and have lived without one for ten plus years as I always full length size my rifle ammunition.

Apart from cosmetics I don't see the need to tumble cases used in any bolt action rifle. The cases seem to come "clean" enough after you wipe the re-sizing lubricant off them!

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curious as so how many people on here use tumblers in there reloading routine?

I have no idea but you can add me to the list of those who do.

I use my Dillon tumbler to clean up brass after washing them as I figure clean brass resizes easier. After resizing, I tumble them again to get the resizing lube off them.

And, I also have Dillon's media separator thingie for separating the media from the brass. Once the tumbler does its job, I just dump the contents into the separator, spin it a few seconds, and the brass is ready for reloading. Very nice.

I wouldn't be caught dead w/o a tumbler.

The older I get, the lazier I get. I am using my tumbler more and more. It cuts down on the double, triple and quadruple handling of the brass. It removes one of the hand cleaning steps for me.