Originally Posted By: pyscodogThe guy that wrote the article said that cleaning the inside of the case wasn't that important???
I just don't care for the soap. lemon shine, then separating the pins and dirty water then having to dry them. I use metal polish in my media and it keeps the dust down. When it starts getting to dusty, I change my media. I use a fine media and it doesn't clog the primer hole and dumps real easy back into the tumbler even with small cases. I get nice shiny cases as well.
one big thing that wet tumbling offers that dry tumbling never can - containing 100% of the lead dust.
dry tumblers - even with polish and/or dryer sheets - still produce dust thats harmful to us if we breath it in. not only during tumbling itself, but also during the separation stage when we're probably closest to it.
with wet tumbling - 100% of that lead dust byproduct is held in emulsification in the cleaning solution. your respiratory system is protected - barring you start snorting the liquid anyway lol
if the article being referenced is what i recall reading about - its about a loss of consistency of neck tension due to over cleaning the neck area of the inside of the case. the carbon removed from the necks partly acts as lube for seating and the bullet releasing from the neck when fired. removing it puts you back to similar situation of using never fired NIB brass.
it can be mostly overcome by proper annealing, and also by lubing case necks (ergo, if you dont need to apply lube you're actually saving yourself time/$) ... but its only really going to come into play in situations where extreme consistency (lets say long range match shooting, or possibly ELR hunting) is needed. those circumstances were fractional MOA gains are truly critical.
many/most reloaders will probably never see a significant difference in accuracy because of it.
lets be honest - barring the circumstances that you hang out with a bunch of folks who shoot matches every other weekend for fun - the number of folks who are ever gonna take a shot past 200 yds are pretty small
the number of folks who can truly repeat sub moa - no less sub ½ MOA - consistently at distances beyond even 200 or 300 yds (or even 100 yds!) are relatively few and far between even amongst the folks who do stretch their firearms out to/past the 200 yd mark at all..
so unless you really need to squeeze another fraction of a fraction of an inch out of your groups, its probably not something to worry about.