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8/29/2014 4:07:19 PM EDT
I picked up some blemished 9mm JHP from Midsouth a while back and ran some of them through the tumbler today. Most were just tarnished and it cleaned them right up. Any reason not to do this?
8/29/2014 4:12:54 PM EDT
[#1]
Hmmm.... cleaned cases can be resized to the proper dimensions. resizing bullets is a different subject.

And what about the softer lead core... is that going to turn your solution into a heavily laden soup of lead and cleaning solution?

I'd like to thick that you would be very hard pressed to damage ( in anyway ) thicker jacketed handgun bullets.... but I, personally, would not do it to thinner jacketed match type bullets.... for fear of some how throwing the concentricity out of whack.


Just my two cents.... and thinking out loud.
8/29/2014 4:31:12 PM EDT
[#2]
Only reason I would clean pulled bullets is if they had tar or some other sealant on them and then it would likely be a wipe with lighter fluid.

If I did any kind of tumbling it would be in walnut shells and mineral spirits.
8/29/2014 5:49:17 PM EDT
[#3]
I use a half hour soak in Lemishine to clean blemished bullets, rinse with water and dry.



For jacketed bullets, I wouldn't think a short wet tumble would hurt, just not what I do.
8/31/2014 7:14:26 AM EDT
[#4]
I never thought of just the lemishine soak. I will have to give that a shot. For the record, 45 minutes in the tumbler with some dawn and lemishine made them sparkle.
8/31/2014 7:50:23 AM EDT
[#5]
You should be fine.  It's a 9mm so likely you are going to crimp too so not exactly a precision round.
8/31/2014 8:25:57 AM EDT
[#6]
I had a bunch of 175 pulls that were pretty ugly.  Bases coated with tar, pull marks, ect.

I tumbled them in stainless for a couple hours, ran them through a CH4D .3085 die, pointed them and then tumbled them in corn cob.

They look like new other than the pull marks.

I use them for 308 subsonic ammo.
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