Cleaning , depriming & storing.

[okietool]

Do you guys deprime before or after you clean?

And how do you store cleaned brass?

I have a lot of brass laying around I need to clean sort and deprime.

I probably won't live long enough to load it all so I need to store it.

 

[okietom]

Sell it and party on the proceeds.

 

[furlong222]

old coffee cans....mark them cleaned or not cleaned...

 

[swampratt]

I have some cleaned 30-06 in shoe boxes. deprimed sized annealed and ready.
I also have pistol brass in plastic jars that is cleaned and ready, and some that is just cleaned and needs deprimed.

I mark all containers with tape and sharpie as what is in them and what has been done to them.
My brass is pin tumbled,,and it looks just as good in air tight containers as it does on the shelf in loading blocks,
even after a year they look the same.

For my rifle and 357 brass i like to keep it sorted as to how many times it has been fired and head stamp.
the 45acp brass i sort by headstamp

 

[Old Fart]

Zip-Lock bags in cheap dollar store clear containers. Stacked nicely on top of each other on a shelf.

 

[aviator41]

I use ice cream buckets and large plastic bags. brass can be in several stages. I deprime then sonic clean and tumble with nu finish and store. Then as time permits I will size and trim if needed followed by a quick tumble to remove sizing lube and re cover with nu finish.

Brass is stored in plastic bags with a 3x5 card with count, condition, date and any notes (4th firing etc...), that way calibers can be stored together in one bucket in various conditions.