I took your guys advice and bought me a tumbler. My question is, do you tumble your brass before you remove the old primers or after. My reloader neck sizes and removes the primer at the same time. For that reason, I thought it would be better to clean the brass first to keep from damaging the neck sizer from dirt on the brass.

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I second DG's post, I also size and deprime before tumbling.

1. universal decapping die
2. tumbler
3. clean primer pocket
4. inspect
5. resize
6. inspect
7. trim (tumbling afterwards is optional)
8. new primer
9. inspect
10. powder charge
11. bullet
12. weigh and inspect
13. box and label
14. shoot
15. repeat

If I'm starting with a new batch of brass I seperate them by manufacturer. Then I resize and trim every one of them. After that I seperate the "same manufacture" brass by weight.

when I'm loading for my "groundhog gun" I really get picky. For this gun, I weigh every single powder charge. I also have a tweezers... I add/remove a single pellet of powder until I reach the correct weight... ok... maybe I get a little fanatical with this load!!

~Happiness is flying brass! -Country Boy

Thanks for everyones opinions.

I throw mine in the tumbler first. Then I neck size them with the Lee collet neck die which requires no lubrication. After that I clean the primer pockets with a primer pocket uniformer and I'm ready to reprime, etc...

ROCKYTOP,
I do things a little differently than most. I use a RCBS decapping die to knock out the old primers, clean the primer pockets and then tumble the cases. Once clean, I size them, trim for length if necessary and then back into the tumbler. I find that this makes it easier on my dies as well as the cases. Good luck.
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BigBob .30-06

I clean,resize and then run them again to take the lube off . Its always worked for me so I doubt if I will change anything now.

I don't like taking a chance on getting powder or dirt in my sizing die so I tumble the cases before sizing to clean them. Then after sizing and decapping I put 'em back in the tumbler to take off the lube and polish them.

I AM serious... >>--->

I resize them then toss them in the tumbler to get all the lube and other stuff off. I sometimes wonder who made up this stuff about scratching dies. If this stuff was so dirty then why'd they shove it in their rifle chamber to begin with? I've never seen a die scratched from dirt, and even if it somehow did happen, dies are a whole lot cheaper to replace than rifles.