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my wife got a new Springfield Hellcat Pro 9mm. I plan on reloading for it. I have 1000 mixed once fired brass, Extreme 124gn Plated HP's, OLD W231 powder and WSP primers. What is a good starting point? 4.0gn with plated? Also have 124gn Hornady XTP JHP, does anyone have old data for using old W231 powder and an XTP 124gn bullet? afraid of using new data as powder probably has changed. I am guessing powder is pre 1996, cans are unopened and powder seems fine.

I should never have traded my rock polisher for the big Dillon Vibrating brass cleaner and media seperator. I could do 500 large pistol or 300 .308 cases at a time, but wet tumbling was all but unknown around my area 40 yrs ago. Someone here said to load ammo then tumble clean the lube. Doesn't that change the powder by breaking it down and changing the burn rate? I was told never to do it that way because it was unsafe.

I am new at wet tumbling. I am using Harbor Freight dual tumbler, no pins. I tumble for 3 hrs, simply because the way my time is divided. My brass, either rifle or pistol are the cleanest ever. bright and shiny on the outside and roughly 80% on the inside, even the heavily tarnished that dry tumbling never cleaned. I even pulled brass out of the recycle that I gave up on is looking bright and clean. Does the Auto soap and wax help keep them from tarnishing? Do they clean up quicker? All I use is a couple drops of Dawn Dishsoap and about a teaspoon of Lemishine. I rinse until clean use Dillon Brass/Corncob seperator, put in a brownie pan and put in oven I use for baking powder coat for 10 to 15 minutes at 210 degrees and they look new.