Originally Posted by
b2lee
I always decap and then wet tumble. For those that say why have a progressive if you decap in a seperate stage?...I simply dump the pistol rounds in....turn on the case feeder and only have the lee decapper installed in station #1 and run through them very quickly. Then dump them into the tumbler...go do something else for a few hours...come back...dump them into a cheap food dehydrator...come back...ready to rock. I have a small hole cut into the bottom of the case feeder hopper that allows dirt to fall out. Plus I'll shake the dust off the brass in the shaker plates for seperating brass by size before decapping.
For rifle rounds...I decap...and inspect....tumble...dry....and run them through the single stage...inspect each round on each stage of the process. You can never inspect too much.
For those that say this takes too long....I'm willing to bet you got more time to sit around and inspect than you do to actually go out and shoot.