Best way to clean BP case after use?

[Blair]

wildman1,

I heat the oven to about 300 degrees, and depending on how much brass I am annealing, 1 to 2 hours.
Toss it into the tumbler while it is still hot for about 4 to 6 hours.

[Blair]

Seth,
Yes. That is what I am saying.
However, the heat at 300 degrees is not as complete or as direct as the heat from source like a torch.
But it does help relax the work hardening that occurs from normal shooting/firing of brass cases.

[Abilene]

Shiny brass can do an amazing job of hiding from the pickers, add in camouflaged and your precious supply of brass will dwindle quickly.   There are some practical aspects to having clean looking brass.   

This is very true.  Pickin' brass is the posse duty I handle most of the time.  In some terrain the glint of shiny brass certainly helps to find it!  Of course, the light loads some folks use dirty up the brass so much that it doesn't really matter too much how shiny it was when they loaded it into their rifle 

[wildman1]

Thanks Blair. Mine go into the oven for 1/2 hour at 210 degrees after every cleaning to dry em, but they have already been annealed. WM

[Crow Choker]

I do pretty much what Fingers does, although I deprime them with a universal Lyman decapper first. After the soap and hot water and rinse, I toss them on an old towel, roll em around to get excess water out and if its hot and sunny out, lay em in the sun until dry. If its in the cooler time of year I follow what Wildman does as far as temp and time in the stove. I then tumble em in media. Some stains remain, but I can live with that. I use to demand like new condition, but at one time I use to polish all the brass on my '51 Navy and TC Hawkin after every shoot back when I first started shooting black powder until that fetish wore off. Nothing wrong with getting them bright and shiny, but I'm to cheap to invest in a new tumbling setup.

[Blair]

Seth,

I would have to say that I have read it somewhere at sometime or another.
However, If you are looking for a specific quote, it ain't going to happen! Too much time has lapsed.
My suggestion, and that is all it was, is based off of my 40 years of experience as a gunsmith/blacksmith and reloading. In that respect, I would have to say this is first hand Metallurgical experience.
I started using the oven to help speed the drying of washed black powder fired cartridge cases. Here in humid Florida anything helps speed that up.
I thought heating up to 300 degrees would serve two proposes, speed drying, and help anneal the brass case.
It has worked well for me over the years.
Will it work for you... I don't know? Try it. It was only meant as a suggestion.
I hope you find this helpful.