A weekend of decapping, tumbling, cleaning and swaging. I have a lot of Lake City brass that needs processing. I did about 800 rounds over the weekend and broke out the new sonic cleaner to see how that cleans the brass. Did a pretty good job. Now I'm into a rhythm of a few hundred rounds decapped standing at the bench, sitting down and watching some Prime or Netflix with the Super Swage in my lap, tossing them into the tumbler and then a couple iterations on the cleaner and let dry. Load the processed brass back into their boxes and mark them as "D,S,T,C": Decapped, Swaged, Tumbled and Cleaned. Later I'll either use them in loading sessions later or resize and trim and mark the boxes accordingly.
I am little OCD about this and I see building up component stocks ready for loading to be the goal. It is therapeutic to process brass and I am a bit of a hoarder so I like seeing dirty bags of brass come out shiny and ready for use on the other end. Heck if I keep it up I could sell processed brass and make a little money at it if the ammunition shortage remains like this for the foreseeable future. A lot of folks don't want to deal with military brass. I'll take all I can get my hands on right now. I have a few thousand more pieces of once-fired on order.
Matt
Once my Lee App swage kit shows up I am all over military brass. Until then it stays separate though.