Are these cases ruined?

Why is everyone in such a rush?

I wash my brass in soapy (Dawn) water. Rinse a time or three. Toss into a strainer. Shake. Shake again. Set in a sunny spot for a day or two. Done.
 
Sometimes that's the only brass you have clean and you plan to shoot tomorrow morning . It happens you know , you think you have brass ready to go or even ammo for the next day only to realize you shot up your ammo and had not cleaned any in awhile .

That happen to me last year . Thought i had plenty of ammo to shoot the next morning . How ever when i went to get everything ready i only had 40rds of a cartridge I'd likely need 2 or 3 hundred . That was the night I realized I only like reloading when i want to reload . It really sucked because it was to late to buy from the store so I had to spend 2hrs that night reloading when i really did not feel like it . I dry tumbled that night .
 
That happen to me last year . Thought i had plenty of ammo to shoot the next morning . How ever when i went to get everything ready i only had 40rds of a cartridge I'd likely need 2 or 3 hundred . That was the night I realized I only like reloading when i want to reload . It really sucked because it was to late to buy from the store so I had to spend 2hrs that night reloading when i really did not feel like it . I dry tumbled that night .
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That happened to me this year. I had to decap, tumble, dry, body size, neck size, anneal, prime, and load 80 .300wm rounds for a 1k yard match the next morning. Couldn't do it the week before because I was out of town at an unexpected funeral. It happens.
 
Sometimes that's the only brass you have clean and you plan to shoot tomorrow morning . It happens you know
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I suggest you shooters back away from the key board and start putting some cases away, I do not get desperate until we start talking about 1,000 cases.

I have the #45 tumble meaning the capacity is 1,000 30/06 cases or 45 pounds, which ever comes first; meaning I tumble cases before loading.

F. Guffey
 
If I needed some brass tomorrow, I'd just wipe my cases with a solvent dampened rag and reload as usual. I did this for 12 years before I got a tumbler (I didn't need to impress anyone with shiny brass at the range). I knew a few reloaders that didn't fall for the "shiny brass shoots better" BS and just like them I let my target do my talkin', (but for me shooting is a solo sport so I didn't ave anyone to justify my reloads to). And no, I didn't ruin any dies or scratch any chambers and yes, I could spot any defects in the cases...
 
If I needed some brass tomorrow, I'd just wipe my cases with a solvent dampened rag and reload as usual.
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I've done that too , Not very often buts you got to do what's you gots to do sometimes :)
 
Because I have much more time for reloading than I have for shooting, I usually have a couple hundred or so prepped and ready to charge/seat on hand for the calibers I reload. Most of the time out of boredom, or just wanting to do something "reloading" I'll prep some brass; clean, size, trim rifle brass and prime, then store in plastic "tupperware".Just the ther day I did 200, 9mm cases and they are waiting for a spot in my ammo can...
 
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