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Clean New Brass?

Cleaning virgin ADG, Peterson, Lapua, Alpha, isn't "required" per se. Higher quality brands come very clean.

Just food for thought...

Some high quality brass even comes in ammo boxes to prevent shipping damage, but I have yet to see a production line where necks have 100% protection before they are placed into those containers. I have still received high-end brass in boxes with dented necks and they still need to be chamfered for most applications.

If your new brass is out of round or dented, you shouldn't chamfer it before you round it. If virgin necks are dented or out of round, a chamfer tool will create an uneven cut. That neck will then be forced into rounding by your bullet, but at the risk of friction variations or even scratches on the jacket.

You can alternatively flare and taper crimp to avoid chamfering virgin brass like many factory production lines, but that is a whole other detailed discussion.

When you run an un-lubricated/non-treated mandrel into a virgin unlubricated neck, you run the risks of galling, so many folks will "wet" lubricate before chamfer or neck sizing. That results in a reason for post prep cleaning. Some folks do it unlubricated with success, and others get burned by galling. You have to decide for yourself.

You can however, get away with mandrel sizing with one of several dry lube methods which makes post-prep cleaning optional again.

So, the short answer is like DMagna says, but those other issues are worth mentioning in case you haven't thought about them before. YMMV
 
Bought 100 pieces of ADG. Do I need to tumble it before I start loading it?
I had hard seating primers in some 6.5CM Starline brass. Both with CCI200 and Remington 9 1/2. As best I could measure the primers were consistently the same size. I called Starline and they told me that the cases are extremely clean as shipped as are the primers. They suggested running them through my case cleaner with previously used media. This would impart a minuscule amount of lube in the primer pocket. I tried it on 10 cases and voila the primers seat fine now. So I now clean my new brass. I full length size it as well to ensure the necks are not deformed from packing and shipping. After the first firing I check neck thickness. Side note: My Starline brass has always come in EXACTLY the same length. The consistency is uncanny.
 
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