I reload all of my pistol cases on my Dillon progressive presses that does 3 or 4 operations with each stroke. For range pickup or my fired cases, I first soak and shake them in a plastic jar filled with hot water and Lemi shine and a small squirt of Dawn detergent, then I rinse and dry them. Then I vibratory tumble the cases (with the fired primers in them) in walnut shell media. After tumbling I spread them on a towel and wipe the tumbling dust off of them. They are then ready to load.
The first station on my Dillon the case is resized and deprimed with a carbide size die (no need to lube), and a new primer is seated. Second station slightly flairs the case mouth and drops the powder charge. Station 3 seats the bullet an removes the mouth flare. I only use the fourth station to crimp the magnum cases. Reloading is finished.
For rifle cases I first de-prime them with a Lee de-prime die. I do not anneal .223 or .308 brass. Other rifle brass I anneal after every 3rd firing. I also anneal .257 Roberts brass before fireforming because the annealed brass forms better. I don't anneal before expanding case necks, like 7 STW up to .300 Wby or 7mm or .300 RUM cases up to .375 RUM, because the softer annealed shoulders may collapse before the necks are expanded.
I anneal the cases before I clean them so that the cleaning will remove any oxidation and discoloration of the cases. I then clean my rifle cases the same way as I described the cleaning of my pistol cases above, and then these cases are ready to size.
I use Imperial die wax on a pad to lube my rifle cases, then size them and seat the primers, wipe the lube off, then check their length on "trim to length" gauges that I made. After trimming I lightly chamfer and deburr the case mouths.
Other than my standard .223 and .308 loads, I weigh all of the powder chargees for my rifle reloads on my RCBS Chargemaster scale and seat the bullets on a RCBS rockchucker press.
I collet neck size my .223 and .308 cases, so no need to lube them, and I reload them on my Dillon with thrown powder charges, just like I reload my pistol cartridges.
A bit longwinded, but simple process.
