I use plain walnut with a vcouple tablespoons of comet or ajax added. Shines plenty good for me.

I'm currently using corn cob, but I have no loyalties to any method or media. But the thing that concerns me about SS is drying. How are you guys drying your cases? At the very least, it takes up lots of space, and a lot of time unless you're using an oven. My time is pretty valuable, so what gives?

I have a couple year old corn cob media in my tumbler. I run it overnight and it gets them plenty clean for me. Deprime with a universal decaping die tumble size trim and load away.

After spinning in a rotary separator, I wad the brass up in an old large bath towel and dry them on the outside, then I spread them on a pizza pan and warm them in the oven at about 160 or so for about half an hour. That seems to be sufficient.

With really dirty brass I have washed with dish soap then I bunch them in groups of 20 with a rubber band and use my wife's blow dryer to dry them.

Walnut shell media (lizard bedding from PetSmart, cheaper that way.). For SHINY brass, finish up with corn cob media, all done in an old, cheapie Frankfort Arsenal tumbler.

I don't ever get the brass wet, just tumble and go.