how detailed do you get with your pistol brass?

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Meh. Once upon a time, I did all of the anal retentive sorting stuff but not any more - and I can't see a discernible difference in the accuracy from my guns. No, I'm not a competition shooter - I'm way too old to get wrapped around that axle.

(Necked rifle brass is a whole 'nother story..........)
 
I sort mine by brass or nickel plated. The brass gets reloaded, the nickel plated gets recycled. I know it's okay to use, but I just like to keep things simple. With more 9mm brass than I'll be able to wear out in my lifetime I'm not too worried about it. lol

Now if I was into competition accuracy I might be more meticulous. But I've never come up with a good enough reason to go into that sort of competition.
 
Ditto on the no-sorto, el brasso. Tried the tedious way. My groups didn't get smaller for 9mm or .45

After a few firings I DO clean out the primer pockets, though, and use a Sinclair primer pocket uniforming/reaming tool that makes sure that my primers keep gettin' seated deep enough on my Dillon RL550B. I hate it when the gun goes click and I have to re-cock the hammer and fire it again to get the round off! Since I spent a little more time doing the primer pocket thing, soft primer hits are down to about zero.
 
Initially sorted brass for major brands and whether plain or nickel, Winchester, R-P and Federal. Since I ended up with thousands of each major brand, I shoot, tumble and load them separately so don't have to sort.

The odd brands like Speer, Dominion, IVI, etc were just mixed up but kept nickel plated separate.

After shooting 25 meter groups with different brands, plain or nickel, my conclusion is similar to those who previously said that there is no discernible difference in accuracy among the different brands of casings.

No practical reason for me to sort, except that sorted brass are nicer to look at in MTM/Caseguard boxes.
 
Sort pistol brass?! You've got to be kidding, right? :confused:

Seriously, 9mm ends up tumbled, dumped in the bucket, reloaded, fired, picked up, repeated. For my bulk .44 Magnum loads, same drill.

Now, for full-power .44 ammo, I keep the brass seperate in lots of 50. Record load and number of firings. When they get up in number of firings, they get dumped into the bulk bin for light load duty. Come to think of it, .44 Magnum brass is good and tough, and seems to last forever in light-power loads.

Rifle brass, that gets treated differently. But not much point in sorting pistol brass if you're looking at 3-4" 25-yard groups. That's only 12-16 MOA! ;)
 
for me its like this, I pick up brass if it says 38 super it goes with me thats about as detailed as it gets.........
 
I sort out the S&B, A-MERC, and eastern European junk, and sort the rest between nickel and brass. Other than that, it gets tumbled, loaded, fired, picked up, and so on. I shoot enough lost brass matches that I don't bother keeping track of number of firings.

- Chris
 
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