Nested cases
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ewlyon
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good suggestions. I usually recommend the shell sorting plates to keep cases from "nesting". they sort cases into 4 groups based on size so if you do that before cleaning then you will only rarely get nested cases. then after the cases are clean the make separating the media very quick and easy.
To add, somebody posted a while back, seperate by case mouth size. And from large mouth to small, add to tumble bowl. Let each mouth size tumble about 5-10 mins. to fill the case with media.
When I follow that, I don't get stuck case in case.
entropy
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Or separate and tumble by caliber. Works for me. Sometimes I throw the oddballs I pick up at the range in together, but they're not calibers I reload, so if they nest and they don't come apart, I just toss them.
AZAndy
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I've been bedeviled by .40 cases getting stuck in my .45ACP, due to incautious sweeping by the range guys, and they don't separate in the tumbler. Good thing the depriming pin can pop up, or I would have already replaced it a dozen times. It brings the progressive to a screeching halt.
As posted, put the .45 ACP brass in the tumbler first and let it run long enough to fill the cases with media, then add the .40's. They won't get stuck in the .45's then.
Dump cases in by size: .45, .40, .38/.357/9MM, .32, .25.
Reloader Fred taught me that trick.
Hadn't thought of doing that before. Good idea. I'll try that Saturday when I get back from the range . I always tumbled different caliber cases separately. This will save a lot of time and effort .
AZAndy
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What I mean is that they get nested as they're swept up, and stay that way. I don't shoot .40, but I always seem to wind up next to somebody who does. It all comes from a curse placed on me by a psychotic Romani when I was an infant. Yes, I could check them carefully before cleaning, but there are only so many minutes in a day.
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I understood that. 
If they have been tumbled together and are jammed together with media in between the case walls of each I doubt the tumbler would separate them. Just laying inside of each other from being swept up? I have no doubt the tumbler would indeed separate them.
If they have been tumbled together and are jammed together with media in between the case walls of each I doubt the tumbler would separate them. Just laying inside of each other from being swept up? I have no doubt the tumbler would indeed separate them.
BillBloggins
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I collect range pick up and like Gump and that box of chocolates you never know what you're going to get. I keep looking for a "perfect storm" of nested cases, with a conga line of .500, 45, .40, .38/.357/9MM/.380, .32, .25., and .22 to emerge from my tumbler. If this were to ever happen I would take it as a sign and I would literally run to the nearest 7-11 and buy some lotto tickets.
Dudedog
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The 9mm's fit perfect in .40s which fit in perfect .45s, I wouldn't mind if I shot a .40 but since I don't I sometimes curse it's invention
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