Pistol cases you just won't be bothered with...?

[tmd16556]

I keep everything so far. Some go into the library of cartridge cases for reference.

In 9x19 I really only load Blazer and Win because I had a lot of them. I keep a strategic stockpile of R-P brass, and just don’t find as much FC brass. I take the odd ones and sort some out to form Makarov brass. Mostly GFL and S&B since I load those in 9x18 already. I did find that some S&B cases are steel. Not many but some and trimming really makes them show. Now that I can find Starline Makarov brass the conversions are not as needed, but those things do toss some brass.

I figure I can keep the .40 and .380 I accidentally pick up and use them to trade for something else later.

 

[Highland Lofts]

Line up your brass on bench and shorter 380Auto and 9x18 brass will be easy to identify from longer 9mm brass.

I seen a video where you take the plastic pistol ammo tray from factory ammo.
Put it in a bucket or a plastic wash tub with your sorted ammo and grab hand fulls of the ammo and drop it over the ammo tray and 99% of the time they land in the plastic ammo tray mouth up. .
You can then see any shorter or longer pieces of brass. .
Put a piece of card board over the full tray and flip it over and you can check for head stamps or in 45acp you can separate the cases with small primer pockets and cases with large primer pockets.
I picked up a bunch of them plastic trays up in the gravel pit to use as loading trays as well.

The video of using the tray to sorting the brass is on YouTube.
I just punched in sorting brass and the video is titled something like

Sorting 9mm pistol brass to reload.

You will see the plastic bucket with the plastic ammo tray.
I don't know how to copy & paste other wise I# add the link for the video. Maybe some one can look at it and post the video link..

 

[kidneyboy]

Line up your brass on bench and shorter 380Auto and 9x18 brass will be easy to identify from longer 9mm brass.

I clean all 38caliber brass at the same time. This is how I sort them out.

 

[gifbohane]

R-P is the absolute worst for me because the rim is smaller than all others and sometimes pulls out of the shellholder.

I have a lot of R-P that I holding in my "Use last Pile." I have plenty of time so I plonk each 9mm after sizing and before belling and again after complete round is finished. Too often my R-P, which I now keep hidden away, would not plonk when finished, they stand proud of the barrel. Tried fiddling with the "crimp" and redoing the round and it rarely helped. I tried filing the rim just in case but it did not help. So................stored.

 

[Hartkopf]

With the Lee decapping pin, you tighten the collet nut until your old man senses tell you “that’s too far.” Then tighten it another 1/4 turn.

 

[packetloss]

Line up your brass on bench and shorter 380Auto and 9x18 brass will be easy to identify from longer 9mm brass.

That's a little hard to do when you have to go through 3000 cases. I tend to spot most of them in my brass dryer racks, but definitely miss a few. It's probably the main reason I deprime as it's own step. I find these 100% of the time there.

 

[FROGO207]

I have a lot of R-P that I holding in my "Use last Pile." I have plenty of time so I plonk each 9mm after sizing and before belling and again after complete round is finished. Too often my R-P, which I now keep hidden away, would not plonk when finished, they stand proud of the barrel. Tried fiddling with the "crimp" and redoing the round and it rarely helped. I tried filing the rim just in case but it did not help. So................stored.

Those are what I use to reload my lead and coated bullets with. The thinner case walls keep me from having to adjust my taper crimp when switching from FMJ/plated when loading 9MM. Also they don't size the bullet down when crimping.

When sizing 9MM on my single stage press I can sort out Makarov brass by the spot my hand is in the arc of the press handle when the brass makes contact. It goes lower when I deprime a MAC case. Also 380 will show no resistance until the primer is contacted by the decapping pin. I just save them and resize at a later time.