Sorting 380 from 9mm

[Phlier]

My brass sorter:



In my dreams, at least. Dang.

That many buckets had to cost a pretty penny.

 

[Potatohead]

Wish I could empathize w you guys. I wouldn't mind sorting a few buckets of brass if I had 'em lol.

 

[rondog]

I just do it by hand. I'll dump my range pickin's into a big plastic tub and then start plucking out the .223's, then all the large rifle brass, then big pistol brass like .44's and .45 Colts, etc.

When I'm down to the small stuff, I stand them all upright on the tabletop and start plucking them out with some large tweezers I have. Grab out all the .45acps, then any 10mm and/or .38 Supers, then the .40's, and so on.

When nothing's left but the small ones, the .380/9mak/.32acp are very easy to see mixed in with all the 9 Lugers. I can usually tell the difference between a 9mm and a .380 when they're still laying on the ground.

But I've always enjoyed sorting stuff, like nuts & bolts. Gives me a chance to smoke a cigar and have a beverage too.

 

[Rule3]

I might try that but would note that the plate is made to fit in the black bowl ID taper.

Ummm, not exactly.

http://www.shellsorter.com/products/shell-sorter-380-plate

• Description

This 380 ACP adapter plate allows reloaders to easily separate 380 ACP and small brass from 9mm Luger. To use this plate, sort all of your brass as normally through the Shell Sorter™ 3pc set. The contents of the black pan will contain 9mm and 380 brass. Set the 380 plate inside either the blue or yellow Shell Sorter™ pan. Sort the contents of the black pan through the plate, 380 will fall through both the plate as well as the blue or yellow pan, 9mm remains on top. Do not use the black pan with the 380 plate as the 380 brass will get trapped between the plate and the black pan, where you will frequently need to remove the plate to get the brass out

 

[RealGun]

Ummm, not exactly.

http://www.shellsorter.com/products/shell-sorter-380-plate

• Description

This 380 ACP adapter plate allows reloaders to easily separate 380 ACP and small brass from 9mm Luger. To use this plate, sort all of your brass as normally through the Shell Sorter™ 3pc set. The contents of the black pan will contain 9mm and 380 brass. Set the 380 plate inside either the blue or yellow Shell Sorter™ pan. Sort the contents of the black pan through the plate, 380 will fall through both the plate as well as the blue or yellow pan, 9mm remains on top. Do not use the black pan with the 380 plate as the 380 brass will get trapped between the plate and the black pan, where you will frequently need to remove the plate to get the brass out

In actual practice for me, the plate in the black pan is quite adequate until there is a high volume of 380 causing congestion, never happening to me so far. Removing the aluminum plate to get the 380 off the black plate has never been a problem. I think they state it as too dramatic. If I wanted the few 380s to fall through, I could use the blue or yellow bowl, but the black bowl is the exact size to catch 380 and let 32 and 22 fall through. I don't use a bucket under the bowls but I could, if it was a mess of dirt and who knows what.

 

[kerreckt]

When reloading 9mm I can feel the difference when I pick up a .380. I then set it aside. That is my sorting method.

 

[JO JO]

Here is what I do

 

[alexcue]

I have the sorting insert for .380's and it's not worth the money. In fact, I do better hand sorting, or using my Berry's brass sorter, than I do with the bucket sorting trays. There's not enough room between the three inserts to make it usable, and the Berry's is adjustable and faster to use.

Here's the link: https://www.berrysmfg.com/item/rotary-brass-sorter

Hope this helps.

Fred

Been using mine for a couple of months now. The .380 sorter works pretty damn good for me. I make sure and not overload it but it keeps them above while the .380's fall out. No adjustment needed for me. So far no .380's are ending up in my XL650 casefeeder, while before i had some rude surprises in my sizing die.

 

[Rule3]

Here is what I do

That is pretty darn cool

 

[rondog]

Here is what I do

Sometimes the obvious is the hardest to see! Now I've got to score me some trays like that! I may have some already, but no doubt I've passed over hundreds in the trash cans at the club.....

 

[FROGO207]

I also separate when I size/decap the 9MM brass and there is no doubt when you find a 380 in the die. I set them aside and size a run of 380 when I get 100-150 that are in a pile. FWIW I have about three 5 GAL buckets of cleaned/sized/deprimed/belled 9MM brass ready to load, sorted by head stamp in bags of 400 units. There will be no 380 in there I assure you.

 

[evtSmtx]

I sort them with my dillon 650. the ones that jump off the shell plate and spill powder are .380s

 

[jmorris]

Before I built my sorter I was able to load a few I missed hand sorting and would catch them case gauging.

One day I set the powder measure so it wouldn't drop into the shorter 380 case, then I could catch them at station 3 of my 650.