When reloading for a rifle do you seperate brass by headstamp?

[Gunner11]

Picked up some factory sako 308 loaded rounds in original boxes at a sale for $5 a box Bargan!, shot fine though 15+yo, when i tried reloading them with my std heavy load 42 gr 748 under a 180 speer it fills the cases to the top of the neck!. My other brass is rp, lapua, privi and federal (im a bit of a magpie for spare cases) and have never noticed a problem. Will save them for varmit loads. I do keep track of the number of firings, only neck size and case length gauge every 3 firings.
I guess if the powder fits shoot it.

 

[Hondo 60]

Absolutely!
I wouldn't think of mixing headstamps for rifle cartridges.
I don't even like mixing straight-walled handgun cases.

 

[Horsemany]

I don't even mix brass of different lots!

 

[Cmeboston]

For those who separate, do you have different loads for different cases? Do you go ad far as using different powders in different cases? There are so many variables it is mind boggling.


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[x_wrench]

Y E S ! i also weight them and sort them that way as well. unless they are to be loaded as "plinking" rounds. then i just pile in a set amount of powder, and seat a bullet. anything other than plinkers, accuracy is king. so i take all the steps to ensure that everything is as close as humanly possible. i do every trick i can, weather the rounds are for target shooting, or hunting. even though it would be a cold day in he** before i would shoot an animal in the eye at any real distance, i like all of my ammo to be that accurate. if i could find a quick way of measuring the internal case capacity of each case, i would do that. but the only way i have of doing it take a long, long time to do. and i do not have THAT MUCH time on my hands!

 

[Canuck-IL]

do you have different loads for different cases?

I'm not quite sure what you mean by that query ... if I have some 223 cases from Lapua which are distinctly heavier than a batch of LC, they'll get a different load.

Similarly, 2 different rifles in the same caliber may well prefer a different loading of the same or a different powder.

Mind you, those are both on the OCD end of the continuum ... high power shooters have long ago demonstrated that there are a handful [of less than absolute max] of loads with which any decent service rifle will shoot X-ring at 600 yards ... time spent tinkering with such loads is better spent on the line rather than obsessing over loads.
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[P-32]

Like many others I seperate. I shoot Lake City brass most of the time, I seperate by year as well.

Mind you, those are both on the OCD end of the continuum ... high power shooters have long ago demonstrated that there are a handful of loads with which any decent service rifle will shoot X-ring at 600 yards ... time spent tinkering with such loads is better spent on the line rather than obsessing over loads.

A true statement.

 

[dude_clutch]

I'll set aside any high quality rifle brass for golf ball shoots. these get separated by head stamp and weight

otherwise it's only separated by caliber

 

[James2]

NO!