Sorting Brass ?

by Gunner , St Louis, Sunday, February 24, 2013, 08:04 (4236 days ago) @ Warhawk

Maybe, maybe not.......My belief is for general shooting/plinking it really doesn't matter, as long as you have good brass to start with. I would not mix some unknown or crappy brass with good brass. For over 20 years I shot IPSC with a 1911 45acp and sorted, tracked, primer pocket cleaned, calipered every case on every loading, took a long time to load a 100 round. After a while I stopped doing all the extra work and just cranked out ammo on my Dillon, I never saw a difference in accuracy. But I only used good brass, Winchester, Starline or TZZ, if I found some unknown brass I tossed it and I never picked up range brass. Good compenents loaded on good equipment with proper technique equals good ammo.

When I shot handgun silhouettes I usually started the year with a new batch of prepped brass and went thru the whole batch before I reloaded the cases again. Once the cases had 14-16 loadings I started using a new set. The old set was added to the general use bin and never tracked, prepped, trimmed etc again.

Gunner