Seperating Brass

[Zamble]

Is it worth the effort to separate brass? I started doing my .223. I was initially curious about what the majority of headstamps would be.

I am still waiting for my 1050 and I know it will swage the brass for me when I get it. So am I being OC?

[sjd78]

I don't separate the brass by head stamp. I guess if you were into bench rest shooting it might be worth it. Otherwise I wouldn't worry about it.

[mindwreck]

Lake city goes in 1 pile. everything else goes in another. I only reload to plink but I have so much lake city that i decided to separate it.

[Full Clip]

Yep, the precision shooter will not only sort by stamp, but by weight of each case...
Takes OC to another level.

[Zamble]

Thanks.

I realized that the majority of the brass I bought was PMC, FC and LC. With a one gallon bag of misc headstamps. lol

[savagemann]

It doesn't really take all that much time, so I usually sort it out by headstamp.
Just sorted about 2000 pieces of .223 this evening as a matter of fact.
Took about an hour.
Last week I sorted a couple 5 gallon buckets in an evening.
That got a little old towards the end, but now I have brass all ready to load for quite some time.

[stilly]

Is it worth the effort to separate brass? I started doing my .223. I was initially curious about what the majority of headstamps would be.

I am still waiting for my 1050 and I know it will swage the brass for me when I get it. So am I being OC?

If you are just plinking with the stuff then yes. You should go full OCD though and mutter things to yourself as you are doing it.

I think that there is no real need to do that because as someone who often DOES suffer from trying to over categorize everything, I can say that it might just be a lot of time spent for very small ROI.

Now if you are going for them long shots, like 600+ yards, then by all means, get your brass as close as possible in weight and headstamps, but plinking, NopE...

[SonofWWIIDI]

Don't bother! Spend the extra time reloading and shooting it!

[GeoffLinder]

If you are reloading for accuracy segregate by batch and weight. If you are reloading for general blasting, just lump it and load with mid-range powder charge values and be done with it.

[J-cat]

Some PMC commercial cases weigh 88 grains. Some PMC military cases weigh 103 grains. I always find brass whose rims are partially torn or whose caseheads are about to seperate.

[afrancke]

Yes, you should separate them if they're yours. If you're doing range pickups or other peoples' brass collected at random then maybe just keep all of that segregated from the brass you loaded from scratch or after firing factory ammo whose provenance you know. Range pickup brass seems to be the kind of thing you'd want to limit to lower pressure plinkers in any case.

[M27]

I am OCD and sort all brass by head stamp . Then again I clean all my brass with stainless media and after it is loaded I wipe off all of the fingerprints before putting in storage.

[Munk]

For my plinkers, there's only sorting by caliber.

For anything I want to be a bit more accurate, I keep all the brass of that box together, and tumble that box by itself. No sorting needed since it's one-box-in, and one-box-out. While I resize that box, I have the next box tumbling, and I get my powder thrower setup (If I'm loading that day, rather than just doing case-prep). Then I pull the second box out of the tumbler, toss the first one in to clean off the lube, and resize the newly-cleaned second box. I carry on like that until I have them all clean, resized, and cleaned of lube.

[NotEnufGarage]

LC in one bucket... .223 Rem into another bucket... all other 5.56 in a 3rd bucket....

.223 brass gets loaded with 55gr for plinking
Other 5.56 brass gets loaded with 62gr for plinking / SHTF
LC gets separated by weight to the .1 grain range and used to load SMK 69's and Hornady 75's for long distance shooting.