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19 December 2004, 02:45
Tailgunner
Re: Sorting brass
I think your right Stepchild.



Beemanbeeme and Poletax

She say's "thank you" for your comments.
19 December 2004, 02:35
DigitalDan
The best technique I'm aware of is to take the cell phone to the range, place an order with Natchez while you're waiting for the Sweets to do it's job. Comes already sorted, bagged and clean. Impresses the wife how that happens, just like magic!
19 December 2004, 02:10
Puncher
I think I got about 2K of '06 and about the same in .223.Of the rest of the calibers I shoot, I prob'ly got between a hunnerd and a few hunnerd. I don't pick up brass anymore 'cause I don't NEED no more!
17 December 2004, 17:16
scotty
Just an idea that occurred to me:
What about a motorized casefeeder such as a Dillon or something similar? I realize their purpose is to turn cases of a given caliber right side up and feed them down a tube, but they have different plates for different size brass. Obviously it couldn't sort .270 from .30-06, but I wonder if one would work to at least sort brass into groups of differing size? Maybe someone who has one can give it a try.
Like I said, just an idea.
17 December 2004, 18:33
F6Hawk
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Just an idea that occurred to me:
What about a motorized casefeeder such as a Dillon or something similar? I realize their purpose is to turn cases of a given caliber right side up and feed them down a tube, but they have different plates for different size brass. Obviously it couldn't sort .270 from .30-06, but I wonder if one would work to at least sort brass into groups of differing size? Maybe someone who has one can give it a try.
Like I said, just an idea.



I thought about that, but the issue there is that if you had a feeder that had many sizes in it to sort the brass, nothing would stop a .32 from falling into a 9mm slot. And if you started small and worked up, you would have to have several case feeders (not cheap!), dumping each one into a successively larger one.

Also, while I commend you on how well you raised your wife, I don't imagine she'd smile too much when you came home with 50,000 rounds for her to sort....
18 December 2004, 06:24
F6Hawk
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This is perplexing because once you get them all sorted out you're apt to just get them mixed up again, especially if you use a tumbler to clean your cases. I'd suggest you weigh all your cases in a given caliber once, toss out the heaviest couple and the lightest couple as well. The remaining ones will probably be rather uniform in weight. I don't really think you can do much better short of resorting to child labor or slavery. Admittedly it's a chore. Best wishes.

Cal - Montreal




They won't get mixed up again. I will clean them by caliber.

What I am referring to is sorting between .22 to .44 Mag shells, predominantly 9mm & .40... Trying to do it by hand is a painstaking process.
17 December 2004, 23:22
Cal Sibley
This is perplexing because once you get them all sorted out you're apt to just get them mixed up again, especially if you use a tumbler to clean your cases. I'd suggest you weigh all your cases in a given caliber once, toss out the heaviest couple and the lightest couple as well. The remaining ones will probably be rather uniform in weight. I don't really think you can do much better short of resorting to child labor or slavery. Admittedly it's a chore. Best wishes.

Cal - Montreal
18 December 2004, 12:44
Sanman
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Mus' be sump'm wrong wit me. I enjoy sortin' brass.





Me too I sort mine by calibers I use, calibers I will be using someday and calibers I might use someday My first hour at the range is spent walking around and picking up brass, if I get there early enought to beat the other brass hounds that is.



Rick
19 December 2004, 00:53
Tailgunner
No, she either uses HER Citori or HER 44spl (which she keeps loaded and ready next to the bed) to warn off intruders.
Did I mention that she used to shoot skeet, and likes to hunt deer (with HER 7mm-08)?
19 December 2004, 01:00
stepchild 2
Tailgunner,
This looks like extreme envy to me.I'm thinking neither one of them would have the balls to say that to her face.
Stepchild
19 December 2004, 00:29
LockandLoad
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My WIFE sorts out any range brass I bring home Got to love a good woman.

She also cleans the loading room (primers on the floor etc), boxes ammo, de-cosmolenes milsurp rifles, dosn't complain about my cleaning rifles on the dinning room table, helps skin, gut, and process game, points out stray cats that need shooting, etc




But will she swim 50 yards with a duck in her mouth when the Labrador isn't feeling well????



Does she bark at night to repel wannabe intruders?