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Sorting pistol range brass

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OnTheFly:
Thanks for the input guys.  My thought was that for "Bulls Eye" reloaders probably go through much of the detail work that rifle shooters do to get that rifle & round combination that will shoot the left wing off of a fly at 100 yards.  But for those that are plinking/action shooting out to 25 yards and reloading 10K plus rounds per year, this just is not anything that I have heard of people doing.

Fly

JTH:

--- Quote from: Mudnrox on September 02, 2014, 08:02:01 PM ---For Bulls eye, you may want to check all of those things, but for action pistol type of matches and practice all of the brass works the same.

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Pretty much.  To the level of accuracy needed (we do occasionally shoot out to 40-50 yards, but not on a bullseye target) brass differences affect accuracy significantly less than my poor trigger control does---enough less that I don't worry about it.

I dump all the brass in and reload it, regardless of source.  Reload over 20K a year.

Lorimor:
Sort out lesser calibers.  :)  then wet tumble, dry and load. 

Rinse, repeat. 

Don't care about headstamps too much.  But I will immediately toss any and all AMERC brass into the junk pile upon detection.

noylj:
There may be some effect for rifle cartridges being fired at long distance, but I have never found any effect with any pistol out to 50 yards--so, no, I found it to be a complete waste of time.
However, if it makes you feel better, it may give you a confidence edge to shoot better.

OnTheFly:

--- Quote from: noylj on September 13, 2014, 04:47:50 PM ---There may be some effect for rifle cartridges being fired at long distance, but I have never found any effect with any pistol out to 50 yards--so, no, I found it to be a complete waste of time.
However, if it makes you feel better, it may give you a confidence edge to shoot better.

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Thanks for the input.

I guess I should have explained why I was asking this.  I posted a question on a national forum about a reloading issue I was having with new bullets.  One of the other forum members started dogging me about my many faux pas in reloading.  He insisted that one of them was that I did not sort brass by headstamp.  My impression was that hardly anyone was doing this except for someone shooting Bullseye or similar.  He insisted that everyone should be doing it. 

I think he was insulted when others gave me suggestions on what to look at and they were correct, but he told me what the problem was and I told him he was wrong.

Fly

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