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Brass Prep for 1X brass fired in different rifle
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<blockquote data-quote="QuietTexan" data-source="post: 2531565" data-attributes="member: 116181"><p>Probably too late since you COW'd them. But this is my logic on factory once-fired bolt brass:</p><p></p><p>It is all the same head stamp? Primers in or out? I'd sort by head stamp first, then primer color if they're there, that generally keeps the cases in somewhat in separate lots. Meaning if someone hands me 40 cases in a bag and half the primers are silver and half are brass that tells me they're probably from two 20-round boxes. Not that there's any meaning in the color other than if they break down perfectly it's probably not serendipity. I ask people to keep the fired cases in the boxes before they bring them to me. Doesn't apply if it's pickup brass obviously.</p><p></p><p>Then I might weight sort them. Not that I'm in any way saying weighing cases actually ties to case capacity, but if you identify several consistent weight peaks in the batch there's a decent chance those weights go together.</p><p></p><p>After that do what you did/ what Mike and the others said. Blow them out, size them back, see what they do. If you really want to get peak performance out of them water capacity sort them after they're blown out fully.</p><p></p><p>IMO they'll never be as good as a truly matched set of new brass, but that doesn't mean you can get perfectly useful loads from them. I've been known to shoot brass in multiple rifles myself from time to time. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite9" alt=":eek:" title="Eek! :eek:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":eek:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="QuietTexan, post: 2531565, member: 116181"] Probably too late since you COW'd them. But this is my logic on factory once-fired bolt brass: It is all the same head stamp? Primers in or out? I'd sort by head stamp first, then primer color if they're there, that generally keeps the cases in somewhat in separate lots. Meaning if someone hands me 40 cases in a bag and half the primers are silver and half are brass that tells me they're probably from two 20-round boxes. Not that there's any meaning in the color other than if they break down perfectly it's probably not serendipity. I ask people to keep the fired cases in the boxes before they bring them to me. Doesn't apply if it's pickup brass obviously. Then I might weight sort them. Not that I'm in any way saying weighing cases actually ties to case capacity, but if you identify several consistent weight peaks in the batch there's a decent chance those weights go together. After that do what you did/ what Mike and the others said. Blow them out, size them back, see what they do. If you really want to get peak performance out of them water capacity sort them after they're blown out fully. IMO they'll never be as good as a truly matched set of new brass, but that doesn't mean you can get perfectly useful loads from them. I've been known to shoot brass in multiple rifles myself from time to time. :eek: [/QUOTE]
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