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Precision Hand Loading For Long Range-Chapter One: Brass Sort & Prep By Tres MonCeret
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<blockquote data-quote="Pdvdh" data-source="post: 384248" data-attributes="member: 4191"><p><strong>Re: Precision Hand Loading For Long Range-Chapter One: Brass Sort & Prep By Tres MonC</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Hi Chas1,</p><p>Yes, that is the method on a fired case with the spent primer left in place.</p><p></p><p>Truth is I don't do this as a matter of practice because it's a long tedious process. As Tres suggested, I also simply weigh brass cases as a compromised effort to ID and sort brass, but I only expect to be able to identify gross outliers using this technique. The direct correlation of brass weight to interior case volume is simply lacking for purposes of accurately identify small variances of internal case capacity... in my opinion. </p><p></p><p>My practice is as follows: I'll weigh prepped empty brass and if I find 3 or 5 brass cases out of 100 with brass weights significantly different that the remaining 95 to 97 brass, I'll examine those outliers and see if there's anything obviously amiss. I once found a large piece of curly-qued brass inside a case that caused it to weigh significantly more than the average recorded weight. I never could figure out how it might have gotten in there, but there it was. I snaked that curled shaving of brass out with a skinny pick and then that case weighed about the same as the rest in that batch. So there's one example where simply weighing the cases led to identification of a reject casing. Sometimes I'll reject and discard these outliers. Sometimes I'll mark these outliers and use them for clean bore fouling shots only. Or I may, in the future, then take these cases and compare water-filled capacity (weight) to a couple of the 'normal' brass-weighed casings from that batch. </p><p></p><p>However, if I was a seriously competing in competition where 1/2" at 1000 yds was the difference between winning and losing, I would weight sort my brass by water capacity, knowing that water capacity is a true and accurate reflection of interior case volume. Sorting by brass weights does have the potential to identify a seriously reject piece of brass, as in the personal example/experience I provided above. But it's an inferior technique for purposes of identifying minor, yet common, variances of interior case volume. </p><p></p><p>Hope this helps explain my point-of-view.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pdvdh, post: 384248, member: 4191"] [b]Re: Precision Hand Loading For Long Range-Chapter One: Brass Sort & Prep By Tres MonC[/b] Hi Chas1, Yes, that is the method on a fired case with the spent primer left in place. Truth is I don't do this as a matter of practice because it's a long tedious process. As Tres suggested, I also simply weigh brass cases as a compromised effort to ID and sort brass, but I only expect to be able to identify gross outliers using this technique. The direct correlation of brass weight to interior case volume is simply lacking for purposes of accurately identify small variances of internal case capacity... in my opinion. My practice is as follows: I'll weigh prepped empty brass and if I find 3 or 5 brass cases out of 100 with brass weights significantly different that the remaining 95 to 97 brass, I'll examine those outliers and see if there's anything obviously amiss. I once found a large piece of curly-qued brass inside a case that caused it to weigh significantly more than the average recorded weight. I never could figure out how it might have gotten in there, but there it was. I snaked that curled shaving of brass out with a skinny pick and then that case weighed about the same as the rest in that batch. So there's one example where simply weighing the cases led to identification of a reject casing. Sometimes I'll reject and discard these outliers. Sometimes I'll mark these outliers and use them for clean bore fouling shots only. Or I may, in the future, then take these cases and compare water-filled capacity (weight) to a couple of the 'normal' brass-weighed casings from that batch. However, if I was a seriously competing in competition where 1/2" at 1000 yds was the difference between winning and losing, I would weight sort my brass by water capacity, knowing that water capacity is a true and accurate reflection of interior case volume. Sorting by brass weights does have the potential to identify a seriously reject piece of brass, as in the personal example/experience I provided above. But it's an inferior technique for purposes of identifying minor, yet common, variances of interior case volume. Hope this helps explain my point-of-view. [/QUOTE]
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