Mark K
Active Member
How do you-all sort range-pickup handgun brass?
It's easy to sort out .45 ACP (which I do reload), and .40 and revolver ammo (which I don't).
The issue of course is 9mm vs. .380. What I do is take about a hundred at a time, and stand them all up on the reloading bench mouth up. I then push them together so they're all touching; it's fairly easy then to separate the cases that are 2mm shorter.
But once in a while a .380 case will slip through with its 9mm buddies. Most of the time it'll prime just fine in a 9mm shellholder. I've always found them in the next step when using an expanding die -- the .380 cases feel quite different than the 9mm ones, and I can separate them out then and keep the primed cases until I'm loading .380.
I don't think I've ever gotten as far as trying to seat a 9mm projectile in a .380 case...
Other than checking each headstamp, anyone have a better technique?
It's easy to sort out .45 ACP (which I do reload), and .40 and revolver ammo (which I don't).
The issue of course is 9mm vs. .380. What I do is take about a hundred at a time, and stand them all up on the reloading bench mouth up. I then push them together so they're all touching; it's fairly easy then to separate the cases that are 2mm shorter.
But once in a while a .380 case will slip through with its 9mm buddies. Most of the time it'll prime just fine in a 9mm shellholder. I've always found them in the next step when using an expanding die -- the .380 cases feel quite different than the 9mm ones, and I can separate them out then and keep the primed cases until I'm loading .380.
I don't think I've ever gotten as far as trying to seat a 9mm projectile in a .380 case...
Other than checking each headstamp, anyone have a better technique?