About the only thing I look out for is junk brands like amerc or those stupid small pistol primer .45acps
About the only thing I look out for is junk brands like amerc or those stupid small pistol primer .45acps
I bought the inserts to use my Ruger 44 Mag on the Ransom Rest our gun club had. I contacted Ransom and got instructions. The results were less than impressive, I out shot it offhand. I could find nothing wrong with the Rest, double checked the instructions. Maybe 44 is too big for it? Maybe I missed something but if they were all that great I think we would see more people using them.
Mal
Mal Paso means Bad Pass, just so you know.
Most of the time no , but when the load starts getting to the high end of the chart yes , I'll sort .
Jack
Buy it cheap and stack it deep , you may need it !
Black Rifles Matter
Yes, particularly for chronograph.
Shiloh
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Thanks for the replies . A lot of good info here.
For M-TECS : What group size are you getting at 50 yds with revolvers??? I'd probably get minute of target. THANKS
For THREE44s: I'll trim these so I don't have to fiddle with the crimp die.
For Lloyd Smale: I agree that shooting is A LOT more fun than loading.
Thanks
JAMES
JAMESGR
JAMESGR,
That’s the idea!
Best regards
Three44s
Quote Originally Posted by Bret4207
“There is more to this than dumping lead in a hole.”
I always sort my handgun brass. For caliber only. I do not shoot good enough to bother.
For 50 yards and beyond most of my serious revolver shooting is done with jacketed bullets with the exception of lead bullet 38/357 used for NRA Bullseye competition. If I can't get sub 4 inch all cylinder used groups it goes down the road. Consistent groups of 2" to 3" groups at 50 are very repeatable. With my 460 S&W and one of my Dan Wesson 15-2's that is very doable at a 100 yards. With 6 shot revolvers' it's common that one or two cylinders will not group with the rest.
That being said I have never grouped some of my fixed sight SASS revolvers. Once I have them shooting to POI testing is done since speed is mostly the name of the game and targets are very close and large.
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- Wayne Dyer
I sort all brass for handguns & rifles by headstamps and lot # if possible .I use a certain brand of brass for a particular load as I have several loads using the same .
I do sort rifle brass by headstamp and pistol when I have little else to do. I shoot rifles with scopes so I can see the difference. Pistol shooting is much less precise. My ophthalmologist tells me that there is no purpose of changing my glasses until he removes my cataracts. That was last year and I'm still waiting.
Wayne the Shrink
There is no 'right' that requires me to work for you or you to work for me!
For handguns it is a waste of time for the vast majority of guns, shooters, and applications. I used to do it until I started shooting a lot. If I still shot Bullseye, and had the skill I had 40 years ago, I would sort for the 50 yard stages and competitions....but not for practice ammunition. Back then, I only shot CIL wadcutter cases so no sorting was needed.
I do not hunt with a pistol. I use factory ammunition for SD, and the rest of my shooting is plinking/target shooting.
It is typical to follow the advice of gurus in the gun rags as gospel. IMHO, they are either anal, or do not shoot a lot if they sort pistol brass. There are some brands, like S&B, that give me trouble but they are culled when I buy brass. Once brass has been loaded once, I never worry about headstamps again unless I am developing a new load for the pistol carbines that are used up to 100 yards.
Don Verna
I am a Plinker, If I can hit what I shoot at I am happy. I sort by Caliber not head stamp. The only thing I sort by Head Stamp is my Milsurp 30-06. A lot of it is from the early '50s.
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |