Armory Sponsor
| Depends on how much brass you are sorting. I usually save up a 5 gallon bucket before sorting. With that amount of brass, a $40 investment in those sorters was soooo worth the time savings. If you are picking up range brass then you'll want to get the 380 plate as they are hard to distinguish from 9mm. Also watch out for 10mm, 38 super, 357 sig... These sorters aren't magic, but they do speed up the work. |
|
I thought they were over priced until I got given 5 5 gallon buckets of range brass for free. There was no way I was sort all that by hand. Worth every penny.
9mm and 223 will stick inside a 40 case 40 357 sig and 10mm will stick inside a 45 cal case (45a,45lc,45-70....) The only difficulty I had was the brass was 50% 40sw. So the medium sorter would get filled very quickly and the smaller stuff could not get through. You just have to play with the amount of brass that you put in. |
|
Well worth the money. When you have three brass monkeys who earn their ammo by policing up brass, you end up with all sorts of stuff.
I'd hate to wade through 2-4 gallons of brass by hand. I start with the 45 screen, pick out the large rifle cases and the 45's, screen for 40, screen for 9, screen for 380, all the while picking out the rifle stuff that shows up. A good bucket of brass now takes me maybe 30 minutes or so to sort. Semper Fi |
|
I use them after first thinking they were gimmicky, they're not. I have the 380 plate as well. Forget about using all 3 plates at the same time, the best method is to use the large plate all by itself for the first pass, then the second, then the third. Check out this now archived thread http://www.ak47.net/forums/t_6_42/342747_.html&page=1 Keep in mind the shellsorter will only sort brass based on size, for mixed brass you'll still need to for example - the 45 ACP from the 45 LC - any 10mm from the 40SW - 223 from the 9mm/380 - run another pass using the 380 plate to separate the 380 from the 9mm - separate the 38 spcl from the 357 Tips: - .223 cases dont fall thru as easily as 9mm/380 - don't overload the trays else the ones that need to fall through the slots will be blocked by the ones that are too big to fall through the slots - you'll get a lot of cases stuck in other cases which have to be pulled apart by hand, e.g. 40SW in 45 cases, 9mm in 40SW cases, etc - shaking and pouring all that brass makes a racket! Very noisy The shell sorter won't sort by headstamp nor weed out berdan primed cases for you, but it saves a lot of time! |
|
Quoted:
I use them after first thinking they were gimmicky, they're not. I have the 380 plate as well. Forget about using all 3 plates at the same time, the best method is to use the large plate all by itself for the first pass, then the second, then the third. <snip> Tips: - .223 cases dont fall thru as easily as 9mm/380 - don't overload the trays else the ones that need to fall through the slots will be blocked by the ones that are too big to fall through the slots - you'll get a lot of cases stuck in other cases which have to be pulled apart by hand, e.g. 40SW in 45 cases, 9mm in 40SW cases, etc - shaking and pouring all that brass makes a racket! Very noisy The shell sorter won't sort by headstamp nor weed out berdan primed cases for you, but it saves a lot of time! I have one and it certainly makes life easier. I haven't tried your method of separate passes, but will do so next time out. Thanks for that tip! |
|
I have SO'ed IDPA matches and it seems like I am always on the stage where competitors shoot from inside the car. So all the brass ends up in the car. The guy who did my scorekeepng for me was just getting started in reloading and IDPA. So at the end of the match, I broke out my plastic shell sorters and a big plastic rubbermaid storage tub. I let him collect up all the brass and sort it while we went from stage to stage tearing down. He had all the brass sorted and ready to take back home by the time we got done. So probably about a half hour. A hundred something competitors over two days shooting something like 14 rounds each, plus, plus. So probably close to 1,500 cases.
The .380 sorter is actually a flat metal plate that has been milled or machined just so to let the .380's through. You drop that into one of the other sorters. I guess they couldn't get the tolerances close enough using plastic. |
Armory Sponsor