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AzAKguy
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MrD
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 Posted - 11/06/2009 : 07:39:07
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yeah, was curious about these when I saw them in a catalog a couple of weeks ago. I decided I don't have enough mixed brass at any one time to justify the expense.
And in my limited experience, .45ACP and 9mm Luger tumbled together results in a lot of 9mm cases stuck inside .45 cases, wedged with media bits, which problem I don't think the sorter trays would solve unless you shook them REALLY hard. |
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AzAKguy
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Posted - 11/07/2009 : 04:02:21
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MrD
The sorters work great. The trick is to sort by caliber before you tumble it because as you said it is the granuals of the media that gets inside the 45s and enables the smaller caliber rounds to be trapped and neither case to get cleaned.
I come home from the range after a match or a training session and have every kind of brass that you can find on the range in my brass bag. At matches other shooters who are "on brass" pick up whatever they see on the ground when the targets are being taped and scored and you just take what they hand you and throw it in your brass bag and worry about what is what later.
When I get home I dump it all into a 12 quart plastic bin marked "dirty unsorted brass". When this bin gets near full or I need brass of one caliber or another I run it thru the sorter bowls.
The sorted brass then gets put in shoe box size or 12 quart size storage bins that are maked "dirty brass 9 mm", "dirty brass 40", "dirty brass 45", etc, etc.
So I sort the dirty brass by caliber then I tumble only one caliber at a time and then the clean brass gets stored in shoe box or 12 quart sized bins marked "clean 9 mm brass", etc, etc
The sorter is a huge time saver. I figure the $40 is for the funcationality and utility, not the value of 3 plastic bowls.
If you reload in the volume that one has to for competitive shooting they are worth having.
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brass sorting bowls
