Shell Sorter Review
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Like I said in my Brass Wizard review, one of the things I dislike doing is sorting brass for reloading. It’s not that hard or troublesome if I sort it after every range trip, but I tend to procrastinate and never attempt to sort out my brass until I have a 5 gallon bucket overflowing with casings…
Until recently there were no good shortcuts to sorting brass. You just had to dive in and look at each head stamp, and then manually throw each case into its own bucket. Luckily some smart gun guy came up with a faster way.
Today's review is on the shell sorter - an ingenious device to sort brass quickly by size
To me, one of the great things about guns their preciseness. There is not a lot of grey area when dealing with guns, they either are loaded or they are not. The round has the correct amount of powder or it doesn’t. For a guy that tends toward approximation and it is good that I have one precise hobby to keep me balanced. Guns are something that keeps me understanding that some things are black and white with no wiggle room for feelings. It is this level of preciseness which allows the brass sorter to work.
Each round has a specific measurement. Each case has a proper length and its case mouth has a specific diameter. By machining slots in a rigid container that are slightly smaller than a cartridge’s case size you can create a device that allows and object smaller than the specified cartridge to fall out of the container, while retaining the case it was designed for.
By creating three different colored containers each designed for common caliber dimensions, you can use them in series to quickly sort out a large quantity of mixed brass.
The yellow sorter is cut to allow anything smaller than a .45 acp round to fall through so it collects anything larger like: .45 acp, .45 gap, .50 ae, .243, .308, 7.62x39 and .45 lc
The next size is the blue sorter, and its cut to allow anything smaller than .40 to fall through, so it collects .40 and 10mm. Because of the size of the rim of the cases .357 magnum and .38 spl cases are also collected.
The black is the smallest and it allows anything smaller than 9mm to pass through so it collects: 9mm, 38 super, and .223. If you buy the additional .380 aluminum plate, this black sorter will also sort .380
If you sort your cases before you clean them, then it is pretty easy to separate those nested cases where loose 9mm sometimes slips inside of a .40 casing. Actually, they tend to come apart on their own if you shake the sorter hard and long enough. If you tumble them before sorting, loose media can jam a 9mm into the larger .40 case tight enough to cause problem separating them.
The fastest way to use the sorter is to place the black sorter over the top of a 5 gallon bucket, then insert the blue sorter into the top of the black one, top the blue sorter with the yellow sorter and then dump a couple handfuls of cases into the yellow sorter and shake the bucket unt
Like I said in my Brass Wizard review, one of the things I dislike doing is sorting brass for reloading. It’s not that hard or troublesome if I sort it after every range trip, but I tend to procrastinate and never attempt to sort out my brass until I have a 5 gallon bucket overflowing with casings…
Until recently there were no good shortcuts to sorting brass. You just had to dive in and look at each head stamp, and then manually throw each case into its own bucket. Luckily some smart gun guy came up with a faster way.
Today's review is on the shell sorter - an ingenious device to sort brass quickly by size
To me, one of the great things about guns their preciseness. There is not a lot of grey area when dealing with guns, they either are loaded or they are not. The round has the correct amount of powder or it doesn’t. For a guy that tends toward approximation and it is good that I have one precise hobby to keep me balanced. Guns are something that keeps me understanding that some things are black and white with no wiggle room for feelings. It is this level of preciseness which allows the brass sorter to work.
Each round has a specific measurement. Each case has a proper length and its case mouth has a specific diameter. By machining slots in a rigid container that are slightly smaller than a cartridge’s case size you can create a device that allows and object smaller than the specified cartridge to fall out of the container, while retaining the case it was designed for.
By creating three different colored containers each designed for common caliber dimensions, you can use them in series to quickly sort out a large quantity of mixed brass.
The yellow sorter is cut to allow anything smaller than a .45 acp round to fall through so it collects anything larger like: .45 acp, .45 gap, .50 ae, .243, .308, 7.62x39 and .45 lc
The next size is the blue sorter, and its cut to allow anything smaller than .40 to fall through, so it collects .40 and 10mm. Because of the size of the rim of the cases .357 magnum and .38 spl cases are also collected.
The black is the smallest and it allows anything smaller than 9mm to pass through so it collects: 9mm, 38 super, and .223. If you buy the additional .380 aluminum plate, this black sorter will also sort .380
If you sort your cases before you clean them, then it is pretty easy to separate those nested cases where loose 9mm sometimes slips inside of a .40 casing. Actually, they tend to come apart on their own if you shake the sorter hard and long enough. If you tumble them before sorting, loose media can jam a 9mm into the larger .40 case tight enough to cause problem separating them.
The fastest way to use the sorter is to place the black sorter over the top of a 5 gallon bucket, then insert the blue sorter into the top of the black one, top the blue sorter with the yellow sorter and then dump a couple handfuls of cases into the yellow sorter and shake the bucket unt
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