After you've sorted bullets for length...

[jackbrownii]

So, I sat down last night a sorted a box of 175 SMKs with my new Sinclair sorter. My question is this: How do you all store the sorted bullets?

I ended up putting them into snack size zip lock bags with the lengths marked on the outside with a Sharpie. It seems ... overly improvised.

Thoughts?

 

[Chfcemerson]

Try going to your local "good" fishing tackle store. There you will find individual plastic tray containers that have adjustable size compartments with small insertsble dividers. These trays are made to slide into tackle boxes and they come in several different sizes.
Glenn

 

[Chappy]

zip lock tubs

 

[timeout]

My take is a bit different.
The first bullets that I ever sorted were Sierras. I had so many different lengths that I felt I must be doing something wrong. My next batch were Bergers. The Bergers netted 98 percent one length. My solution was not a way to store eight different lengths, but rather to ditch the Sierras and switch to Bergers. Problem solved! I have no financial affiliations with Berger.

 

[Jason Boersma]

I store all my sorted bullets in old bullet boxes and wright What they are on the outside of them.

 

[Archer]

zip lock tubs

You find the best supply of these at your local dollar store...work great, I place a post-it note inside that way the next time I sort I can reuse the tub even if the length is different.

 

[SWRichmond]

I sort into a tackle-box tray with compartments, and then move the contents of the full compartments into saved empty bullet boxes and write on them what they are. I do this while watching TV with Mrs SWRchmond, and hope the clunk clunk clunk doesn't drive her nuts.

 

[DHuffman]

I started buying Micrometer seating dies. Set about .010 short of where you want to be base to ogive, measure to see where you're at then dial it up and seat to desired depth. Beats measuring and sorting bullets hands down if all your sorting for is length.

 

[Dusty Stevens]

I started buying Micrometer seating dies. Set about .010 short of where you want to be base to ogive, measure to see where you're at then dial it up and seat to desired depth. Beats measuring and sorting bullets hands down if all your sorting for is length.

How does that get a shorter bullet to shoot the same as a longer bullet?

 

[M-61]

Maybe I am missing something but my concern is base to ogive.

When the groups are sorted, placed in Ziplocs with the dimensions on paper in the bag

 

[DHuffman]

My concern is case base to ogive so I can set my distance from my ogive to my lands consistently every time. I don't really care what my bullet base to ogive is, within reason. This has been the only way for me to achieve any consistent seating depth without measuring and sorting through every bullet.

I realize there would be more benefits to be gained by loading sorted groups of same bullet base to ogive length bullets as well as sorting by weight as well as sorting cases by weight as well as trimming and measuring cases for different values also. I'm not far enough advanced of a reloader to do all that and don't feel the need when I can make loads that are sub .5 MOA almost without fail and usually in the .3 to .420 range I even managed a group in the low .1s the other day @ 400 yards. I think me & my shooting technique and equipment are the limiting factors to me being able to shoot smaller than .35 ish on a regular basis not my reloading or bullet seating procedures.

This has worked well for me for the price of a $70 Forster Micrometer Seating die I would rather spend time shooting than measuring & sorting bullets.

 

[broncman]

+1 Creed!

I quit sorting base to ogive....I now sort from seating stem to ogive. Personally I feel that is more important than where the base is.

I feel that having better and consistent control on the "jump" does more for me than a thou or two of difference in base to ogive.

I made a jig that actually uses my seating stem from the seating die.

 

[DHuffman]

I don't do anything with them except pick them up out of the box and start them in the neck a good ways, then I pull them out and measure with a comparator case base to ogive then I do the math to get them to the desired length, dial it in on the micrometer and seat.

I guess I'm still measuring the round but it eliminates all the sorting and need for containers. It may not be the OCD way to do it but I'm happy with the results I'm getting so far.

 

[jackbrownii]

Thanks for the ideas, gents. Things to contemplate.

 

[fourpower]

So, I sat down last night a sorted a box of 175 SMKs with my new Sinclair sorter. My question is this: How do you all store the sorted bullets?

I ended up putting them into snack size zip lock bags with the lengths marked on the outside with a Sharpie. It seems ... overly improvised.

Thoughts?

I was doing the same thing and had box all over the place! as I had a very accurate rifle I was trying to get everything the same as possible. was checking to ojive and the worst was speer next hornady barnes all bad! next checked weight same thing way off! then I tried bergers and problem solved. 98% of box of bullets were right on ojive and weight was so close I quit checking!