When to Weight Sort

[58weasel]

Am getting some 6BR brass (Lapua & Norma) to form into 6BR-DX and into 30BR.
In my reading on the site seems some sort first, others sort after all the work is done;
particularly as to neck turning.
I only turn my necks to smooth out 50-75% of the circumference; so I'm nearly at "no turn", particularly with the Norma brass. Any suggestions on how to begin with this brass?

The 6BR-DX and 30BR are but "gleams in my eye"; but my grandchildren are with me and well.
So my plan is to introduce them to precision shooting via a Russian pellet rifle, then CZ 455 (22LR), then said CZ with Lilja "drop in", then 30BR with break & sound suppressor on my 228 yd bench, then 6BR-DX on my 510 yd bench, then at last a 284 Win on my 800 yd bench.
Then they'll inherit not only precision rifles, but the American Heritage of straight shooting, and rifle precision.
We must find our way within the family.

 

[dkhunt14]

It is nice to introduce the youngsters into shooting. Its hard to do now days with all the video games and computers. I weigh first before I do anything. I believe that if the weight is close so will the capacity. I shoot 1000 yard BR and have never seen a shot go out because of a case. Our shots are all spotted or marked on a plot sheet so you would know from match to match. I always shoot the same case in the same order so I know if the case is bad. Matt

 

[58weasel]

Got to thinking and found in my notes where I had weighed a 3 new Hornady 223s before and after my conservative turning regime with camferring. The nearly 95 grain cases dropped only 0.1 to 0.14 grains. Not enough to really change their weight half-grain weight class. So it seems I should weight sort the 6BR brass before doing anything, and put the heavier cases into the 30BR pile. Using a half-grain weight class, I would have to buy 400 pieces of Lapua brass (based on some 223 Lapua brand I have purchased in the past) to get a 100 in one weight class. Maybe that's why they don't weight-sort at the factory. Nosler may change Lapua's mind about that in due course. Where would we be without competition?

Am wondering if I should broaden the weight class to a full grain. That would save a lot of buying "marginal" weights.
Even at that what do folks do with all that brass outside a standard deviation around the mean? Let the novice shooters use it I suppose.

Matt, I appreciate your comments about keeping track of the cases. There was a single "outlier" in a 50 piece carton of Nosler brass; after neck turning, it ceased to be an outlier, but I suspect it will shoot markedly different. Probably should have put it in the "marginal" category. I've marked my cartridge boxes and want to keep them in order, as you say, but that will break down once I toss them into my tumbler for a cleaning after a few uses.

The case weight business is new to me as I only got a milligram balance last year. Those lots of brass I had were all over the map even within a particular headstamp. A real eye opener.

About bringing the kids along, this takes patience and consistency (as usual). When the weather is good, and the grandkids are with me, we go outside and shoot a bow and arrow. Or make a game out of the hitting targets with the pellet gun. Beat grandpa. Which isn't too hard for them. It is more than teaching them something, it is allowing them to experience a superior "life style" as they say today. A better way of living. The older and more sophisticated they become, the more sophisticated the shooting they can do.

It is just part of being around Grandpa on the farm.

If there is no grandpa and no farm, improvise and use whatever "field expedients" may be available.