Brass Segregation

[Boogie]

I know that most if not all of you (myself included) who have more than one rifle in the same caliber keep your brass segregated so the same brass is used in the same rifle every time. I understand the brass is fire formed to each chamber and you want to make sure it is only used in that chamber "if" your neck sizing only. But is there any advantage to doing this if you are full length resizing and setting back each time? Would there be a loss of accuracy by firing the same brass in different rifles when it is FL resized. When you FL resize aren't you basically returning the brass back to SAAMI specs for new brass or am I missing something?

Just for the record, I'm still going to keep the brass fired in my savage separate from the brass fired in my Remy. These questions are to further my education in long range shooting.

 

[justinbaker]

I know that most if not all of you (myself included) who have more than one rifle in the same caliber keep your brass segregated so the same brass is used in the same rifle every time. I understand the brass is fire formed to each chamber and you want to make sure it is only used in that chamber "if" your neck sizing only. But is there any advantage to doing this if you are full length resizing and setting back each time? Would there be a loss of accuracy by firing the same brass in different rifles when it is FL resized. When you FL resize aren't you basically returning the brass back to SAAMI specs for new brass or am I missing something?

Just for the record, I'm still going to keep the brass fired in my savage separate from the brass fired in my Remy. These questions are to further my education in long range shooting.

when your full length sizing (for one rifle) your not necessarily returning to sammi specs, your wanting to push it back just enough to feed reliably in that rifle.

so if your going to do it for multiple rifles, then you will need to find which rifle has the tightest chamber, and bump it enough for that one. then it should work in the other one as well.

Now i dont know how much accuracy would be affected, but brass life may be diminished, if your over sizing for the second rifle.


hope that makes sense, and my terminology may be off, but thats the general idea

 

[Beluebow]

Depends on the headspace of each rifle and how much your setting the shoulder back.If you have one chamber that's max SAAMI spec and one that is min SAAMI spec and your just bumping the shoulder back .001-.002 on the max chamber it may not allow you to close the bolt in a min spec chamber.Clear as mud?

 

[Victor N TN]

Even among benchrest chambers. They're always small differences. I segregate everything I want accuracy from. I use different colored "Sharpie" pens and color the extractor grooves after they are loaded. This makes it a little easier to keep separate.

Good luck.