After all Prep, Weighing/Sorting Loaded Rounds?

[Grump]

I just remembered a little cheap trick from my smallbore days--some coaches reported getting Eley 10x/RWS R50 accuracy out of lesser brands of ammo by sorting them by weight.

Anyone try that with centerfire reloads? Seems to me that would be quicker and easier than sorting the cases first and then trying to keep then separated during the reloading cycle.

It might not be needed with Hornady or Lapua brass, which I have found to be within 1.0 grain extreme spread in weight in .308. More than one lot of each, too.

Whaddya think?

 

[Leaddog]

Re: After all Prep, Weighing/Sorting Loaded Rounds?

Sort by case capacity. Sorting .308 loaded rounds will not give you the consistency you are looking for.

 

[steve123]

Re: After all Prep, Weighing/Sorting Loaded Rounds?

Personally I'd say to weight sort the brass cases. I do this after all the brass prep is done.

Some people sort by water volume. Too me it's a hassle to do that. So I use a electronic scale because it's quick.

If you want to get more anal then sort the bullets by bearing surface length, weigh sort and point the meplats but for anything except "top level" benchrest or F-class it's totally unnecessary.