Do you segregate brass between rifles?

[newguy2k3v2]

of the same caliber?

I'm shooting a 700 SPS-V and an Armalite SASS with headspace measurements of 1.625-6" and 1.629-30".

The standard for FL resizing is to bump the shoulder .002" right?

I've only been shooting LC in the ar10 and FC in the 700 so far so it's not hard to separate but if I get in a bind one day I can't run my ar10 loads in my bolt gun.

Would you just size everything at 1.625" and watch for case head separations closer?

 

[Swan]

Re: Do you segregate brass between rifles?

Don't mix brass.

 

[bohem]

Re: Do you segregate brass between rifles?

You'll tend to wear the brass out faster when you size it more than needed. I would segregate the brass between the two rifles. When I was shooting several 30-06's I would run R-P brass through the hunting rifle and Win brass through the target rifle, this way something accidentally put in the wrong bin is easily fixed.

 

[winxp_man]

Re: Do you segregate brass between rifles?

I dont mix my .308 brass or my .223 brass the other I dont have the same calibers.

 

[Queequeg]

Re: Do you segregate brass between rifles?

I have 4 .308s! Three bolts and one AR10. Two of the bolt guns feed from CDI DBMs (A SPS and 10FCP) and I load them longer than the 2.820" I am limited to by the AR or the Blind mag of the 2nd Savage. Other than that, I full length resize my brass so that I can fire it in any one of them, though clearly I have to mind the longer OAL loads which won't run in the shorter magazines.

Other than that, I keep my brass segregated by brand and lots.

 

[5R Milspec]

Re: Do you segregate brass between rifles?

yes I do.been down the old dirty road one time and wish to never go down it again.went to the range one day with my 223 and I brought the 223 ammo for my pistol.loaded or should I say tried to load a round and it would not go.tried again and put to much on the bolt.and yes it was stuck.took me about 30 min to get it out.had to ram it with a rod.and boy was I scared the whole time I was ramming the bullet into the case/bullet.but it came out with out hurting anything.

so now I use different makes of brass when I have two of the same cal.I use Lapua in my bench rifels and rem in my hunting rifels.

 

[treedoc]

Re: Do you segregate brass between rifles?

Keep em' separate.

 

[42769vette]

Re: Do you segregate brass between rifles?

yes i have 2 260s and keep the brass seperate

 

[vman]

Re: Do you segregate brass between rifles?

Keeping them seperate would be the logical thing to do

 

[Greg Langelius *]

Re: Do you segregate brass between rifles?

I keep my brass lots separate, even for the same rifle.

My resizing process has me resetting the dies for each loading, and for each lot, so segregating on the basis of rifles happens anyway.

My dies are set up on the basis of neck tension, and are set according to a pass/fail test process which has given me at least some real means of tracking and managing neck tension based on real conditions, rather than on assumptions or arbitrary settings.

Greg

 

[Victor N TN]

Re: Do you segregate brass between rifles?

I agree with Greg. I looked at your profile and saw you like motor sports. I'll put it something like what you already know.

What you're asking is basically asking is, can I take a piston out of my Ford truck with turbomax diesel and put it in my Toyota Prius?

There might be a way to make it work with a lot of fancy machine work or even melt it down and recast it. But it will probably never run like it should.

I set AT LEAST the brass for my BOLT GUNS seperately. And I too set the dies for each rifle seperately.

 

[shooter308]

Re: Do you segregate brass between rifles?

yes i would never mix good bolt gun brass with a semi auto brass. I wouldnt even mix bolt gun to bolt gun. Plus i neck size a lot on bolt guns so thats another prob for the mixing.