Re: More important - OAL or weight of brass
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: treedoc</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Chris:
For example, if I have 100 pieces of .308 brass - lengths 2.010-2.015; would you have 5 groups to the .001 or 2 groups to the .002? </div></div>
I like Mitch's ranking just above.
I'm not to anal any longer about brass length and if I'm within .005" from the low to the high, I'm not worrying about it too much.
If you've taken the time to measure and segregate that brass into groups of 2.010", 2.011", 2.012", 2.013", 2.014" and 2.015", you might want to place them in order, into your two 50ct boxes and shoot short to long, but you'll no doubt have odd numbers.
This is the problem with weight sorting and bullet OAL sorting, you'll need a larger sample size to get the batch amounts you plan to shoot. You'll never get things dead even and you'll have stragglers to deal with which will drive you nuts.
If you had them all trimmed to 2.010", you could then weight sort them, but for anything less than competition shooting, I don't think differences of +/- .0025" is going to matter too much.
Find a bullet/powder/primer combo that gets you decent groups, then fiddle with COAL/OAL seating depths and tune it further. Prep your brass and trim it uniformly, if you want to go 'full retard' and then worry about practicing your aim.
We all have limited 'free time' and one has to pick and choose his targets. Ideally, it's all exactly the same from one cartridge to the next, but this requires a lot of time to realize.
Chris