Re: sorting brass, different lot numbers?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 300sniper</div><div class="ubbcode-body">it's not that i didn't like tripwire's answer, it's just that his answer had nothing to do with my question. without knowing who he is or what his winning status is for 1k yard matches, just saying that he doesn't believe in weighing brass isn't helpful to what i was asking. if you don't believe in weight sorting brass that's fine but you probably aren't the person i'm looking for to answer the question.
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Your initial post made no mention of shooting at 1K, or 1K matches, or shooting for score at 1K, so we are supposed to, what, assume that?
In fact, it sounded kind newb actually. I don't know you, so you got what you got.........
I really don't care if you liked my answer or not, but if you ask a question about sorting brass you'll likely receive an answer just like mine from someone. My current bottom line judgement of "matters or not" at 1Kish distance is making a clean kill...and I'm not hunting field mice, so take my advice/opinion for exactly what it's worth.
In my opinion, developing a load precisely by the OCW principles and addressing barrel harmonics negates any variance induced by the lesser evil of slight variations in case capacity, for my shooting. IOW, any variation of case capacity that <span style="font-style: italic">might</span> cause an unwanted dispersion from POA is too small in comparison to the inherent tolerance built into precisely addressing the barrel harmonics via OCW.
If it did matter how could it be possible to take three different makes of brass (read three different case capacities) and produce veeeery close to the same results as done with the same make brass. That's something Dan Newberry claimed was possible, and I proved it out for myself when I first looked into OCW a decade ago. I don't have the patience to take this any further into detail tonight, and it's probably not neccessary anyway, but the short answer for the type of shooting I do, is that case sorting doesn't matter to me.
I know it's not winning a 1K match but my latest build will do 1/4 MOA at 500 yards with the 190 SMK, and I've posted a pic several times here of an example of that, and the load is with unsorted WW brass. Have scattered that load all over the center of my 18" steel circle at 1050 yards enough to know it shoots stupid good at 1K too. Same rifle, same load, netted me a cold bore kill at 602 yards this past deer season. Despite taking a high probability quartering away near-side-lung/off-side-shoulder shot, POI was exactly at the POA. Not bragging at all but it supports my position.
Does all this mean I ignore the subject of your question? No, I don't ignore it on purpose, and I do give it a slight amount of thought when I purchase enough brass in the same lot number to cover me for a while; and "old" brass is about shot out and sent to the scrap yard before the issue even comes up.
So no, I don't worry about sorting, that's my answer and I'm sticking to it.......