Weight Sorting Brass Variance?

[Utah Shooter]

Looking at starting some new loads for 5.56 LC brass. Just curious to all those who weight sort their brass. What variances are you looking for .05 grains or????

 

[DocB]

Re: Weight Sorting Brass Variance?

U.S,

0.5 grains will work, 0.05 would be overkill. Don't forget to uniform the primer pockets, either. A light neck turn helps get a consistent crimp if you crimp.

HTH,
DocB

 

[Utah Shooter]

Re: Weight Sorting Brass Variance?

Oh yeah. I meant .5 grains. .05 would be almost impossible.

 

[sherlok]

Re: Weight Sorting Brass Variance?

It's been my experience that case weight has no statistical correlation with case capacity at least with military brass.

I have more acute problems with bullet length variations and hence cartridge overall length variations even with match bullets. My time is better spent measuring and sorting supposedly high quality bullets before loading them.

Another pain in the butt step in the quest for small groups.

Good luck.

 

[Tripwire]

Re: Weight Sorting Brass Variance?

With brass from the same maker, and the same lot, a tuned load via OCW and strict attention to TIR will net more positive results......

 

[Coletta]

Re: Weight Sorting Brass Variance?

I have always used a 1% variance