Keeping brass separated

[DaveA37]

Like many of you, I have numerous "fired" cases and attempt to keep them separated by the number of times they have been fired. This can be a tedious task when one shoots a lot.

I was wondering what you do to keep the cases marked and/or separated?

 

[Elkman]

I try to keep them togeather in the same box throught the life of the case. I am very poor at tracking the number of firings so I let the cases tell me when its time. When one are two are showing signs of detoriation the whole box goes. I do not shoot very many at any one time so its easier for me!!!

 

[AzDak42]

For my hunting rifles, it's one gallon hefty freezer bags in a plastic storage bin.

I label them with masking tape like this: "Nosler 7mm-08 - Fired X".

 

[HTDUCK]

I try to keep them togeather in the same box throught the life of the case. I am very poor at tracking the number of firings so I let the cases tell me when its time. When one are two are showing signs of detoriation the whole box goes. I do not shoot very many at any one time so its easier for me!!!

Same here.
I have spent a small fortune on plastic 50 round flip top boxes too !

 

[Guest]

I've come to using Folgers & Maxwell House coffee containers (post-coffee, obviously). I label them with masking tape, and just make a tick mark on the jug as to how many times the brass has been fired. I never have more than two jugs at a time, for each lot of brass, and cycle all the virgin brass to 1x, then cycle all the 1x to 2x, and so forth. Seems to work so far. I used to use freezer bags, but they kept falling all over the place so I switched to these stackable plastic canisters.

 

[CatskillCrawler]

I keep brass in 1 qt ziplocs with a piece of masking tape on the outside denoting, "22-250 WIN A/B/C/D/etc...". I then count on the tape the # of times they have been fired with hash marks. Every 5 firings I anneal and designate that with a red slash after the fifth hash mark.

 

[DrMike]

I keep brass in plastic ice cream pails marked with the number of firings.

 

[woods]

Next step after depriming is to mark the heads with an electric engraver

It will leave a tiny groove

which I then fill with a permanent marker

Doesn't matter whether that case was part of a larger group that was only partially shot, taken on a field trip and not shot or a whole box of mixed brass gets dropped , I can always resort by firings

Thinking of trying a spring loaded center punch to see if it's faster

 

[C.Smith]

woods, that is a great idea I might have to steal that idea from you.

Corey

 

[HomerOz]

G'Day Fella's,

DaveA37, if you have the time to do this and you enjoy keeping track of things, go for it!

Personally, even in my precision BR type rifles these days, I just batch load them all and if a few cases start to get split necks, I then anneal the remaining cases.
I will try to take a few images of the cases I load a lot!
They say a picture is worth a thousand of these black squiggly lines!!!

Doh!
Homer

 

[meatmachineman]

Thinking of trying a spring loaded center punch to see if it's faster

That's a great idea!!! I've got one sitting in my tool box doing nothing... I may need to put it to good use.

 

[HomerOz]

G'Day Fella's,

Using your Auto-Center Punch, put the strike marks at the bottom of the extractor groove!
You may need to re-grind the tip of the A-C Punch, to get right to the bottom.

Hope that helps

Doh!
homer