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DukeConnor

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If you take one each of 9mm, .40cal and .45 acp brass, and toss them in the air. They will fall to the ground, perfectly nested, and impossible to separate.


I have come to this conclusion after sorting close to 1000 range brass pick ups.
 
Lol! This is a fact.

I swore 40 was the bain of all reloading and never a case should pass over my threshold to inject its self into my reloading room.......then the wife got a .40. :rolleyes:
 
Don't ever put them in the tumbler together.

Nested is note the word, super glues id more like it.

Only once.
 
One tip I'll pass along, if you can call it that. If you get some where you just can't get the 9mm brass out, just use an inertia bullet puller to knock it loose.
 
With the help of my son, we got them all seperated and started tumbling. I am definately a range brass rat. The range I was at has more brass laying on the ground than I have ever seen. It is literally 2 inches deep over 20 benches. Thousnds of handgun and rifle brass everywhere. I am seriouly thinking of going back with a shop vac.
 
YOU ARE NOT WRONG, OR ALONE!

I don't know how they do it, but there is some yet undiscovered law of the universe that states if any brass will jam into another, a strong molecular attraction happens!
Scientists should look into that!

I STILL have jammed brass laying on the bench that I believe will wind up in the scrap brass bucket...
Was supposed to be 9mm & .45 ACP, but had a little of everything in it,
So about 1/3 is nested like a JB Weld advertisment!
 
I once tossed a load in. A .32 nested in a nine. the nine in a forty. the forty got caught in a pair of .45 that sealed it at both ends.

Pile it all into a machine that vibrates it and it is almost certain that a smaller diameter object will reach a larger diameter hole, and enough shaking will push the tiny grains of media out and push the other case deeper. It's amazing what shaking can do.

Marilyn vos savant once declared that a washer can turn a sock inside out. In over fifty years, I have never had a sock turned inside out in the laundry. I have had hundreds, if not thousands of pieces of brass lock themselves together.
 
OMG I tossed all three in my tumbler once , ONCE ! Got two others you don't want to do . 9mm and 308 in a wet tumbler . The 9mm fits over the neck perfect and seals the water in only to poor out later when spreading out to dry .

Also 45acp and 223 in a wet tumbler , Some were so locked together I just tossed them . I like the idea of the inertia puller though .

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after a few rounds of picking apart cases, I just started sorting. I never loaded anything but 9 and 38. It wasn't until I started tossing everything in together when I started working with my brother that I started swearing at the brass until the paint peeled. It's no big deal to pick apart a few. When I would run 100 or so of his brass with my own brass that jt became a real aggravation.

It was completely worth the extra few minutes to prevent the extra fifteen minutes shaking, pounding, and eventually noodling them apart with needle nosed pliers.

The problem may disappear completely if small grain medial like finely ground cob or nut shell could be replaced with the big chunks of nut.
 
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