Screens for sorting mixed pistol brass

[Grey_Lion]

I sort with the Mk 1 eyeball under good light and feel it is important to do so as it's an important part in weeding out damaged cases unsuitable for reloading. I pull steel and aluminum. I remove debris that might otherwise damage cases. I pull the 9mm and .380 out of the .40s and 10mms - I pull the .40s out of the the .45s and that doesn't even begin to touch the oddball foreign stuff and .22s. I have found nails, screws, small rocks, glass fragments, bunches of target fragments, rubber backstop media, lead bullet fragments, bullet jacket fragments, porcelain polishing pellets, dirt, ash, bugs I could go on..... and yes - most of this was indoor range brass. Pulling this out has saved me many a decapping pin replacement.
I sort under good light in shallow storage tuppers. Most I do at a time is about 1.5 gallons of mixed range brass.

Hand sorting is something I find as part of a good safety routine to ensure I'm not putting powder in a damaged and unsafe case.

 

[zeke]

jmorris just made my day! If there was enough ranges/brass scroungers in the area, might make money with that machine.

Am using the slotted sorters and 5 gallon buckets. Works pretty well, but fairly slow.

 

[LBussy]

I sort with the Mk 1 eyeball under good light

Why do something for free when you can pay good money for a gadget to do it for you??!

I sort mine by hand as well, but I have used those sorter screens. If you agitate and sort if swish things around with your hands you do get to separate the brass, get a good overall look at he condition, and have the opportunity to weed out aluminum, steel, etc.. It's not like it completely removes the operator from the equation, it just makes the operator a little faster.