Do you weigh your brass and how much is no go ?

Theoretically weighing brass sorts the cases by volume with heavier cases having less volume. Unless you are shooting benchrest or long range competition you probably won't tell the difference, in my most accurate rifle I have done this with no appreciable effect.
 
I've tried weighing my brass and sorting. I'm not good enough shot to tell a difference so I stopped. Also weighing the brass doesn't tell you whether the case has more or less volume necessarily. The extra weight maybe in the rim for example. Bench rest shooters weigh and sort theirs maybe for mental reasons knowing they did everything they can control so it depends on what type of shooter you fall into. Xring or minute of ground hog. I weigh loaded ammo just to double check there's powder in each. Happy shooting
 
I do. The sort depends on how many are in the lot. I prefer to make a batch of brass of 500 to 1000 pieces. I use 1 liter plastic pails (coin bins from the casino) and label them in 0.1 gr increments. For a small batch I might use an increment of 0.5 gr.
 
I weigh my brass, but contrary to Ganderite (who is a very experienced shooter) I seperate them into lots based on 1% of wt. If you are shooting .308 then 0.1gn increments are ~1% of wt, but if you shoot a .223 or WSM then the lots will be much different if you use an 'obligate' measure such as 0.1 gn, instead of sorting by a % of total wt.

I know many guys on here say you must measure volume, but I do not see the point, if the brass is thicker and has a smaller volume then it is usually heavier. I shoot F-class and do not know a single shooter either nationally or internationally who measures internal volume. I generally sort 1000 or more pieces of brass for a season, there is no way I am going to fill each one and measure the volume. It may be that some benchrest guys do this, but that is a different game.
 
My brass is weighed because when I started reloading, an article exposed huge consistencies in the weight of brass. With two boxes of "Dominion" .30-06, on box varied 17 grains (186 to 203) and the other 23 grains (183 to 206). Both were from the same lot number and fired from my rifle so 20 were selected giving about a 5 grain variation. I believe it helps.
Norma brass showed tremendous consistency with a 1.1 grain variation in on box, and the second box at 0.8 fit entirely inside the weights of the previous box.
My brass is still weighed and segregated to one grain (plus and minus) or 171 - 173 as an example.
This procedure has been followed for everything from .222 to .338.
As far as weighing water, how does that differ from determining the internal volume of a case when the external dimensions are the same?
 
I never weigh brass for "hunting" ammo.
But for 1000 yard competion, I separate into .3 grain increments.
With Lapua brass, this means a large percentage of the brass falls into one slot.
There are many things that "waste" valuable time.
I prefer to use the time shooting.
Regards, Eagleye.
 
I used to quite religeously, but I only use Lapua brass and it is all very consistent. I now unify the necks and use every piece. Ive won lots and I've lost lots. remember what you paid for my opinion.

For hunting ammo, I just make sure it is the same brand. For varmint hunting, I just make sure it's the right brass for the cartridge I'm shooting - more or less. If you miss a gopher, big deal. Take another shot or wait for the next gopher. go home and enjoy a beer.
 
Once I did the exercise to weight case within the same head stamp, reload a selection of different head stamp the same identical components and test fire them from the same rifle 30-06 . For normal hunting at 100 yrds no appreciable difference was noticed, all shoot within 1.25".
Since I am not a long range shooter and do not enter competition this is the end of my test.
I do separate case by head stamp because I like to have that way but that is the end of it.
 
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