Tired of sorting and weighing little ones!

[KHornet]

The past two/3 days off and on, I have been weighing and sorting little 22's. Don't have exact count, but believe it to be well in excess of 2500. About 1000 of them were the little NOE 37's in both PB and GC. The smallest of the little ones, but they sure do shoot well in the KHornet. Ran probably 800-1000 Lee 55gr GC's, (that average in the neighborhood of 58 gr checked sized and lubed), An then ran 5-600 55 gr. NOE GC's, that average around 62 gr.

A lot of work considering that they all had to be sized, lubed, inspected, etc. before the weighing process began. It will be worth it however, as with these and most likely the other 2500-3000 other 22's I have weighed and segregated (guess that is still a proper word), probably have well in excess of 5 years of 22 centerfire shooting. Might ought to be getting a few bricks of SP primers, and SR primers ahead as well.
Anyhow am glad it is over and done with. My eyes are tired!

Paul

 

[S Mac]

Busy fellow. So you weigh as a last step? I did get a digital scale recently and have embarked on 22 cal weight sorting.

 

[fiver]

visually first then lube/check then weight sort.
some weight before and after to catch any voids, i'll go ahead and toss 5-6 back in the pot and waste the check.
but I'm also the guy talking to the scale telling it to hurry up.

 

[Chris]

I first sort visually... bases, voids, inclusions... and then weigh the rest. When I get really serious I use a little spreadsheet I made to compute mean, SD, SE of weight. Only takes a minute to input a sample. Sounds like a bunch of fuss but it does report objectively my casting precision and improve my casting and lead to less rejects. For me, visual rejections alone are insufficient to make quality bullets. Sure helps to have an electronic scale though.

 

[KHornet]

Yep! If it wasn't for an electronic scale, I would probably not be messing with
a large quantity of anything, 22's in particular.

Paul