Tony's Bullseye Blog: Repost: Consistency: The Product of Adhearing Together

Personally, I found myself with an absolute ton of .38 Spl cases--a few thousand. After cleaning, I sorted them by brand only (which isn't really much of a sort) into a few plastic jars about the size of coffee cans. I've got marked jars for Winchester, Federal, Remington-Peters, and Everything Else, plus a couple more partial jars of nickel'd Winchester, Federal, and Everything Else.

I don't think I gained a lot in accuracy (I'm only shooting these out to 17 or 25 yards), but the finished product looks very neat. There's much less variation in case-to-crimp groove.

I prefer Winchester brass above all others. R-P tends to have a soggier-feeling primer pocket. I don't know exactly why exactly I like the Federal less. Probably no particular reason. It took time to sort this way, but since my .38s are only going into revolvers, I only had to do it once.