Home Forums Reloading Big Game Rifles How to mark brass to segregate for two rifles same caliber???

If the chambers are different enough to require different die settings, then I use different brands of brass and have separate FL dies, one per rifle.

Mostly I try to avoid having more than one rifle in a given caliber at a time.

Tom

I too mark the ammo boxes. There is never a need to sort them there after.

You could get two different colors of plastic ammo boxes from Midway. They sell smoke, blue and red colored 50 rd boxes.
Otherwise I use Federal cases for one rifle W/W for the other and Remington for the third. Lake City for the AR-15.
I have four .223 rifles and this is how I do it.
I use small base dies for the AR-15 and full length everything else. I shoot 40 gr V Max in my Winchester Model 70, and the kid likes 50 gr Speer TNT. The AR-15 likes 52 gr Sierra Match Kings.
I flip flop back and forth with the other rifle. It looks like a twister went through my loading area some days. I don't care for ice fishing anymore and our winters are long so I have the time for messing around.
whelennut

Orion2000 had it right... In order to keep my brass separate I found a chemical for blackening brass at my hobby store and I soak the brass for one rifle in this for a few seconds and tumble it. There is no doubt which rifle that brass belongs to.

You can use any of the cold bluing chemicals to blacken brass, but they are fairly expensive. If you Google �blacken it�, you will come up with a chemical used to blacken items for hobbyists. It is also used to antique brass for old house remodelers. There is a similar chemical used to blacken the copper used in stained glass. I find that after a good degreasing of your brass, a quick dip in this stuff and then a rinse in cold water is all that it needs. Then, 15 minutes in the tumbler gives you a darkened, but clean brass that is very easy to separate from another rifle�s bright brass.

7 - .308s??? Wow!
How do you decide which to take?
I am sure they all shoot well if you handload.
Do you use days of the week? Monday=#1, Tuesday=#2, etc?
I am truly impresses!

I mark the rim with a small cut from a Dremal

I use those plastic flip top ammo boxes that hold 50 rounds. When one is empty, just put the next full one in its place while you reload the 50 cases from the one you just used up. I prefer loading 50 at a time versus 10 or 20 at a time here and there.

Sweet Jesus folks continue to [bleep] baffle me on how complicated they make things. A dremal tool, TFF.

Federal cases for my 30-06, and WW for the wife's 30-06. Works fine.

In the past, I have used nickel brass for one rifle and standard for the other. When I used the same type brass, I took a colored sharpie, say red, for example, and went around the primer in the cartridge to mark those loaded for rifle "A". Left the others without the red ring for rifle "B". It requires a visual check, but it was effective.

One Brass, One Nickel, or One Win, One Rem. I have several rifles of the same caliber and both work fine.

Shipster