Originally Posted by
Oldtimr
You should do more than sort, you should insect the casings as well. I used to load around 500 .38 special ammo weekly, as you reload the brass starts to develope weakness, I cannot tell you how many shells I discovered that had small cracks around the case mouth and I was not loading hot, I was loading wadcutters for target practice.
As SH54 mentioned, you should definitely inspect ANY case that you plan to reload whether it's for a handgun or rifle to insure there are no cracks or splits, swells, primer and/or pocket problems, etc. At the same time in order to be extra safe it's just really a good idea to load by brand so that everything is done the same, especially if you are loading close to max charges.