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How great or ok are those sorting trays? Worth the $50-60? Been contemplating them for years.
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When I was really into USPSA and IDPA matches and was RO’ing and SO’ing major/national level matches, those sorting trays worked awesome! All the major matches are known as “lost brass matches”. And since the SO’s and RO’s are all volunteers, it is just ASSumed the brass goes to them.
I remember one major match I was the SO in a car stage. All the shooting by the competitors was done from inside the driver’s seat. So all the brass landed inside the car. The car didn’t have a backseat and all the carpet was ripped out. On the last day of the match, I brought my sorting trays and a big rubber maid tub… maybe some buckets too. When we were tearing down the stages, I turned to my scorekeeper and said “Here I brought these trays and this tub for you. I have enough brass already.” Man-oh-man! His face lit up. I would say in 15 to 30 minutes, he had all the brass out of the car and sorted into 9’s , .40’s , and .45’s ….while I went and tore down other stages. I came back to our car stage and he was already relaxing under this canopy/awning in the shade. He had my trays and tub (and maybe buckets too) all organized and set to get packed up. I was like “Done already?” “A’yup!” I said “That was fast!”
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I used ammo cans. EDIT: .30 cal, .50 cal, fat .50’s
For really bulk stuff over the years that I had collected, I used 5 gallon buckets.
FAKE EDIT #2: I want to say at some point I did use either plastic pretzel tubs that were clear plastic and/or something like those plastic Sterilite storage totes/tubs. And one of them fell off the bench or off a closet shelf , cracked or split open and brass went everywhere.
That said, my 100 year old house’s wood floors have a really good dent in them from when a full .30 cal ammo can came crashing down.