The Brass Dryer is a high-capacity unit that can dry up to 1000 pieces of .223 rifle brass or up to 2000 pieces of 9mm pistol brass. This dryer can dry your brass cases inside and out in under an hour. The forced air convection heating lessens the chance of watermarks on your newly clean brass. "The recoil bruised my shoulder. The brass shell casings disoriented me as they flew past my face. The smell of sulfur and destruction made me sick. The explosions — loud like a bomb — gave me a temporary case of PTSD. For at least an hour after firing the gun just a few times, I was anxious and irritable." With a few shakes your brass is sorted by caliber. All the trash (e.g. rimfire cases, gravel, dirt, tumbling media) and cases smaller than .38 caliber, end up in the pail. Sorts Shells By Caliber The three main calibers that most reloaders sort are 45 ACP, 40 S&W, and 9mm. The Shell Sorter™ pans are labeled according to those three main calibers. Feb 13, 2013 · According to the Red Book, shell casing were used for cents made 1944 - 1946. However, there simply were not enough to casings available to make even one of those year's worth of the cents. If you can find it, there is a big discussion in a thread somewhere on CT.