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Howdy. Yep, I sort almost all of my brass by headstamp. After tumbling (cleaning and polishing), I put them in wood loading block trays (from Midway). I then "paint" them with nail polish - a different color stripe across the head for each different "brand". This does two thing for me - first, it allows me to sort them by headstamp faster and second, it allows me to tell my brass from other's at the range. Although I don't keep an actual count of # of firings, I keep a log of all reloads and part of that info is the brass used. Using that info, I could go back through the log and count the number of times each case has been fired. In the beginning I started to do that, thinking that cases would have a finite life. After tens of thousands of rounds, I just check them for case splits, etc. after tumbling and discard cases that look bad. I have some .45acp cases that have about 30 firings on them. I actually stopped counting at 20. My .38 special should last forever. Good Shooting, Rod.
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