The Sorter simply sits on top of a common 5 gallon bucket, with a few shakes your brass is sorted by caliber. The Shell Sorter is comprised of three pans designed to sort several common calibers.

The three main calibers that most reloaders sort are 45 ACP, 40 S&W, and 9mm. We have labeled the sorters according to those three main calibers. The sorters do sort several more calibers! The following chart shows some of those calibers and the sorter pan that they end up in.

Yellow        Blue           Black         Bucket
 45ACP      40 S&W      9mm        22 rimfire
 45 GAP     10mm        380 ACP   17 rimfire
 44 Mag     357 Mag     38 Super     gravel
 50 AE       38 Special  .223           32 ACP
 243 Win                                     Tumbling Media
 308 Win                                      25 ACP
 7.62x39
 45 Colt

The fastest way to sort is to stack all three of the pans together with the yellow pan on top, and the black on the bottom, in that way all your brass is sorted at the same time.