Fast And Friendly 5.56 Brass Qualifier Speeds the Reloading Process

In 2012, Bill Birmingham of Farmington, Missouri, founded a company—Fast And Friendly Brass—to process and sell brass in the St. Louis area. In two years, the company was selling brass nationally. But in late 2015 Birmingham changed the direction of his company in order to focus on a bigger need in the market—better tooling and equipment to improve the efficiency of reloading and brass processing. Since then, the company has become an industry leader in high-quality products to make reloading more precise and efficient. Its latest innovation is the 5.56 Brass Qualifier, a machine designed to speed up the processing and the reloading of 5.56 ammo.

“Every commercial brass processor and reloader knows that sorting good 5.56 brass from bad is the absolute worst part of the job,” says Birmingham. “It is mind-numbing work that can be hard on the hands and even harder on the eyes. Our machine automates this job, reducing the time it takes to get good brass ready for loading and speeding up the production. It also cuts costs and provides uniform quality of brass.”

The 5.56 Brass Qualifier can be tuned to allow or disallow any diameter neck size, depending on how tolerant the particular press or other equipment is to misshapen brass. The machine automatically rejects blanks, cases with crushed necks, and live ammo, though it will not check for case dents or sort by headstamp.

A single 5.56 Brass Qualifying machine can check up to 12,000 cases per hour, limited only by collator speed. For the best results, pairing the Brass Qualifier with the Fast And Friendly Brass Collator gives you the ability to produce at higher volumes. (fastandfriendlybrass.com)