Range Brass

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bandmiller2 posted this 09 September 2015

At my club almost no one reloads and their is a plethora of brass to pick up. How do you fellas inspect range pickups.?? I have a commercial ultrasonic cleaner and then just give them a visual. Just before hunting season is the time to pick up 35 remmy brass, glad I found a goodly supply. Frank C.

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TRKakaCatWhisperer posted this 10 September 2015

About all I check for is boxer/berdan priming.

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gpidaho posted this 10 September 2015

First a quick visual inspection, damaged brass into the recycle bin. Second, I always deprime my brass in a separate step before cleaning and if the primer seems loose they go to recycle also. Every month or so the scrap brass is sold and a case of beer follows me home. Win, Win Gp

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TRKakaCatWhisperer posted this 10 September 2015

gpidaho wrote: First a quick visual inspection, damaged brass into the recycle bin. Second, I always deprime my brass in a separate step before cleaning and if the primer seems loose they go to recycle also. Every month or so the scrap brass is sold and a case of beer follows me home. Win, Win Gp Interesting concept:  to establish the cost of beer in pounds of brass.  ;)

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Dirtybore posted this 01 November 2015

1967 Happy Hops beer was $0.75 a six pack in San Diego. Sailors will drink anything alcoholic. A half rack of Alaska Amber runs around $14 now. It really depends on what kind of beer follows him home.

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Mustafa Curtess posted this 02 November 2015

The above thread points up my situation - which has become something of a quandary. I have maintained an unusually nice private range for the past 16 years, and pick up all brass except 22RF - for several reasons. First of all: It borders on Sacreligious to discard (even to re-cycle) once-fired cases.  In addition to all that I had already accumulated, a long-time CBA member passed away and instructed his estate that  I was to have everything in any way connected to reloading - which doubled my problem. Typically, “once-fired” is reinforced by the condition of the brass, plus the packaging it came out of being in the trash cans. . For a while, I just de-primed the cases and returned them to their packaging - until I ran out of storage and shelf space. I shoot only CB's, at load levels which rarely damages or weakens the cases I use over & over for generally 20 cycles or more. For my own use, I sort by head-stamp, fire-form to my chambers, then neck-turn and trim cases to chamber length, and finally weight-match.. But in addition, I accumulate cartridges in chamberings which I consider useless for CB's. I long ago gave up keeping the maddeningly ubiquitious mil-spec and commercial 223 - which went directly to the scrap metal buyers. Some of that has been re-formed to more useful cartridges like 7mmTCU, 30-223, etc - but there again: supply greatly exceeds demand. But other bullet casters whose opinions I respect and whose suggestions I follow, tell me to keep everything in anticipation for the day when Wash. D.C. will perpetrate a permanent ammo crisis. Meanwhile, I'm getting older - and storage space is nearly full. 300 Win Mag brass makes perfect 458 Win Mag brass, but there again: Supply vastly exceeds demand. (And with CB loads, 458 WM case life is as good as indefinite.) It is depressing to consider that eventually it will all go to a land-fill - and my dedication and good citizenship efforts will be for naught.

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gpidaho posted this 02 November 2015

Mustafa: Package it up in 500 round bags and put it up for sale here or over at Boolits. I've seen some of the more desirable calibers go for a good price. I'd be glad to see 444 Marlin, 30 Carbine and 357 max come up for sale. Gp

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Mustafa Curtess posted this 03 November 2015

Thanks for the suggestion.  Unfortunately 444, 30 carbine, and 357 max. are cases I have had to buy for myself.   What I have is mostly 243 win, 308 win, 30-06 (like one would expect). Lesser amounts of other deer cartridges like 270 win, 25-06, 30-30 win, 22-250, nothing very exotic. One exception is that I've collected exactly as much 7.62 x 39mm as I need a few years ago when US made cases  were common briefly. 

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