Buying 9mm brass.

[stchman]

I don't reload 9mm, but I do know people that do. My question is, why would anyone buy 9mm brass when all the ranges have it scattered across the floor in large quantities? I have several hundred cases from picking out the stuff I want.

The few people I know that reload 9mm have buckets full of the stuff.

 

[film495]

I did because I wanted a volume of it, and it was cheap and easy, and now I have what I wanted and can do something else with my time.

 

[epags]

I don't reload 9mm, but I do know people that do. My question is, why would anyone buy 9mm brass when all the ranges have it scattered across the floor in large quantities? I have several hundred cases from picking out the stuff I want.

The few people I know that reload 9mm have buckets full of the stuff.

Perhaps they don't live where there is a range and perhaps, if there is a range, the range policy is that the fired brass is the property of the range.

 

[Mk-211]

Use to buy it for $10/1000, now it's $30-40/1000.

If people would pick up their brass and reload it. The price would crash and come back to normal.

At one time I had a few thousand reloads and at least 10K pieces of brass. Now I'm good with a couple thousand reloads and a couple thousand pieces of brass.

 

[stchman]

Perhaps they don't live where there is a range and perhaps, if there is a range, the range policy is that the fired brass is the property of the range.

I have heard that there are ranges like that, but I thought it was mostly Fuddlore.

 

[ballman6711]

The outdoor public range I go to is hit or miss with brass. I've gone out there to shoot and sometimes it looks like a war zone there's so much brass. Most times there's very little brass to be found. I went about a week ago, and there were plenty of shotgun hulls, 22lr brass, steel and aluminum cased stuff, and not much else.

I know there's at least one guy that goes out there just to pick brass. He's an older guy, and says he doe's a very small amount of reloading, but he will pick up every piece he can find except the 22lr.

chris

 

[stchman]

The outdoor public range I go to is hit or miss with brass. I've gone out there to shoot and sometimes it looks like a war zone there's so much brass. Most times there's very little brass to be found. I went about a week ago, and there were plenty of shotgun hulls, 22lr brass, steel and aluminum cased stuff, and not much else.

I know there's at least one guy that goes out there just to pick brass. He's an older guy, and says he doe's a very small amount of reloading, but he will pick up every piece he can find except the 22lr.

chris

During periods of panic buying, the local DOC ranges near me, people go out there with 5 gallon buckets and sweep all the brass up.

 

[ballman6711]

When I lived in Northern Va there was a range that didn't want you to pick up any brass because they would sell it. They never had a problem with me picking up mine since I reloaded, but they didn't want me picking up anyone else's. Of course any brass that went forward of the shooting line was unrecoverable. I used to figure about a 5-10% loss of brass per trip.

I bought bags of 45acp brass when I started reloading just because I didn't have any.

chris

 

[Howa 9700]

Seems to me what is needed for ranges.......both public and private.......indoor or outside........where semi autos are being fired and brass is sent flying........is to have what amounts to a catch bin alongside the shooting bench or line where you stand. Idea would be for the brass to be captured, then funneled into a hopper or bucket to either be sold or recycled. No bending over or crawling around on the ground to scrounge it up. There is an outdoor range near here I go to and where high volume shooters gather, the ground is covered with brass of various size.......but also how long they been there. Some from same day.....others been there a while and been rained on and covered in mud. It's all mixed together. Hate to leave it laying, but if not mine, that juice is not worth the squeeze.

Don't know how well they work, but Midway sells a set of size filter baskets to sort calibers.

Catch em all, filter them all and then bag them or bucket them and then sell them.

 

[tightgroup tiger]

All the indoor ranges around here own the brass that is past the front of the shelf your standing at, out on the shooting floor.

If it's on your side of the line, you can pick it up and take it with you. You can't reach out past the line, onto the shooting floor due to insurance regs.
I think it's fair, if I back up one step in my lane and all my brass lands beside me instead of bouncing off the shelf out onto the shooting floor.
So I get most all of + some.

I bought it when I started loading 9mm, just to get an inventory started.

 

[CQB45ACP]

When I lived in Northern Va there was a range that didn't want you to pick up any brass because they would sell it. They never had a problem with me picking up mine since I reloaded, but they didn't want me picking up anyone else's. Of course any brass that went forward of the shooting line was unrecoverable. I used to figure about a 5-10% loss of brass per trip.

I bought bags of 45acp brass when I started reloading just because I didn't have any.

chris

One of us was the other’s doppelgänger

 

[GeoDudeFlorida]

I bought some once just because I got sick of dealing with ants, spiders, dirt, rocks and cigarette butts in with my brass. Then people started giving it to me by the bucket full mostly de-bugged and I gave up buying it. I still hate going through my brass and finding butts, pebbles and such but, ce la vie.

 

[ballman6711]

One of us was the other’s doppelgänger

We've probably met or at the least shot next to each other. I used to try to go to Elite on Sunday mornings at opening because they would have lanes available. If I waited until 10 or 11 there was usually a wait. I worked at the Lowes right there at the time, and would get out at 3pm M-Th, and 2pm on Friday, so I would sometimes go after work and beat the evening crowd.

chris

 

[CQB45ACP]

We've probably met or at the least shot next to each other. I used to try to go to Elite on Sunday mornings at opening because they would have lanes available. If I waited until 10 or 11 there was usually a wait. I worked at the Lowes right there at the time, and would get out at 3pm M-Th, and 2pm on Friday, so I would sometimes go after work and beat the evening crowd.

chris

Could very well have. I got there at 830 as they opened doors and let folks shoot as soon as the registers were ready. Remember those? Cash registers?

BTW, I’ve heard it was a shady buy out deal to get rid of one more range.

 

[ballman6711]

Could very well have. I got there at 830 as they opened doors and let folks shoot as soon as the registers were ready. Remember those? Cash registers?

BTW, I’ve heard it was a shady buy out deal to get rid of one more range.

I use to get there about 8:45 or so, 9am at the latest.

Hadn't heard about the "shady buy out deal", but it wouldn't surprise me given the political views in NOVA.

chris

 

[film495]

I've been to an indoor range, where the RO against the range policy, looked the other way while we collected a bunch of brass. He pointed at the broom, told us how to do it, called a cease fire and went to the bathroom. If I recall correctly I just wanted to have some samples of cases that I'll probably never shoot - worked out good IMHO. Funny what people will do for you if you're nice enough to ask and act respectfully toward them.

 

[Blue68f100]

The range I shot at allowed us to pickup our brass but preferred that we did not pickup others. They sold the brass to help fund the place. All the old geezers shot weekdays (Tue) early in the morning when the range opened. Since most of us hand loaded, we always checked what the other was shooting to help keep track of the brass. I used a brass catcher so mine was fairly easy. There was always a few newbie's shooting too. I always helped them out so they would improve. Most would collect their brass and dump it into my catcher. During hard times the only ones shooting were the ones hand loading. I moved away from the area about a decade ago and have not been back since.

 

[243winxb]

why would anyone buy 9mm brass

Brass of the same lot, manufacture is "almost always" more accurate then range brass of different head stamps. All cartridges.

The firearm must be match grade, accurized , to make use of match ammo. Then theirs the person firing the gun. Human factor.

 

[dartor]

There is definitely no shortage of 9mm brass. I collect 2 to 3k at the outdoor range I shoot at every weekend. I'm considering selling it for $2.00 / lb. Haven't made up my mind yet if it would be worth my time.

 

[GeoDudeFlorida]

I notice none of the folks who make money selling brass online have chimed in. !!!

 

[9mmepiphany]

My question is, why would anyone buy 9mm brass when all the ranges have it scattered across the floor in large quantities?

Perhaps not directly addressing the intent of your question, but related to why people will buy 9mm

I have a shooting buddy who picks up all the brass on the the ground at out outdoor Action Pistol bays. He has a motorized depriming setup and another motorized roll sizer...about 3500/hr. He wet tumbles, deprimes, and roll resizes 9mm brass and sells it to local USPSA shooters for $300 per 5gal bucket...and sells all he has available. That is how he paid for his motorized Mark 7 Apex-10, the roll sizer, and decapper.

The reason they buy it is because they buyers don't want to have to gather their brass at matches and don't want to clean or process it. All they have to do is expand, prime, drop powder, seat bullet, and crimp

 

[Caplock]

I can't help myself. To me it's like gold nuggets all over the ground.

 

[tightgroup tiger]

I can't help myself. To me it's like gold nuggets all over the ground.

I know, right!

 

[NMexJim]

I can't help myself. To me it's like gold nuggets all over the ground.

In the shotgun world, they call us hull collectors "hull whor++ or bid divers". Gold nuggets indeed. You reload 9mm for the same reason you reload 12 ga. Better control than you can buy. The only ammo I buy is carry ammo.

 

[JHTexas]

I have purchased pistol brass for what I consider to be my higher end target rounds.
9mm, 45acp, 10mm, 357 & 44 magnum.
I also like to do my best at collecting them too!