By saying it's bad, are you saying that sorting every caliber by headstamp isn't - normal?
I find it addicting when I hit a jackpot - FC, FC, PMC, FC, FC, Tula, Fiocchi, FC, Tula, NOSLER! (sweet), FC, PMC,....
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I find it addicting when I hit a jackpot - FC, FC, PMC, FC, FC, Tula, Fiocchi, FC, Tula, NOSLER! (sweet), FC, PMC,....
Yep, brass collecting was a necessity to save money I did not have.
AJC1
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When you load 20 calibers it gets bad... 38, 357, 9mm, 45acp, 45c, 223, and on and on. Almost everyone loads mixed headstamps.... I never do.By saying it's bad, are you saying that sorting every caliber by headstamp isn't - normal?
packetloss
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I still have plenty of primers that I bought for $32 per brick. With that being said, I just picked up another 5K for $70 per brick (shipped). I use RMR that I purchase in bulk for just under 10 cents per round. Powder is less than 2 cents per round.
You can get Ginex, and Fiocchi primers for $62 per brick shipped. I don't really need more primers right now, but if I couldn't get CCI for $70 shipped, I'd buy either Ginex or Fiocchi for $62.
Brass monkey, brass chicken, and in another post, "brass buzzard" was used. I think these terms have derogatory connotations that really shouldn't apply to how we describe ourselves or relate to. I proffered in another post "brass lynx"
. Stealthy, patient, ready to pounce when the brass is separated from the herd and abandoned by its previous owner; then moving back into the darkness to process the prey, alone, in my den, during the icy cold of winter.I think we should reserve the derogatory terms for those lacking patience who take brass from the rightful owner prior to obvious abandonment.
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have you thought about digging a hole and burying it? here me out.
put the brass in a Home Depot bucket with the gaskets lid. Put a layer of caulk around the lid. Dig a shallow hole, put honey bucket in. Should be good for a few years.
I consider myself as a brass whore....I don't have a problem with that.Brass monkey, brass chicken, and in another post, "brass buzzard" was used. I think these terms have derogatory connotations that really shouldn't apply to how we describe ourselves or relate to. I proffered in another post "brass lynx"
I think we should reserve the derogatory terms for those lacking patience who take brass from the rightful owner prior to obvious abandonment.
Calm down, you’re fine. It’s the holiday’s, think about those worse off than you.
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Seeing that, I’m not fine. I feel completely under prepared. 10 boxes with roughly 2,900 lbs of brass each. 72 cases per pound is over 2 million cases. Assuming 2.5 seconds per case with my primer crimp reamer chucked in my battery drill, that’s about 174 8 hour days. Unfortunately, I don’t have enough weekends and vacation to cover that, so I’ll just have to spread it out over - oh, I don’t know- the rest of my life?!
AJC1
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With primers being ten cents each, you won't have time off to reload as you'll be working to buy components 100 years after you die.
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Yeah, when you are loading very much, you are not going to spend 2.5 seconds a round just to swage. You won’t even be spending that amount of time loading them (including swaging them before the priming station).
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And if you have the amount of brass in that photo I posted earidler, you don’t even have just one of the machines in the video above but a room full of them and employees.
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Brass Hawk, Buzzard, Turkey… nah. I like to be the Jackal at a feast of lions. Dive in and get my belly filled.
I was texting with my boss earlier letting him know I will work from home tomorrow so I can sign for my Powder Valley order. We started chatting about our next neighborhood shoot and I asked him if he had any brass he didn’t want from the trip he took down south. I learned a long time ago: in this world, if you don’t ask, you don’t get.
He’s bringing in a few bags of .38 and .357 Monday.
BE the Jackal.
I was texting with my boss earlier letting him know I will work from home tomorrow so I can sign for my Powder Valley order. We started chatting about our next neighborhood shoot and I asked him if he had any brass he didn’t want from the trip he took down south. I learned a long time ago: in this world, if you don’t ask, you don’t get.
He’s bringing in a few bags of .38 and .357 Monday.
BE the Jackal.
I have always referred to scrounging brass as picking "range mushrooms".Brass monkey, brass chicken, and in another post, "brass buzzard" was used. I think these terms have derogatory connotations that really shouldn't apply to how we describe ourselves or relate to. I proffered in another post "brass lynx"
I think we should reserve the derogatory terms for those lacking patience who take brass from the rightful owner prior to obvious abandonment.
Is that derogatory... not to me.
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bullseye308
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A couple years ago I realized my time is getting short and I didn't want my wife dealing with lots of things, so I determined what I'll need for the next few years and sell off the rest. All my brass is range pickup, and stored cleaned, deprimed, resized, tumbled, and flared. What I'm using that year is also primed. I sold/traded/payed-it-foreword 16k pieces of 9mm, 8k of 38 spl., 3k of 357, 8k of 308(and 15k bullets and the powder and primers for the 308). Had to part with my 308's and 12ga cuz my shoulders are crap. That left me with 20k 9mm, 2k of 38, 2k of 357, and 6k of 223. I'm good with what's left and I also have about 90# of scrap brass. I pick up every piece of brass I encounter, same with lead.
I’ve just learned to sit to the right of the guys with the rental AK. It’s an endless supply of 7.62x39 brass. Plus, now that the Russian steel case is gone, it’s all reloadable Balkan brass. I wont chase 5.56 or 9x19 anymore, but I do take targets of opportunity and any 45 auto brass. Without trying, I have a small supply of 380 and 40. Still not enough to grow a new gun. Yet…
lightman
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If I remember correctly it was just outside of Clarksville Mississippi.If you found it on US1 between Cocoa Beach and the Merritt Island Causeway, I can tell you...
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I'll definitely scrounge brass for calibers that I personally load for, but not those I don't. I also believe those brass scroungers who get in people's way on the range, trying to grab their brass should be banned from the range. Few things are more irritating than some guy coming up to my shooting position to start raking up all the brass while I'm obviously still shooting.
At my range there are a couple of older gents on fixed incomes who resell brass they scrounge from the range, so while I try to recover all my own brass, I certainly have no problem at all leaving the other stuff for them. They also have good range etiquette and wait until people leave a shooting position before taking the brass.
At my range there are a couple of older gents on fixed incomes who resell brass they scrounge from the range, so while I try to recover all my own brass, I certainly have no problem at all leaving the other stuff for them. They also have good range etiquette and wait until people leave a shooting position before taking the brass.
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I pick up everything I see. Know how much a 30 gallon trash can full of .22 brass is worth? I just turned one in at the recyclers. It all adds up. If I can't use the brass I swap, sell, or gift it to new reloaders. Selling it for scrap is a distant last resort. I have a 2 gallon bucket of each type that I work out of and at least a five gallon bucket in reserve. For shotgun it is a 5 gal bucket and a 33 GAL trash can of each. I have on occasion given away brass and bullets on here to get someone up and going as well.
There is no set amount of brass on hand, same as there is no standard reloader. We all have a different idea of what we need.
There is no set amount of brass on hand, same as there is no standard reloader. We all have a different idea of what we need.
In the last two weeks I have noticed 7.62x39 reloadable brass laying at our club range. It's the first I have seen in over 4 years. I guess the steel cases are starting to run out.
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AJC1
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Those ready for the apocalypse won't run out of steel case for the next decade shooting continuously. Probably new to the game shooters... black Friday hit another record for sales.
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conan32120
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More brass for me then lol, I can even sort by headstamp
How many pounds of .22 brass is 30 gallons?
I did a little math using current cost of my favorite calibers. Without working too hard or very fast, I clear $60+/hr, untaxed, including brass cleaning. And I enjoy it. I think you might be right.
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Hmmm… well, after complaining here about having so much brass I can’t store it safely, I just asked in another post for all the S&B and Fiocchi .38/.357 brass the poster was taking off to the scrap heap.
But it’s not an addiction! I can quit collecting brass any time I want to!
But it’s not an addiction! I can quit collecting brass any time I want to!
