What do you do with your spent brass?

[fatelk]

Ever use an empty case for a whistle?
Many years ago when I was in high school I sorted 15 or 20 different cases by tone, hot glued them together and made a pan flute. I showed it to friends at school and the principal saw it. He liked it so much I gave it to him. A friend who knows the family told me just a few years ago that he still has it on a shelf in his house.

It was a very small school, and nearly two decades ago. Nowadays I imagine bringing something like that to school would get someone in trouble.

 

[Well-Armed Lamb]

I hang on to it. I don't reload yet, but if I start, I'll have a supply of cases ready to go.

 

[The Scout]

I don't shoot powder-burners that often. All my family has are a few rimfires so the rare occasions we make it to the gun range I spend a lot of my time picking up the spent brass. I still have the 5 rounds of .380a very nice gentleman allowed me to shoot from his snub. Ended up hitting several feet hight but it was nice to fire something different from a .22.

 

[Cannonball888]

In one afternoon at the range my kids once collected 15 pounds of spent brass. I don't reload so I tried to cash it in at a metal recycling plant, but they refused it according their policy against spent ammo for safety reasons. I ended up giving it all away.

 

[MilsurpShooter]

.35 remington, 7.5 Swiss, 7.62x54r, 8mm mauser I reload, anything else I have goes into the scrap bucket at the range. They bring it down to the recycling yard and get the cash for it, they in turn use the money for operating costs, new targets and the like.

 

[Dorryn]

I have over 1000 empty brass cases of 9mm, and I dont even have a gun that chambers it.

 

[SoCalShooter]

tumble, lube and load ~

 

[Dksimon]

I am saving all that I pick up. And anything that isnt worth saving (i.e. smashed) gets put in a bucket that I cash in and save the cash for new toys. I even pick up .22, partly out of necessity because the land owners dont like casings laying around. does any one know if the recycers will take .22?

 

[ARTiger]

I save all mine and reload some myself Common pistol calibers that get shot often like 9mm, .45 ACP and .38 SPL I take to an indoor range that has high speed professional reloading equipment. They then reload my brass (based on my choice of bullet, powder, primer, etc. from any of several reloading manuals) for $10 to $16 per 100. Comes back all nice, clean and packaged in 50 round boxes for way less than I could buy the components and do it myself.

 

[Nanook]

I have a nice belt buckle made of stainless steel, with .357 Magnum brass heads in a circle around a 12 gauge head in the center.

Very nice.

But normally, I reload my brass.

 

[ScratchnDent]

Centerfires I reload, rimfires go in a bucket to be taken to the recycling yard for cash.