Once fired brass prices?

BillBro said:
Sometimes if I have a day off during the work week Ill go down there thinking Ill no have to put up with the crowds, NOT. Its always busy and I mean always, all year. Id hate to try to count the people who come through there on a weekend, and I dont even see the 3gun course or the huge clays setup they have.
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And this is exactly why I drive out to the desert to do my shooting. Plenty of brass to pick up out there as well.
 
Starline like Roze Dist ( Zero Bullets ) will 9 out of 10 times show not in stock . Go ahead & order 90% of the time it'll ship within a week . I've bought over 10K cases in different calibers in the last month from Starline FWIW .
 
Will place ad here on the Forum...

tlawler said:
Have you thought about selling it here in the classifieds? The harder to get calibers usually go quickly and shipping is a breeze with USPS flat rate boxes.
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Thanks for your input...I am going to go ahead and sell it here on the Forum...Roger
 
Paul in Nevada said:
And this is exactly why I drive out to the desert to do my shooting. Plenty of brass to pick up out there as well.
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Sadly for me my friend I have no other options, rather, that range is by far my best option. I have to drive 40 minutes one way as it is. Thats also why when I go I usually shoot for 6.or 7 hours. Thats my Sunday time.
The desert sounds great. Lived in Tucson for a few years many moons ago but I can still remember the smell of the desert.

I do want to add that I dont pick up the brass, any brass because I necessarily need it but some I jist am not going to pass up and just let it lay there. To my knowledge the store there at the range has never sold the collected brass so I guess they just scrap it so no, Im not going to pass on any revolver brass especially, or good 10mm, or good 45acp.
I have bin after bin of good cleaned and prepped brass in every caliber I reload, some is even reprimed and annealed (LC 5.56). The only caliber Im short on is 6.8SPC so if anyone, ANYONE, has some they dont need or want, if its small primer, Ill buy it. Remington and PPU I think are the only LP ones. Best, by far is S&B or old SSA, then Hornady and last Federal.
I probably have over 2k 44mag cases, 500 new Starline and a boatload of Remington, WW,PMC, JAG, etc. 44spl I only have about 1k, 10mm I have 4 plastic totes full all prepped and sorted, .45acp, same thing. Id be scared to count the 38 and 357 cases or the LC 5.56, again all sorted by year and fully prepped, like match rifle prepped. I have 6 plastic bins of just 223 blaster brass.

Im like a packrat now with brass. Whenever I go to the range I collect brass because I cant not. Its a disease.
 
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I'm just getting back into reloading after a number of years (30+) being away from it. Regarding your wet polishing, do you use a mixture of liquids to complete this task or is it just water that you use? I dry polish my brass with crushed walnuts and a few drops of "Brasso" for a minimum of three hours after which I wash it (to get rid of any dust) and dry at 160 degrees F. for three hours. I have only washed the brass if it was dirty range brass and for that I do the following: place brass in a clear plastic container with soap, lemon juice, and water with a cover. I throw it into my clothes washer (front load) with a load of cloths and let the washer action do its thing for the duration of the washing cycle and then to the dryer for three hours at 160 degrees F. after rinsing the brass. Is this an overkill and should I change my line of thinking and the way I'm doing things? Thanks for any suggestions you or others may have in advance.
 
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I just throw my brass in the vibratory “ tumbler” with a mix of walnut hulls and raw rice with media boost added. Real dirty gets the over night treatment. Little to no dust, if any wipe it off when depriming/ sizing.
 
I just picked up 1K nickel 9mm & 500 357 Magnum nickel cases from Capitol Cartridge...

$35 for the former and $40 for the latter.

I was flat amazed at the quality of the brass: there were 516 good 357 Mag cases after I deprimed them and ran them through the Thumlers, then resized. I will reinspect when they are expanded and primed, but I only needed to toss two(!) and that was because the primers broke through and I wasn't going to spend any time with an EZ Out or some other foolishness just for a couple cases. Not a single case had a crack at the rim!

The nickled 9mm cases were so clean I didn't need to wash them & actually deprimed & resized them in one fell swoop! I almost NEVER do that (in an attempt to keep my sizing dies unscratched and pristine): since I have a couple of NIB Hornady 9mm sizing dies as spares I'm not too concerned.

This is not my 1st brass purchase from Capitol and my only surprise was finding out most of the 45 ACP nickel cases I bought a while ago were actually Speer +Ps with small pistol primers... Check them out sometime.

Now, with LPPs few and far between I'm not at all displeased.;)

Cheers!
 
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