old/damaged brass, what to do with it?

[LEE308]

I'm new here, did a search, did not find anything. If this is not posted in the right spot, please advise.

What do you do with worn out, damaged or otherwise unuseful rifle/pistol brass? (not enough to sell as scrap brass) I have a coffee can full.



Regards....

[DeanWinchester]

Depends on what it is. For example, I have a coffe can I keep 30WCF cases with split necks. Eventually when it's full I'll find someone who shoots a Herret.
The same for 223. Any with bad necks, I make into 300 BLK.
Recycle!

[trk]

I keep a 5 gal bucket full of scrap brass - to the recycler when the price is right.

[John Boy]

... Save your spent primers also. The pounds add up

[Hardcast416taylor]

When a case is either unsafe to reload further or has a split or crack, I hammer the mouth and shoulder flat with a hammer and then toss it into a nearby 5 gal. pail meant for them. When I have enough to warrant a trip to the salvage yard out they go to be either sold or traded for lead.Robert

[Bonz]

I bring my junk brass with me to the shooting range and add to their collection. Then they don't complain as much if I accidentally pickup more brass than what I fired.

[Shiloh]

... Save your spent primers also. The pounds add up

A peanut butter jar full weighs more than you'd think.

SHiloh

[geargnasher]

Smack with hammer and feed to scrap bucket. Fate of contents varies, but money or trade is always involved.

Gear

[runfiverun]

noooooooo.
used up dead brass is still usefull
man.
40 S&W makes awesome 44 mag and great 45 acp/colt bullets.
9mm makes great 40S&W bullets.
they can make 308-8mm or 375 win bullets too with the right draw down and point form die set.
i'll take all the worn out 5.7 cases you have.
223 and 30 carbine will make good 358 bullets
heck 22lr cases makes great 223 bullets.

you just gotta find the guy with the right die sets.

[zuke]

Mine go for scrap. I have a 5 gallon pail full of both 223 and 40 waiting for the one way trip.

[wrangler5]

I have a friend who builds flintlock rifles. My scrap brass goes to him and eventually ends up being cast into butt plates and trigger guards. Most appropriate recycling I can think of.

[trk]

When a case is either unsafe to reload further or has a split or crack, I hammer the mouth and shoulder flat with a hammer and then toss it into a nearby 5 gal. pail meant for them. When I have enough to warrant a trip to the salvage yard out they go to be either sold or traded for lead.Robert

the reloading press will also crush unusable cases - and it's right-much handy - place case between ram and bottom of die (unless it's a depriming die).

[zuke]

I have a friend who builds flintlock rifles. My scrap brass goes to him and eventually ends up being cast into butt plates and trigger guards. Most appropriate recycling I can think of.

Now that would be something to see.

[WHITETAIL]

I have a 5 gal. jug with a lid on it.
Once a year I go to the scrap yard
and turn in all kinds of metal.
Then I use the money for more primers.:Fire:

[snuffy]

Lee308, welcome to this madness called castboolits!

If your scrap brass container isn't heavy enough for a trip to the scrap metals dealer, WAIT, it'll gain weight as time goes on. It certainly won't loose weight!

[**oneshot**]

keep dumping into a 5 gal pail, then when I'm going near the scrap yard I drop it off if the price is good.

[fcvan]

I have a buddy with a forge. He wants all my old brass to melt down and cast challenge coins. We are working on a design for past and present members of our investigative unit and our version of a SWAT team. We have ordered commercial versions of our challenge coins but want to make presentation coins for folks who retired in good standing. He wants to cast disks for use in a guillotine stamp as used by the Romans and I want to make a proof to be used in sand casting. We shall see how the project goes.

[Ohio Rusty]

I have taken damaged rifle shells, cut off the crimped end and primered end (making a tube) , soldered that smaller crimped end to the side of the shell and inswrted a cotton cord in it to make a tinder tube. I've also soldered a flat piece of brass on the end of the tube and made BP powder pourers from them. You can file the end until it gets to the correct grain load you want.
Ohio Rusty ><>

[colt 357]

... Save your spent primers also. The pounds add up
YA last years primers fetched $6.40 or a 150 new primers here.

[frkelly74]

223 with split neck equals 7.62X25 brass as well as 300 blk .

30/06 brass with split neck equals 8mm mauser brass or 7mm mauser brass

8mm mauser brass with split neck equals 308 win brass

and so on and then recycle.

[rsrocket1]

I haven't gathered enough stuff for the scrappers, but I heard someone got $35 for a coffee can full of spent primers. Not bad for something that is usually dumped out.

[sleddog]

If you shoot at a range that has a few military shooters as members or competitors, why not swap your "bad" brass with them for their "good" once fired military brass ?? Their brass is probably all from the same lot, you know that it has been fired from a quality (armorer tuned) gun and to their (our tax dollars) government... brass is brass... whether new, used, or otherwise. And it stronger than commercial brass also.