Old Brass at Flea Market

[Gator 45/70]

Or someone is getting rid of Grandpa's brass and shot.
Walking thru the local flea market yesterday and spotted a table with brass and lead for sale So,

I ease on over to for about 200 pieces of old 30.06 brass
Couple hundred of 38 special brass
Some 1943 45 auto round ball about 35 pieces. Some are in poor shape so these would be nice for a collector?
3 bags of lead shot
Probably #7 shot in one bag
2 Bags of what I suspect is # 1 buckshot
The bags are extremely brittle so I haven't attempted to open any.
3 tins of it says muzzle loader primers, I reckon about 50 in each one.
I think the majority of the 30.06 brass is 1962 match, Some pieces are earlier like 1954.
Haven't gone thru the whole pile but here she is.

[Gator 45/70]

One more, I know it's hot but get out there early and leave early. Thanks

[lightman]

Thats an interesting score!

[Winger Ed.]

Cool.

I too like coming across old stuff like that.

[Der Gebirgsjager]

You might find some interest in the steel cased EC 43 WW II .45 ACP rounds, but they really aren't that scarce, even now almost 79 years after they were made. A whole lot of it was manufactured and there are still unopened boxes of it floating around. I'd bet that most of it will still shoot, even if they do look a little cruddy.

DG

[GregLaROCHE]

Sounds like a good score to me. Make sure the cases are in good condition and aren’t at the end of there life. If you don’t have use of the shot yourself, consider selling or trading it, instead of melting it down. Someone may be interested in those muzzle loader primers too. Especially with the shortage of primer today.

[Gator 45/70]

Thanks men, I don't own a 30.06, 45 auto or a muzzleloader? Used to but traded or sold them off over the years.
I might trade off most of the brass for some 38/40 brass?
Primers I guess someone would have to pick these up locally?

[Land Owner]

Some of the brass may have crimped primer pockets. Some may also be berdan (2 flash hole) primed. You gotta watch for those "hidden" gems. They'll bend a one-hole depriming rod or make a new hole between the existing two. When you attempt to deprime the next case, oops, bent rod or no rod (it's stuck in the new hole in a resized case)! Use a flashlight, check each case, or discover case headstamps which tend to be berdan (I have forgotten), and have some spare depriming rods.

I bought a competition 30-06 reloader's estate, someone I knew, that contained, among other things, tens of thousands of pieces of multi-caliber brass included loaded factory and reloaded ammo. A lot of it had gotten damp before I got it, dried, and was corroded. I tumbled all of it over a couple of weeks, including the loaded rounds, at about an hour of tumbling per batch.

[Sasquatch-1]

If you are not sure about the caps you may want to post a picture in the muzzle loading section with what are these. I don't think anyone will be able to distinguish between #10 and #11, but they will be able to tell whether they are musket caps or not.

[Gator 45/70]

Can one tell from the cover data?

[Markopolo]

Percussion caps they are. I have some of the German ones. They are for a cap and ball pistol. number 10 equivalent if memory serves.

[Gator 45/70]

Few more

[T-Bird]

size of the tins suggests they're not musket caps I think. Picture of the caps would settle it- never mind! that posted while I was typing.

[Bmi48219]

The Remington cap container has a zip code so they’re no more tha than 59 years old :kidding::kidding:

[Gator 45/70]

What size BB's are these I'm thinking #4 maybe?

[pworley1]

You never know what you might find.

[Big Tom]

Midway still has them listed (not for sale) https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1022777938 - looks like they are No. 11 size.


Can one tell from the cover data?

[Gator 45/70]

Midway still has them listed (not for sale) https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1022777938 - looks like they are No. 11 size.

Thanks to all !!!

[Winger Ed.]

What size BB's are these I'm thinking #4 maybe?

Put 'shot size chart' in a quickie search engine, the size and diameter charts will pop right up.

[dale2242]

Measure the balls and shot with your calipers.
Them look for a shot chart and/or post the diameters here.

[Gator 45/70]

Shot measures 0.176/7 with the Starrett mic.
1 Shot weighs 8.3 grains

[Gator 45/70]

Somewhere between A or BBBB, Probably obsolete stuff

[fatelk]

I stopped at an estate sale out of town here last weekend. I didn't see much of anything that I had any use for, but on one shelf there was a couple boxes of older green-box Remington 30-06 ammo. The top one had an estate sale tag of $10. I thought that's not too bad if it's live ammo. I opened it and looked- nope, fired brass.

I then thought ten bucks is pretty high for two boxes of fired brass, but then I saw a $10 tag on the bottom box too! Half a dollar each for dusty old '06 brass, at an estate sale? I still wonder what they were smoking. I doubt they had much success at their sale; most of everything else was similarly priced. People don't go to garage sales, estate sales, and flea markets to pay full retail, or at least I don't.

[Gator 45/70]

I stopped at an estate sale out of town here last weekend. I didn't see much of anything that I had any use for, but on one shelf there was a couple boxes of older green-box Remington 30-06 ammo. The top one had an estate sale tag of $10. I thought that's not too bad if it's live ammo. I opened it and looked- nope, fired brass.

I then thought ten bucks is pretty high for two boxes of fired brass, but then I saw a $10 tag on the bottom box too! Half a dollar each for dusty old '06 brass, at an estate sale? I still wonder what they were smoking. I doubt they had much success at their sale; most of everything else was similarly priced. People don't go to garage sales, estate sales, and flea markets to pay full retail, or at least I don't.

55 clams, I was after the 38 brass until I started dickering for the rest of the stuff like the lead shot.
I figure 1 25# bag of shot sells for about that nowadays?