Money for nuthin..........

[pirate ammo]

At my range (which is a public range) we do not allow brass mining. If it's your brass you can pick it up. At the end of the day, or the next morning before the range opens, we sweep it up.
The brass gets sold for scrape, and the money goes to the 4H youth gun program. This way we get a new generation of shooters.

around here a few people just dump it off,we use it to buy school supplies for the local elementary school me wife teaches at,,

 

[thekriebles]

Ballpark, what does a 5 gallon mud tub full of brass weigh?

I'm assuming about 60lbs., based on first post & photo. He stated he had 181lbs., and there were 3 buckets in the photo.

 

[hogpatrol]

I'm assuming about 60lbs., based on first post & photo. He stated he had 181lbs., and there were 3 buckets in the photo.

Don, I went back to the OP and it looks like all rifle brass, albeit less weight per bucket. Your estimate is spot on. 9mm and similar, full to the top hits around 75 lbs.

 

[bobm]

I'm assuming about 60lbs., based on first post & photo. He stated he had 181lbs., and there were 3 buckets in the photo.

Your math is correct. I weigh them before leaving and they are about 62-63 lbs each. Deduct the 2 lb container for net weight. There is an even mix of every cartridge shape.

 

[spclark]

The fact that I had built a bench caused everyone to use it and in return all the brass was in one area and easy for me to find.

Kinda like nailing a peanut butter jar lid to a tree, screwing the full jar back on then cutting out the bottom, eh?

 

[joshb]

chicks for free. where

Getting them is cheap! Keeping them is the expensive part!!!
Why are you guys scrapping brass? Couldn't you sort it and sell it here?

 

[bobm]

Getting them is cheap! Keeping them is the expensive part!!!
Why are you guys scrapping brass? Couldn't you sort it and sell it here?

I keep the good stuff I can use or know someone can use. Example: 100 WW .44 mag on the ground Sunday afternoon. No way would I spend the time needed to sort, package, list, ship. Much easier to scrap, cash and walk away. I know the cycle will start over again right away.

 

[hogpatrol]

Getting them is cheap! Keeping them is the expensive part!!!
Why are you guys scrapping brass? Couldn't you sort it and sell it here?

Josh, It's not worth the time, especially at, ahem, our ages.

 

[pirate ammo]

Getting them is cheap! Keeping them is the expensive part!!!
Why are you guys scrapping brass? Couldn't you sort it and sell it here?

some of it I sort but for the most part scrap,,put it in the shop , people don't want it,,advertise it,,package and ship,,and HOPE they don't complain afterwards,,

 

[bobm]

The majority of what's in those buckets is 9mm, .40, .45, .223 both military and commercial. Also any Berdan crap, foreign military .308 and .30-06. I have a large cache of commercial hunting rifle brass such as .25-06, .270, .308 , .30-06, 7mm mag and 300 and .338 win mag. and many others. Lots of good handgun brass, too like 45 Colt, 50AE. 44 mag. I have 150 .22-250's picked up and on their fifth firing now.

Unbelievable what is left on the ground or tossed into trash barrels.

Keep it coming boys and girls.

 

[hogpatrol]

Magdumpers, gotta love 'em!

 

[bobm]

Magdumpers, gotta love 'em!

Another phenomenon associated with the "Magdumpers" is the wide assortment of dropped live ammo. I have two gallons of live picked up ammo at the house in two years of picking it up. It is getting worse and the club can't correct it. Enough 9mm and .223 to justify buying cheap guns to fire it all. My wife picked up ten steel case 7.62 x 39 rounds in the dirt from one short bay on Sunday.

WHY???? Are they that consumed by rapid fire blasting they don't even realize dropping ammo?

I have quantities of just about all common sizes.....especially .22 rimfire ammo.

 

[hogpatrol]

Another phenomenon associated with the "Magdumpers" is the wide assortment of dropped live ammo. I have two gallons of live picked up ammo at the house in two years of picking it up. It is getting worse and the club can't correct it. Enough 9mm and .223 to justify buying cheap guns to fire it all. My wife picked up ten steel case 7.62 x 39 rounds in the dirt from one short bay on Sunday.

WHY???? Are they that consumed by rapid fire blasting they don't even realize dropping ammo?

I have quantities of just about all common sizes.....especially .22 rimfire ammo.

I don't save that stuff. I don't know what powder is in them, how much of it is in them or who loaded them. Best to pull the bullets, dump the powder on the flowers, deprime and scrap. Not going to take a hand off, blow up a gun or get a face full of shrapnel to save pocket change for a round of anything. YMMV.

 

[alinwa]

chicks for free. where

Chicks fer free....CHICKS fer free???

And all this time I thought it was CHECKS for free, like they were good liddle boys and got Free Checking....

Hmmmmmm

Do love me some Mark Knopfler, I think I've got every album he's ever recorded....

 

[pirate ammo]

Chicks fer free....CHICKS fer free???

And all this time I thought it was CHECKS for free, like they were good liddle boys and got Free Checking....

Hmmmmmm

Do love me some Mark Knopfler, I think I've got every album he's ever recorded....

free checks and snowflakes go together like red beans and rice,,,

 

[pirate ammo]

forget about the Richards Sausage,,got to have that,,

 

[joshb]

Josh, It's not worth the time, especially at, ahem, our ages.

Ya know, old habits are hard to break. Every time I see a case on the ground, I see a nickel or a dime. I can't resist money laying on the ground! I have to pick it up!

 

[bobm]

I don't save that stuff. I don't know what powder is in them, how much of it is in them or who loaded them. Best to pull the bullets, dump the powder on the flowers, deprime and scrap. Not going to take a hand off, blow up a gun or get a face full of shrapnel to save pocket change for a round of anything. YMMV.

Ya know, old habits are hard to break. Every time I see a case on the ground, I see a nickel or a dime. I can't resist money laying on the ground! I have to pick it up!

Almost all of the dropped center fire ammo is the bargain basement blaster variety stuff. As we have genuine caring hand loaders here we don't let our handcrafted rounds carelessly fall into the dirt.
I have no plans to fire any of it. Not sure what I will do with, either. When I was helping our club with the new member orientation meetings, I would dump a pail of mixed dropped ammo on a table for show and tell.

I would explain to them that this was unacceptable to not police the firing line for dropped ammo. We certainly do not want a young school age kid to pocket a live round and show it off to his classmates. Our club does not need the exposure when he may be asked by school officials where he got the round from.

Or worse, an inquisitive kid putting it in a vise and taking a hammer and nail to it.


Hey you slobs....pick up dropped live ammo!!

 

[joshb]

Almost all of the dropped center fire ammo is the bargain basement blaster variety stuff. As we have genuine caring hand loaders here we don't let our handcrafted rounds carelessly fall into the dirt.
I have no plans to fire any of it. Not sure what I will do with, either. When I was helping our club with the new member orientation meetings, I would dump a pail of mixed dropped ammo on a table for show and tell.

I would explain to them that this was unacceptable to not police the firing line for dropped ammo. We certainly do not want a young school age kid to pocket a live round and show it off to his classmates. Our club does not need the exposure when he may be asked by school officials where he got the round from.

Or worse, an inquisitive kid putting it in a vise and taking a hammer and nail to it.


Hey you slobs....pick up dropped live ammo!!


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(Spoken in a whisper from a dark alley) Psst! Hey Bud. How much for the whole bin?