What do you do with your brass "Spent Bullet Casing"

Whitehawk

Hey all just wonding what people here do with there Spent Bullet Casing?

Sparks

When there is any (which there hasn't been in a while), it goes into a disposal bucket on the range, later to be sold off for scrap metal.

Longranger

Whitehawk wrote: »

Hey all just wonding what people here do with there Spent Bullet Casing?

If you do a bit of fishing fill with molten lead,drill through the neck,put in a small split ring or wire loop,they make great weights for worming!
If you can't reload them ,do something useful with them...;):D

Half-cocked

Give them to a mate in NI who reloads.

leupold90

Anyone ever sell their shells for scrap?

Glensman

Half-cocked wrote: »

Give them to a mate in NI who reloads.

On that note I'm on the lookout for .223 and .270 brass. Obviously there's a drink in it...

Whitehawk

most of the brass that im looking in to getting rid of is .22 stuff

doyle61

Saving them with the hope of being to reload in the future

Cass

Legal bit

• You must have a current and valid firearms license for every caliber of brass you possess.
• The amount of brass you have included with the amount of live ammo you have cannot exceed the limit of your license.
• When cashing in on the brass with a scrap yard, etc the yard must have authorisation/licenses to accept the brass.

Remember that brass is a componant part of a round and therefore is still classified as a round.


Me bit

• .22lr ammo is useless for reloading. According to every known expert reloading .22 ammo is not worth the hassle as ammo of equal quality can be bought from manufacturers, such as Eley, Lapua, etc, at the same if not cheaper price than reloading them.
• That aside reloading .22 ammo is more difficult as there is no primer to be inserted. The cases come pre-primed.
• The pice for brass is not enough to retire on. At approx. €4 per kg you would need a hell of alot of brass to make even enough to buy some more ammo.

Your best option is to visit a local range and give, dispose of your brass there. All ranges have collection bins for their members to dump their brass when they are finished firing. Safest, most legal method.

Whitehawk

cheers Ezridax think ill just dump it then in gun range

poulo6.5

Glensman wrote: »

On that note I'm on the lookout for .223 and .270 brass. Obviously there's a drink in it...

i have some .223 stuff that i have bin keeping in the hope that it might become legal to relode, but i am selling my .223 now so you are welcome to it

kenneths

what do people do with spent shotgun shells if they don't go to a range??

ormondprop

Mine go in a ditch or bin when i get home, depending how fast i have to reload

Longranger

ormondprop wrote: »

Mine go in a ditch or bin when i get home, depending how fast i have to reload

In the bin at home please!!! One thing I can't stand is finding rusty cartridges all over the place. It's another reason for people to bitch about hunters...

Glensman

poulo6.5 wrote: »

i have some .223 stuff that i have bin keeping in the hope that it might become legal to relode, but i am selling my .223 now so you are welcome to it

Good man Paulo!
Keep a hold of them for me and I'll hopefully get them off you in the near future... If you happen to be up with Ferghal White you might leave them in with him. I have to go see him soon about getting custom scope mounts made for the Howa

poulo6.5

Glensman wrote: »

Good man Paulo!
Keep a hold of them for me and I'll hopefully get them off you in the near future... If you happen to be up with Ferghal White you might leave them in with him. I have to go see him soon about getting custom scope mounts made for the Howa

i will be up with ferghal in the next week or 2 and i will leave them with him for you

i only kept the good stuff mostly hornady match

Glensman

poulo6.5 wrote: »

i will be up with ferghal in the next week or 2 and i will leave them with him for you

i only kept the good stuff mostly hornady match

Well as I say, there's be a drink in it for you!

(Keep Everything)!

I am going to start re-loading .223 and .270 in the near future and I have a friend re-loading .243.

kenneths

Longranger wrote: »

In the bin at home please!!! One thing I can't stand is finding rusty cartridges all over the place. It's another reason for people to bitch about hunters...

i've been putting them in the bin aswell.
phew... feel a bit better now that my binman has probably seen it before now

i usually pick up the shells that i find in the field too, dumping them in a field is the exact same as the eejits that throw rubbish out of cars!!!

ormondprop

Ya but if your out in a field full of rabbits with the 22 in long grass your going to be reloading as fast as you can and your not going to find your used brass

I might have some 223 brass for you aswell that i can leave in with fergal when i get it threaded

Glensman

ormondprop wrote: »

Ya but if your out in a field full of rabbits with the 22 in long grass your going to be reloading as fast as you can and your not going to find your used brass

I might have some 223 brass for you aswell that i can leave in with fergal when i get it threaded

Good man! Thanks very much...

I think I'm going to order the RCBS RockChucker Supreme Master Blah Blah Blah kit in the next couple of weeks. A friend of mine shoots .223 and my brother is going to start .223. I'm on .270 so we're going to split the cost of the press etc.

I doubt Very much if reloading is going to save me any money at all... I'll just end up shooting way more!

Longranger

ormondprop wrote: »

Ya but if your out in a field full of rabbits with the 22 in long grass your going to be reloading as fast as you can and your not going to find your used brass

I might have some 223 brass for you aswell that i can leave in with fergal when i get it threaded

I'm with you on the .22 casings,it was shotgun shells I was on about:)

FISMA

Give it to the woman as a present?

Nothing says I love you like once fired ear-rings!:)

Anniversary Casings Guide
1st Anniversary - 22lr
2nd Anniversary - 380
5th Anniversary - 9mm
10th Anniversary - 223
15th Anniversary - 243
20th Anniversary - 270
25th Anniversary - 30-06
50th Anniversary - 50 cal!

Longranger

FISMA wrote: »

Give it to the woman as a present?

Nothing says I love you like once fired ear-rings!:)

Anniversary Casings Guide
1st Anniversary - 22lr
2nd Anniversary - 380
5th Anniversary - 9mm
10th Anniversary - 223
15th Anniversary - 243
20th Anniversary - 270
25th Anniversary - 30-06
50th Anniversary - 50 cal!

what do you use for 75th? 40mm bofors!

poulo6.5

FISMA wrote: »

Give it to the woman as a present?

Nothing says I love you like once fired ear-rings!:)

Anniversary Casings Guide
1st Anniversary - 22lr
2nd Anniversary - 380
5th Anniversary - 9mm
10th Anniversary - 223
15th Anniversary - 243
20th Anniversary - 270
25th Anniversary - 30-06
50th Anniversary - 50 cal!

she would have some earlobes by the time she gets the 50cal:D

Grizzly 45

• • The pice for brass is not enough to retire on. At approx. €4 per kg you would need a hell of alot of brass to make even enough to buy some more ammo.

Who quoted you that????The price for copper and brass is climbing..Not as fast as Gold or silver,but it should be certainly more than 4euros a KG!!!
After all,why would our criminal elements be robbing brass and copper fittings if the stuff was worthless??:)

Cass

Grizzly 45 wrote: »

Who quoted you that....................................,but it should be certainly more than 4euros a KG!!!

Let me stop you there. I am not getting into a debate on the price of copper/brass. It was a rough guess of a price i was quoted 6-8 months ago (€30-ish per stone). Frankly i don't care enough about the price.

I dump my .22 brass, shotgun shells and 9mm brass at the range. I keep my .308 brass so the price for scrap is irrelevant to me.

lee70

poulo6.5 wrote: »

i have some .223 stuff that i have bin keeping in the hope that it might become legal to relode, but i am selling my .223 now so you are welcome to it

how much are you looking for the 223

poulo6.5

lee70 wrote: »

how much are you looking for the 223

Sold mate sorry