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hr2lrn · Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 9:50 pm Post subject: Real stupid question

Okay, is there anything I can do with my .22 brass? Since I'm going green these days, I feel like I ought to keep this and not throw it away. I shoot in my back yard and put it in my pocket when I finished (YES, I do live INSIDE the City of New Orleans). Then I put it in a big vitamin jar when I get inside. Can I melt it all down and make a set of brass knuckles? LOL, Let me know if anyone has any ideas.
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contender · Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:06 am Post subject:

Any I get goes in my scrap bin for later recycling. It isn't much,, but at least I'm not wasting it if I can recover it.
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nvbirdman · Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:13 am Post subject:

A scrap metal dealer might give you a little bit for it.

s4s4u · Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:42 am Post subject:

I know a guy who was using 22LR cases for making jacketed bullets a while back. He hasn't asked for any lately so not sure if he still is. I can ask.

mike722 · Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 5:15 am Post subject:

gotta be worth SOMETHING... the recycle places should take it, especially if you have a quantity..

blume357 · Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 7:37 am Post subject:

I live in fear that my gun club is going to figure this out one day.

a few years back they had the skeet field mined with some type of big skimmer machine and the company that did it split the profits... our share was 80 grand, that's right, eighty thousand dollars!

not just the lead in the berms but the brass out in front of the pistol and rifle ranges will have to bring in much more than that.

Ale-8(1) · Hawkeye Joined: 24 Oct 2007 Posts: 7957 Location: Kentucky

At my local gun club, we swept up the spent brass (mostly .22's) after each range session and sold it to a scrap dealer when we accumulated a bucket-full. Helped buy targets.

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ohiogunr · Bearcat Joined: 15 Feb 2010 Posts: 15

Years ago a company had a set of dies that you used in a heavy duty reloading press to form .22 jacketed bullets from lead cores formed in a die in conjunction with a .22 shell casing. I think the company was called CH. The BRASS jacketed bullets produced were supposed to be cheap and accurate, though I have not talked to anyone who has used them. I would think that recycling would be the better idea. A couple months ago I took a small armload of copper from wire that I had burned the plastic off of and received $35 for it. A big pretzel jug stands on my dresser upstairs half full of junk cartridge cases. I'm planning to recycle them. Very Happy

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mohavesam · Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2010 3:37 pm Post subject:

I had a 5-gallon pail filled to within 2-3 inches of rimfire brass. Took it to a metals recycler but it was only about $21 at the time. My time has got to be worth more than 10 cents an hour!

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Pal Val · Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2010 5:41 pm Post subject:

My club sells the brass to a recycling place. The money is worth the effort. Brass is getting pretty expensive.
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wd4ins · Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2010 5:42 pm Post subject:

http://www.corbins.com/jackets.htm#rfjm

Had a friend that did this, he said it works pretty good!

Hondo44 · Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 7:44 pm Post subject: Rimfire brass

I take mine to my gun club. They sweep up each day and sell all the brass. It's a nice junk of cash for range improvement. The more members that bring their brass to our range, the more we make. We can scrounge nickle plated stuff and sell at the gun shows. the recycler doesn't want it.
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Rick Courtright · Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 8:09 pm Post subject:

Hi,

My old range, now closed, had brass buckets all over. We were responsible for policing our area when done shooting, and I did as others here have mentioned: took my junk from home w/ me to toss in the bucket. They sold it... helped a little w/ expenses, I 'spose.

The range I use now has no buckets: everything just gets tossed on the ground. The RO allows us to scrounge during the day, then at day's end, he sweeps it all into semi-neat rows in front of the firing line. A couple of times a week, someone comes, picks up the piles, separates the steel cases out, and takes all the brass to the recycler for sale. Again, it helps a little w/ expenses... last I looked, scrap brass was about 75 cents a pound, so it adds up fairly quickly.

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TinkerDave · Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 1:46 pm Post subject: Re: Real stupid question

TinkerDave · Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 1:47 pm Post subject: Re: Real stupid question