spent rimfire brass - The Firearms Forum

wpshooter · 08-08-2009, 09:35 AM

Is there any use for spent/fired rimfire (22 or 22 magnum) brass/hulls ?

I take it that this can not be reloaded but if I take this to a gun store or someone that does reloading, can they use it for some purpose ?

I hate to just throw it away.

Thanks.

Kieran McCaig · 08-08-2009, 09:41 AM

scrap metal my gun club just collects it and scraps it when you get enuff

PAINTBALL GUY 3 · 08-08-2009, 10:12 AM

Brass is brass ya? So a place that buy's metal may take them. I'v actuly picked up almost every case I'v fired in the hopes that one day I'll have a barrel full or something. I'v got abput 1000 so far, a LONG way to go.

Kieran McCaig · 08-08-2009, 10:19 AM

it's not veryprofitably like most scrapmetal it will take a long time to get enuff to make a money on it

PAINTBALL GUY 3 · 08-08-2009, 03:48 PM

Oh, for sure. But when some one asks "how meny .22's you shot in you life?" I can just show them.

gdmoody · 08-09-2009, 10:40 PM

There are probably 4 or 5 million of the little boogers laying on the ground at the range I belong to.

johnlives4christ · 08-09-2009, 11:29 PM

the local scrap metal place here will not accept any type of cartridge brass. i once had a 5 gallon bucket of brass i had shot. it weighed something like 50 or 60 pounds. they would not take it for any price.

i use my empty 22's for targets.

LDBennett · 08-10-2009, 07:19 AM

Any scrap metal place that will not take cartridge cases for the brass in them is stupid or has an ulterior and anti-gun agenda.

I watched a TV educational show on metals where they were feeding a metal pot with scrap and there (right on liberal TV) were cartridge cases being dumped into the pot, big as life.

Cartridge brass is high quality stuff and a scrap metal company that rejects it is stupid.

LDBennett

Oldeyes · 08-10-2009, 09:21 AM

There is also a (rather pricey at $600+) high quality system for swaging .223 diameter centerfire bullets out of spent .22 LR casings with an installed pure lead core. Depending upon your personal view of the politically biased firearm owning future, such a basement bullet swaging system might at some point make sense.

PAINTBALL GUY 3 · 08-10-2009, 12:58 PM

^^^^ So there is a use for them?

Big ugly · 08-11-2009, 06:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by johnlives4christ

the local scrap metal place here will not accept any type of cartridge brass. i once had a 5 gallon bucket of brass i had shot. it weighed something like 50 or 60 pounds. they would not take it for any price.

i use my empty 22's for targets.

Hey John about where you live in KY I know of several places that would take it. PM me and I can give you some locations.

RonC1 · 08-12-2009, 05:10 PM

Think RCBS. They got started by forming spent 22 rimfire cartridges as cladding for centerfire bullets, I believe during WWII when ammunition was scarce and reloading supplies were even scarcer.

Rock Chuck Bullet Swage was the name of the company then.

08-08-2009, 09:35 AM	#1
wpshooter V.I.P. Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 249	spent rimfire brass Is there any use for spent/fired rimfire (22 or 22 magnum) brass/hulls ? I take it that this can not be reloaded but if I take this to a gun store or someone that does reloading, can they use it for some purpose ? I hate to just throw it away. Thanks. -->

08-08-2009, 09:41 AM	#2
Kieran McCaig Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: canada Posts: 1,469	Re: spent rimfire brass scrap metal my gun club just collects it and scraps it when you get enuff

08-08-2009, 10:12 AM	#3
PAINTBALL GUY 3 Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 8	Re: spent rimfire brass Brass is brass ya? So a place that buy's metal may take them. I'v actuly picked up almost every case I'v fired in the hopes that one day I'll have a barrel full or something. I'v got abput 1000 so far, a LONG way to go.

08-08-2009, 10:19 AM	#4
Kieran McCaig Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: canada Posts: 1,469	Re: spent rimfire brass it's not veryprofitably like most scrapmetal it will take a long time to get enuff to make a money on it

08-08-2009, 03:48 PM	#5
PAINTBALL GUY 3 Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 8	Re: spent rimfire brass Oh, for sure. But when some one asks "how meny .22's you shot in you life?" I can just show them.

08-09-2009, 10:40 PM	#6
gdmoody Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Northeast Georgia Contributor Posts: 6,408	Re: spent rimfire brass There are probably 4 or 5 million of the little boogers laying on the ground at the range I belong to. __________________ NRA Endowment Member GeorgiaCarry.Org Member Retired US Army Postal Worker Personally, I carry a gun because I'm too young to die and too old to take an ass whoopin'.....author unknown (but obviously brilliant)

08-09-2009, 11:29 PM	#7
johnlives4christ Former Guest Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Kentucky Posts: 3,828	Re: spent rimfire brass the local scrap metal place here will not accept any type of cartridge brass. i once had a 5 gallon bucket of brass i had shot. it weighed something like 50 or 60 pounds. they would not take it for any price. i use my empty 22's for targets.

08-10-2009, 07:19 AM	#8
LDBennett Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Hesperia, CA Posts: 5,754	Re: spent rimfire brass Any scrap metal place that will not take cartridge cases for the brass in them is stupid or has an ulterior and anti-gun agenda. I watched a TV educational show on metals where they were feeding a metal pot with scrap and there (right on liberal TV) were cartridge cases being dumped into the pot, big as life. Cartridge brass is high quality stuff and a scrap metal company that rejects it is stupid. LDBennett

08-10-2009, 09:21 AM	#9
Oldeyes V.I.P. Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Ohio Posts: 223	Re: spent rimfire brass There is also a (rather pricey at $600+) high quality system for swaging .223 diameter centerfire bullets out of spent .22 LR casings with an installed pure lead core. Depending upon your personal view of the politically biased firearm owning future, such a basement bullet swaging system might at some point make sense.

08-10-2009, 12:58 PM	#10
PAINTBALL GUY 3 Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 8	Re: spent rimfire brass ^^^^ So there is a use for them?

08-12-2009, 05:10 PM	#12
RonC1 Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 33	Re: spent rimfire brass Think RCBS. They got started by forming spent 22 rimfire cartridges as cladding for centerfire bullets, I believe during WWII when ammunition was scarce and reloading supplies were even scarcer. Rock Chuck Bullet Swage was the name of the company then.