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Once fired brass casings.

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#1 ·
Does anyone know if once fired military casings are worth anything besides scrap price or anyone that buys them?
 
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Well,a real quick search will find you over 100 places that sell once fired brass-mil surp or not.I generally do 2 bids a year-anywhere from 1-3.5 tons of mainly 5.56...real simple to process-load cement mixer with brass/corncob-dump-use friends 1050 with my autobot-deprime,resize(RT1500)swage....put back in cement mixer with steel pins-dump on tarp-dry....Shovel into bin on scale-we sell 1000 processed 5.56 for 85.00shpd.....your 7.62x51 is worth about 75 for 500 unprocessed...the .50-about .10-.20 each but shpg is expensive.
 
#11 ·
Military brass don't say 7.62. At least not US military brass.

Got two letters - LC, TW, etc - the arsenal it was made at.

Two numbers - 72, 89, 07, etc - the year it was made in.

Cross inside a circle - NATO.
 
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I bought a bunch of them. If you take a few and run them thru a 308 die, they will look good but the rifle bolt will probably not roll all the way over as they run them thru a machine gun and bulge the dickens out of them and the springback doesn't help. I had to use a 308 small base die to resolve that issue. Only have to do that once then they will fire form like any other brass and you can then use the regular 308 die. Will also have to swage most of the primer pockets. But they work fine and go bang fine.
 
#22 ·
The United States is a member of NATO

But you knew that
The U.S. ammo is a different grade than NATO ammo if you really want to get technical about it. Do your research before trying to insult someone. Certain grades of NATO ammo do not meet U.S. specs and that's why you have some ammo with the NATO stamp and some without it.
 
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YOU ARE the one who bought 2000 lbs of scrap brass THEN came on here asking if it was worth anything to anyone. It sounds like YOU should have done more research BEFORE buying 2000 lbs of brass or you wouldn't have had to ask that question
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OR maybe your requestion was like the old Detective Columbo routine, where you were just stating to the group that you just happen to have all of this scrap brass and just maybe it's worth something to someone here and just maybe we would all drool and ask you to sell us some if you would be so kind.
 
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