I was browsing the government sales website and found the page where they list spent brass cases. Most of them specifically say they do not require the cases to be mutilated. So it's basically once-fired military brass. By the TON!

I'm going to watch some of those auctions to see what they actually sell for. The opening bids on all the lots are $150, but I'm sure they don't sell for that. But the thought of even 500lbs of once-fired military brass for under a thousand bucks that is reloadable is exciting. A dumpster of brass for any price just makes me giggle.

If I found one of the smaller lots within reasonable driving distance, I would seriously consider it.

And I finally have a good price on 30MM brass!http://www.govliquidation.com/auction/view?id=4304150&convertTo=USD
No- seriously, if there was a great deal on 5.56 or 7.62 it would be worth buying to re-sell at the retail level on eBay or gunbroker or whatever. Or to swim in your own room-full of once-fired empties. (What? - you've never dreamed of that?)

I've heard of manufacturers bidding on this stuff to make re-manufactured ammo, but I'd be curious how this would work out for an individual to buy, and how one would process it.  A few years back, I looked into something like this with a friend when we were talking about getting into reloading as a business.  The problem was that it was all range brass, so you might wind up with a lot of really beat up brass and odd stuff in the mix, like the occassional 20 year old weathered case, steel or aluminum cases, etc...  Probably not an issue for a guy just reloading for himself.  This brass looks a lot cleaner and better than what we were looking at.  Nice, clean brass like that would be running about $2 a pound just scrap prices, so even if, for some crazy reason it was unusable or impractical for reloading, you could probably recoup your costs if you paid less than that for it.

Outbreak, you can put it down anytime you want to, right? 



If you got an ass-ton of brass, I could see you buying a second Dillion or something...just to speed up production.

You guys should then buy a couple of registered machineguns.  You know, because they can make you some more brass quickly. 

Any word on what they sell for?

BTW, any pistol brass (almost exclusively 9mm) would not be a problem but almost all of the rifle brass will have crimped primers that require special tools to remove them.

I have the RCBS primer pocket swager set, and I'll admit, it's a PITA. Swaging the pocket, on the upstroke, is easy. Getting the case off the swaging "nipple" is pretty tough. I'm seriously considering the Dillon swager, which I've been told is a lot easier.