Over 16 metric tons of brass being auctioned by National Defence: Attention reloader

Remisteel

Remisteel

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Item:

Scrap Metal - Brass Casings


Closing Date:
17-December-2014 @ 10:45 a.m. EASTERN TIME

Remaining:
6 days 19 hours 18 minutes

Quantity:
gcsurplus.ca

Description:

•Non Controlled Scrap Brass
•Consists of but not limited to 9mm, 5.56mm, 7.62mm, .50 Cal
•Weight of brass = 16,170 kg
•Weight including brass, pallet, tri-wall, liner and strapping =16 890
•Each tri-wall is approximate - 1055 kg


Additional Comments:
1.Ammo Section hours of operation are: Monday - Friday, 0730 - 1600 hrs

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From what I understand, Sometimes these contain contractual conditions that the cases are not to be reloaded into ammunition. if so they can only be used for scrap.

But if this lot does not contain the stipulation then it would be several lifetimes worth of brass.
 
pearcetopher said:
what do you mean if so they can only be used for scrap

i can reload those so why cant you?
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part of the agreement you make when you bid and win the auction is that you will destroy or damage the brass cases so they cannot be used for reloading. basically it's only good if you melt down brass when they have that stipulation.
 
zelly said:
What do you think that will fetch price wise?
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Its an auction so hard to tell, but just take the going rate for scrap brass for a general Idea. Random google search for mixednbrass gave me about 53 cents/pound. Number I got was about $19,000 give or take, possibly less since its bulk.
 
I'd love to get my hands of the .50 bmg brass. I'm not sure tho now that I think about it. I made 3 seperate inert displays recently with 100 linked 50 bmg in ammo cans. By the time I put all the bullets in the cases and then linked them all it was hours and hours. Not to mention the huge blisters I got from squeezing them into the links. And it was not cheap either. Like 1 buck a case/ 50 cents a bullet/40 cents a link/25 bucks for the ammo cans a peice. I now have like 700+bucks in linked inert 50 bmg. On second thought I'm out.....
 
I'm told that IVI brass has some tin mixed in it. That saves DND a bit of money but it makes reloading the brass less desirable as it's more brittle.
 
This would be Yellow brass the condition would be unclean or dirty, find of the scrap price and undercut by 50%, anyone with storage and a way to haul it would make an easy buck... the military garbage is always up for auction and career scrappers bid on it. if you had the connections you could likely sell it to a smelter/steel company, either way it's a #### load of brass and would be a few lifetimes of brass.

Enough so that you could likely supply Canada with enough brass for reloading.

Imagine how much lead and copper jackets are downrange?
 
Remisteel said:
This would be Yellow brass the condition would be unclean or dirty, find of the scrap price and undercut by 50%, anyone with storage and a way to haul it would make an easy buck... the military garbage is always up for auction and career scrappers bid on it. if you had the connections you could likely sell it to a smelter/steel company, either way it's a #### load of brass and would be a few lifetimes of brass.

Enough so that you could likely supply Canada with enough brass for reloading.

Imagine how much lead and copper jackets are downrange?
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or how many pounds of powder went into all them.
 
The price this goes for will surprise you. Recent sales of scrap brass from GCsurplus had 8500Kg sold for over $44,000.00 and other similar sales have had similar pricing. I stopped drooling over those a couple years ago :)

Regards,

Izzit
 
Izzit said:
Yep for the math challenged it works out to $2.53 per pound.

Regards,

Izzit

(PS this was not aimed at you Remi your math was an approximation)
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No offence taken ;) besides it would not be the first time I have approximated the wrong way. I have a buddy in the steel business and he throws around $ per pound of copper and SS now and then because of the demand created by emerging third world economy.
 
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