Shipping spent brass.
- Thread starter East
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Just as a caveat - if you're sending it long distance then use regular parcel or expedited parcel. They ship via trucks. Anything else will go via air and that entails more scrutiny - it shouldn't really matter but why tempt fate!
- Location
- Western Manitoba
After a few "iffy" purchases, I no longer would be a buyer like that - if seller is saying it is once fired - I want to see the original primer (plus maybe sealant) in the case. Same for tumbled and cleaned - on my own brass, I think fired 5 times and tumbled looks about like new. I have not see ads for 5 times or 8 times fired brass - all claim is once fired, but then as if effort made to disguise any contrary evidence. I have reloading tools - I am quite able to remove primers. I have a stainless steel pin tumbler - I am quite able to make them shiny, if that is important to me. And, as the buyer, I pay the postage cost to mail to me. Multiple previous fired brass is just not worth to me what previously once fired brass is worth.
About only possible exception that I can think of would be former military brass who's primer pocket has NOT been swaged - I do not know how to insert a new primer, without dealing with the crimp or staking.
I’m with you. The last batch of “once fired” brass I bought had been tumbled and de primed. You could easily push primers in by hand on most of them. 50% of the ones that took a primer split the neck on the first firing. Luckily the seller was reasonable about it and claimed that he had bought it as once fired as well. It was lapua brass.
- Location
- Western Manitoba
I had to re-read your post a couple times, but I agree with you - the few-cents-under $20 flat rate box - 5 Kg / 11 pound weight limit - "Small Box" Flat Rate is a good deal to mail to any address in Canada. There is sometimes some savings with Regional Bubble Envelopes, but not often. And usually the flat rate box is priced less than even the discount with the SFSB account with Canada Post for a parcel. Is "shocking" to some that it costs $20 to mail something from Manitoba to them - welcome to 2022 - it is not 1976 any more ...
