Who is hoarding all the .45 acp brass?

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Summer is over .. Cold weather setting in .. Canada Ammo pushed at least 1000 combos out the door representing 1,000,000 rounds of extra Norc brass out there, and there does not seem to be a over abundance of brass in the market place .. Just guessing on the number ... Could easily be 2,000,000 rounds

A lot of those I can't wait posts were new shooters , not likely to be reloading , so they gathered the rounds and are holding them, or they left them on the ground and established brass rats picked them up ...

So everyone is into reloading now, there is a pile of empty cases out there somewhere, or the new shooters were very frugal with their ammo usage ... Find it a bit surprising more was not for sale this fall ..
 
I've no experience in indoor range, but can you actually pick up your brass ? especially when shot from semi-auto firearms.
 
Interesting observation, OP. My bet is it mostly ended up on the ground.

x0ra, it depends on the range. Some places let you pick it up, some get uppity if you do.


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O.K. If on the ground/floor it will get picked up and sold .. unless a gravel pit .. but no ATT to gravel pit .. if picked up then where is it , as no commercial brass sellers having a sale or indicating great stocks of brass .. EE slim to none

Is it going south? .. Comercial reloads in the USA? .. I just find it strange the .45 brass market did not at least get a small bump ...

SFRC .. Wolf Remanufactured online portal .. Still the usual .. SOLD OUT .. If wolf is buying brass they are not reloading it ! .. So then one asks .. Do we have the powder , or are outfits like Wolf Remanufactured ammo just gathering up the surplus ..
 
09outlander said:
A lot of guys hoard their spent brass, I've got around 6-7k pieces of 45 acp sitting in my reloading room.
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Respect that, but you are an established gatherer, I presume you did not gather 6k pieces this summer, so where did the "extra" surplus of brass go that would have been generated this last six months by increased supply of norc ammo into the market place.

I shot through a case of Norc ammo this summer for the brass, as it is about $.10 cents a round more costly than reloading with a berry's copper coated projectile, and if one was to purchase brass, one would be paying close a large portion of that $.10 per case on cost and postage anyway ..

On the ground at my small range I gathered 2k of 9mm and 500 40 S&W over the whole summer and I am the only one who shoots .45 .. The only .45 brass I found was one or two of mine I missed the week before ..

I have just been surprised, not withstanding that like you and I there care established collectors , there was not more brass for sale this fall ..
 
Our club seems to be comprised of established reloaders, and we are also required to pick up our own brass. The club even supplies one of those roofing magnets to pick up steel cased. You can leave unwanted brass in buckets, but pickings are pretty slim.
 
Any one have sample shipping costs for 1000 .45 ACP brass and is the Norinco stuff in demand for reloading???? I am using it and it seems to be just fine but the amount I have is enough that it has only gone through one reloading and lots has not been reloaded.
 
Last week at my local scrap dealer they were paying $1.94 per lb. for scrap brass.
I got $108 cash for my jug of spent primers :)

If a guy doesn't reload, picking them up is still worthwhile.
 
Wait.....spent primers can be scrapped for cash?!

Here I've been throwing out pounds of it......

Sigh. Oh well lesson learned. Anyone have a contact for a Calgary recycler?
 
Custom Reloading in the Dealers forum has a good quantity of once fired 45 brass in stock
Large and Small Primers.
Most has been cased prepped on a machine.
Deprimed Vacumn tested for crackes ,primer pocket swedged on small primer size and full lenth resized a second time.
$125.00/1000
Give Brad or John a call.
All take care
curese (John)--jpar@shaw.ca
 
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