Once fired brass use

[kenr74]

I have been collecting my spent shells forever. No intention of ever reloading them but they always find their way into a bucket. I don't really have enough of any caliber to mess with selling them and was wondering if there were any creative ways to use them.

Anybody do anything interesting with empties?

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[Mark W.]

Yes reload them

 

[Phrank]

Ship them to me.

 

[rick benjamin]

DRRC recycles brass, Money goes to junior shooter programs.

 

[kenr74]

Thanks RB. Will look into that.

 

[Certaindeaf]

make a cannon

 

[Pops1911]

Freedom Munitions over in ID also buys back brass. Good folks there. You might want to check them out too.

 

[Certaindeaf]

If it's predominantly one thing or another, most any handloader would jump on buying all of it for, at the very least, scrap prices.. and reload that and perhaps then offer what he doesn't reload for at the same scrap price.. for reloading.
Then at least the brass will be used as intended.. for shooting, not be melted down for beanie baby monocles or something were it "scrapped".

 

[thecarfarmer]

Back to the OP's question: I actually have a use for 'em.

I like to make biker bells out of 'em for my gun-toting Harley riding friends.

 

[BWH]

Back to the OP's question: I actually have a use for 'em.

I like to make biker bells out of 'em for my gun-toting Harley riding friends.

A picture of one of your belts would be kool to see!

 

[mjbskwim]

Some gal in Seattlehas a booth at the Feemont farmers' market? I've never been but heard about it.
Freemont of all places. Oh yeah,she makes earrings and such out of them.
I would think the locals would ban her from the market
I made one of those Boreal coats out of a wool blanket. It's a larger hoodie the 'bushcrafters' make. I didn't want a hoodie,so I just made a big collar for it with laces to tie it closed in front.
Then I took some 45acp brass and made the loops to run the laces thru.
Drilled the primer pocket out a little and tried to use them like a rivet but ended up gluing them in place.
They can be used for many things as accents also

 

[Stomper]

I have a linked belt of spent 7.62 blanks (somewhere) that I "smuggled" out after I fired them through my M60 back in '86.

 

[Mark W.]

I knew a guy who made Pot pipes from necked rifle cases is that the kind of thing your interested in?

 

[NWGlockgal]

Freedom Munitions over in ID also buys back brass. Good folks there. You might want to check them out too.

I second this. I've sent brass back to them when I placed an order and it saved me $75 after the price of shipping it there.
There is a LGS in Hillsboro that buys brass, currently $1.80 a pound. Don't remember the name of it though.....
As far as keeping it to something creative with, I've seen quite a bit of jewelry made out of it.

 

[edslhead]

If you sharpen the rims with a file and then a stone, they make a good cigar punch cutter.

 

[kenr74]

The biker bell sounds interesting. Not sure how much I have total. Maybe 20#. I don't shoot enough to have a huge pile of it. Just figured there was a better use than the dumpster.

 

[Mikej]

Am I dense? What's a biker bell?

 

[mjbskwim]

Am I dense? What's a biker bell?

Yes but that's OK
Biker bells are a bell you hang under your bike to ward off the road goblins

 

[defending fathers 1787]

I have been collecting my spent shells forever. No intention of ever reloading them but they always find their way into a bucket. I don't really have enough of any caliber to mess with selling them and was wondering if there were any creative ways to use them.

Anybody do anything interesting with empties?

Washougal River Cartridge will credit you if you recycle it with them.
Open 10 to 2pm on Sat.

 

[rawen2]

Yes but that's OK
Biker bells are a bell you hang under your bike to ward off the road goblins

But they only work if the bell is gifted to you. Can't just go buy one - doesn't have the magic. Got one hanging on my bike. So far it's kept the gremlins away...