Some co-workers of mine asked if I am interested in splitting the cost with them for a lot of military brass. One of them inquired about it and it is both M-16 and M-249 fired brass.Is it really worth buying?
http://www.govliquidation.com/auction/view?id=3357586&convertTo=USD
Is that pick up only, or will they ship it? I would think the freight charges would be ungodly for that amount of brass.
Quick google search shows once fired brass at about 6 -10 cents/round online.
At 10 cents/round, you’d have to get 1500 useable cases from that pile to make it worthwhile. That’s only 62 per ammo can- there are plenty more than that in the can.
THere shouldn’t be any difference between M16 and M249 brass, except that the M249 brass might be slightly marred by the links. I wouldn’t think that it would matter.
Chances are you’ll be bidding against commercial reloaders.
Last time I bid on 1x fired brass there I stopped at $1.50 per pound. I think it went for a little over $2.00 per pound.
Figure 75 cases per pound that works out to a little under $.03 each.
Not bad if you don’t have a lot of trashed cases and don’t have to pay for transport.
The sales price for the lot was $1,325 plus the 10% buyer’s premium for a total of $1,501, not including any packaging and shipping.
It should be noted that the lot weight of 525lbs includes the pallet and ammo cans.
Was this a good deal?
Is lake city better brass?
There is also a risk factor as noted above.
249 fired brass is highly undesireable… I don’t know exactly why, but the comment is often posted in the internuts.
The chambers on machine guns (m249) are looser than they are in a M16. So the brass from a machine gun is worked much harder and is not able to be reloaded as much if at all.
You beat me to it, I’ve heard from several people that machine gun brass is stretched more due to the larger chambers and makes resizing more difficult. There was great debate that a certain commerical reloading company was using machine gun brass and it was on occasion blowing up guns.
Something about loose chambers, firing from an open bolt, and extreme stretching of the cases leading to case head separation.