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Best Sources for Brass

frjeff said:
My club owns all brass on ground other than mine. And, hunting for mine is like looking for a haystack in a needle. It is all over the place…..
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How much brass do you need and how picky are you about matching head-stamps?
I have had good luck in the past buying from GoneBroker dot con. There’s some good sellers on there. This is not a recommendation, just an example:
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/998762482
 
entropy said:
Do they search you going in and out to make sure you have exactly the same number of cases and same mfgr.?
I occasionally shoot at an indoor range near me, and even though they still have that rule, I always seem to leave there with more brass trhan I bought or brought in.
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I've gotten yelled at quite a bit for picking up my own brass at the local indoor range, and sometimes have had a hard time not giggling about it.

"Sir! Picking up brass is not allowed!"

"Yeah yeah, whatever."

"SIR! All brass on the ground belongs to the range!"

"So if you drop your keys, do I get dibs on your car?"

"Sir, I'm asking you to leave the range."

"Fine. As soon as I'm done picking up my brass."

I've been officially thrown out of the place three or four times, but they still let me back in...
 
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American Reloading has had some excellent deals on primed brass. 2000 of the last 3000 pieces I’ve bought in both .38 Special and .380 have been new, unfired, primed pieces. The rest of the primed brass has been fired, but cleaned. They have deals with free shipping and no hazmat fees so it’s a great deal. Also check RMR, I think they are offering the same types of deals. When you figure in the cost of primers today, the brass is almost free.
 
frjeff said:
Anyone tried brass from www.usreloadingsupply.com ?
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My email records show that I have not purchased from UsReloadingSupply but I know they have been around for a long time and would have no qualms about placing an order with them. Their 380 cleaned and polished looks like a good deal to me. I have ordered from DiamondK brass several times but mostly because they frequently have calibers that others don't. l.e. 44 mag, 50 ae, 22tcm etc.
 
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Welcome Back!

Like the others have said, Starline is a good source for new brass. I just looked and they have 380 in stock. Midway, Midsouth and Powder Valley are also a few places that I use for new brass.

RMR is a good place to shop for bullets.
 
Now that I've started loading for 9mm.......after seeing what happens to the spent brass.........and wanting to get it back to reload........one of my next tasks is going to design and build a brass catcher. I am surprised each shooting station at an indoor range and some outdoor ranges don't already have them.
 
gifbohane said:
In my indoor range I have become friendly with the SRO"s. No pickup policy in effect but they bring me brass.
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That’s a respectful way of handling it—follow the rules set by business owner.

The indoor ranges I frequent (well, only one still standing ) have an identical rule, one can collect their own brass within your box/lane but not of others nor any ahead of firing line. If someone chooses to give you theirs I guess that’s okay but I don’t know whether it is a documented rule one way or the other. Whatever RSO on duty says goes anyway.

Among other things, they want to avoid someone scrounging and potentially distracting another shooter.

My current range (NRA HQ) used to separate and sell dirty brass in 500 piece bags. 45acp was $29 w/tax—that was a great deal in these parts. They stopped during big pandemic business drop off and haven’t restarted.

But anyway, as I said when I’ve had to buy in the past, I used my home state Blue Ridge Brass—they anonymize package so snoopers don’t know what I’m getting.
 
I have a lot of 9mm brass that's seen a lot of loadings. The primer pockets were getting a little loose, but not so bad that I was going to throw them. Sounds like that's what you guys with indoor ranges need - some brass you're not afraid to lose. I figure if I get 5 loadings, I've got my money's worth and some of this is pushing 8x or 10x.

I looked over the sites in this thread, and Diamond Brass would be the one that I'd use.

My last bucket full of CCW trainer brass had a lot of really good brass and a bunch of not-so-good (all relative I guess - it all shot). Anyway, I separated it by headstamp and use the cheap stuff for IDPA and such. No sweat, no worries. Forget-bout-it.
 
Targa said:
I have never heard of a no pickup policy. I would have to takea hard pass on that membership.
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Some ranges around me don’t even allow reloads, much less pick-ups.
If my brass wasn’t free, I’d buy it at Diamond K Brass. Certified once-fired, all Remington 380Auto is $50 a 1000. Not exactly cheap but there’s no junk in it.
 
The indoor range I use to shoot at, had a policy that you could pick up your own brass but not others. Normally the other members would pick theirs up and give it to you or sweep in in your direction to pickup. I built a brass catcher to catch mine that sit on the bench top. If I could figure out how to access my uploads I would post a photo of it. It was basicly a 50 cal ammo box that I used tripod legs to support the misquito netting. was about 99% efficient. They did sell brass, to off set the cost of running the place. During the shortages for ammo it was the same group of guys there most of the time. We all reloaded, always checked to see what the other was shooting so we could keep track of each others brass.
 
Atavar said:
But do you know where I can get some .25 acp brass? The stuff is unobtanium.
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Your best bet is to put a WTB (want to buy) post in the Trading Post section of this site. I'll bet one of the members here will have some.
 
Blue68f100 said:
The indoor range I use to shoot at, had a policy that you could pick up your own brass but not others. Normally the other members would pick theirs up and give it to you or sweep in in your direction to pickup. I built a brass catcher to catch mine that sit on the bench top. If I could figure out how to access my uploads I would post a photo of it. It was basicly a 50 cal ammo box that I used tripod legs to support the misquito netting. was about 99% efficient. They did sell brass, to off set the cost of running the place. During the shortages for ammo it was the same group of guys there most of the time. We all reloaded, always checked to see what the other was shooting so we could keep track of each others brass.
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Here’s the published rule at a new fancy (very expensive) range/fitness center in northern Virginia.
  • If you plan to retrieve your own brass, please inform the RSO and ensure that it stays behind the firing line. Please note that all brass collected by the RSO is considered the property of XCAL.
 
Our local indoor shooting range sells once fired brass , swept up from range floor , mixed headstamp but the stuff is cheap . Most brass is once fired ... Check with your local shooting range .

New brass in lots of 500 can be ordered directly from Starline ... www.starlinebrass.com .

I was looking for 300 new 38 Special cases , went every where and didn't find a one, none in usual places , found them at Powder Valley , they also sell powder , primers and bullets ... good legit company www.powdervalley.com ... Prices are very reasonable or they were then ( last year )
Placed order with Powder Valley late Sunday night and had the 300 new Starline cases in my hands at noon Wednesday !
Gary
 
Not being able to retrieve my brass would be a deal breaker for me. Now if the range derived part of its income from selling brass I can understand that they would not want the "brass rats" cleaning up everything.
 
The "No picking up brass" rule seems to have gained popularity over the last ten or fifteen years, at least in my neck of the woods. I believe it stems from the fact that ranges are supplementing income by selling their own reloads, which presumably are made up at least partially from brass left on their floor. And frankly, I can understand a range instituting rules against patrons scrounging up every bit of brass they can find. Preventing folks from picking up personal property that has fallen to the floor, though, strikes me as kind of outrageous, and I would go somewhere else if there was somewhere else to go - all of our local indoor ranges have the same policy.
 
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