Curious find in used brass bucket at range yesterday.

orpington · Jul 16, 2017

Yesterday I found .30-40 Krag brass in the spent brass bucket at the range. 10 rounds. This seems extremely unusual to me as I would think that most rounds chambered in firearms that have not been commercially available in decades would be of interest, for shooting purposes, to those who reload, unlike the more common finds, such as .222, .308, .270, and .30-06. As I have 2 Springfield 1898's, I will put my find to good use.

Just seems rather curious to me, and hence this thread.

Now all I need to find are a few dozen .50-70 Government discards.

pert near · Jul 16, 2017

Finding .50-70's would indeed be rare & a great find! But .30-40 Krag is not so rare & ammo is readily available - at least here in Texas. I see cases left at our range every so often. Midway sell brand new Rem Krag brass for $56 per 100.

LoonWulf · Jul 16, 2017

Havent found any krag brass here yet, tho ive seen a few krag shooters. They get uppity when u get near their pile of brass, so do the .375 win guys...My feathers ruffle when folks get near my wierd brass to tho.

Oddest brass ive found has been 357max and 25auto

Sunray · Jul 16, 2017

"....30-40 Krag is not so rare & ammo is readily available..." Both brass and ammo is only loaded "seasonally" by Remington and Winchester with no mention of what season that is either. Readily available it ain't. There are constant requests on all the assorted forums about where one can find .30-40 Krag ammo or brass.
Midway shows Remington brand (only) as "Unavailable - Limited Production". No ammo in stock at all. Graf's is currently showing their own brand at $42.99 per 50 though. PCI brand ammo only.
Anyway, you have no idea what has been done to or how often it has been done with range brass.

orpington · Jul 16, 2017

In my experience, range brass tends to be either once-fired stuff (or so it appears) by those who don't reload, or obviously well used stuff probably discarded by someone who does reload.

mstreddy · Jul 17, 2017

I'm one of those very few 30-40 Krag shooters. I've never found any range brass for it. I only ever found 4 boxes of ammo for it in the years I've owned the caliber. And yeah finding factory brass for it is rare as well. If I was near to you, I'd take it off your hands.
Reminds me I need to bring it out to the range again.

Lafitte · Jul 18, 2017

I found some 470 Nitro Express brass. To me that is really unusual, especially in Texas

Lafitte

Archie · Jul 18, 2017

orpington said:
Yesterday I found .30-40 Krag brass in the spent brass bucket at the range. 10 rounds. This seems extremely unusual to me as I would think that most rounds chambered in firearms that have not been commercially available in decades would be of interest, for shooting purposes, to those who reload, unlike the more common finds, such as .222, .308, .270, and .30-06. As I have 2 Springfield 1898's, I will put my find to good use.

Just seems rather curious to me, and hence this thread.

Now all I need to find are a few dozen .50-70 Government discards.

mstreddy · Jul 18, 2017

As I have 2 Springfield 1898's, I will put my find to good use.

Don't know how I missed that part. I was too happy over Krag brass showing up somewhere in this dimension.

armoredman · Jul 18, 2017

Found 5, 500SW Mag cases. Gave four to a buddy, kept one as a conversation piece. Or shot glass, not sure yet.

LoonWulf · Jul 18, 2017

https://www.buffaloarms.com/reloadi...caliber/30-40-krag-cases-jam3040krag?___SID=U

For you Kragers

Horsey found that site a while back, looks like captech used to be Jamisons.....
Home site
http://www.captechintl.com/products.php?cat=7

lightman · Jul 19, 2017

I find more odd/rare brass before or during hunting season. The rest of the year its 9mm, 40 and 223.

Bbear · Jul 21, 2017

30-40 is difficult enough to find. At either of the local ranges, I've never seen any on the ground. I did find one 30 Newton case once.

Catpop · Jul 21, 2017

Lafitte said:
I found some 470 Nitro Express brass. To me that is really unusual, especially in Texas

Lafitte

I thought that was the standard round for Texas posums on the half shell. But then everything's big in Texas, right :rofl:

dartor · Jul 21, 2017

I found a full box of 257 Weatherby Magnum cases put neatly back in the box recently. Also 20 rounds of 458 Socom brass and occasionally 50 beowulf. 9, 40, 45 and 223 by the bucketful.

LoonWulf · Jul 22, 2017

dartor said:
I found a full box of 257 Weatherby Magnum cases put neatly back in the box recently. Also 20 rounds of 458 Socom brass and occasionally 50 beowulf. 9, 40, 45 and 223 by the bucketful.

Wish i could find socom brass here, i know guys that shoot it besides me, but no one stocks ammo so they horde their brass.

armoredman · Jul 22, 2017

Someone out here shoots 300 Whisper a lot...and leaves some for me.

DM~ · Jul 22, 2017

Lafitte said:
I found some 470 Nitro Express brass. To me that is really unusual, especially in Texas
Lafitte

From what I read on the DR forums, there's probably more 470 owners in Texas, than any other state...

DM

Pelo801 · Jul 22, 2017

I once found a few pieces of 7.82 Warbird Lazzeroni.

CoalTrain49 · Jul 23, 2017

A few days ago someone left me a box of 300 WSM brass and a hand full of 300 RUM

The only problem is I don't reload it. Heck, I've never even heard of those cartridges.

I didn't see the guy who shot the 300 RUM. :uhoh:

I usually go to the range during the week when the brass rats are working. I find all kinds of strange stuff in the brass bucket.

loadedround · Jul 24, 2017

Regarding the found 30-40 cartridge, please remember that several years ago Ruger chambered their single shot No.3 rifle ( and possibly their No. 1 rifle) in this caliber and that brass may of been from one of those Ruger single shots. Just a thought.

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