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I am in a local police academy and we just wrapped up about 65hrs of firearms training and man did i make out like a bandit on free once fired brass!!

We started out with pistols and i began picking up the brass and quickly realized it was a lot of brass and really muddy so i quit! lol. Last night we finished up with some revolver training and AR15 training. I was able to fill an empty shotgun ammo case/cardboard box that holds say 500rds of shotgun ammo about 1/2 full of blazer and Winchester 38spl and LC and Winchester 5.56/223 brass! Id say there is 200-300 pieces of 5.56 brass and 100 pieces of 38spl brass but the very best part is when i asked to pickup the brass the lead firearms instructor who also teaches at several other academies says if you want brass I got brass! He says he has several buckets at home of once fired and he doesn't reload! He said he will bring them to me!

All this will be once fired and pretty much Winchester, Remington or federal pistol brass and LC and Winchester 223/5.56 brass!
 
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If ya run out of storage room let us know...we can “store” it for ya.
I'm sure some of it maybe trashed I found a lot of muddy steel cases yesterday i thought was brass. The range has about a 25-30 degree grade and it makes it a muddy mess. I wish i grabbed all the 45acp cases too but they got smashed into the mud! The 38spl has been spoken for by a friend and the 5.56 will replenish the stock ive already loaded 3-4 times and will get tossed.

I want to see these buckets he brings me. I may just have to buy a FART tumbler if he does that! :)
 
Spoken like a true reloader.

Last December year we went out to the mountains to do some shooting. A little cool in the morning but no snow on the ground and I spent the first hour picking up 5.56 and .308 brass by the hundreds. It was like Christmas all over again.

Congratulations on the score!
 
Congrats....take advantage of it while you can. I has a similar supply a while back, LEO issued ammo and no takers for the brass. Local Captain gave me permission to go to their range and collect what I wanted. Unfortunately for me at the time most of it was .40 S&W and 9mm. Still there was a small amount of .45ACP and .38s from BUGs I did use. Most of the .40 and 9mm went in my recycle bin and was scrapped out. Wasn't long until the Captain found out what brass was going for and rescinded the access I had to their range. Still, while it lasted, I was like a kid all alone in a candy shop...........
 
I was collecting the .40 brass when I was in and yes you aquire alot of once fired brass. It was so easy that I started to collect the brass twice a year after the Academy during qualifications.
 
Congrats on your score and good luck in your career.
I am surprised they still do revolver training.
 
Congrats on your score and good luck in your career.
I am surprised they still do revolver training.
Thank you!

We just did familiarization with them. Model 19 and 686 as well as an unknown N frame. They let us fire a few cylinders a piece.
 
Back in the late 60s my neighbor shot skeet.
When he was in the Navy in Subic Bay he got the local guy to save him the empty 12 Ga. hulls.
He had over 10,000 once fired Winchester AA hulls with the empty boxes.
He was nice enough to teach me how to reload his shotgun shells and I spent hours reloading them.
Years later Tom Sawyer and the fence came to mind. :)
 
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