The most expensive "scrap" I ever purchased. Worth it!

[jmorris]

I'm also fairly certain that military brass isn't sent to civilian scrap metal yards to be melted down. My understanding is that it goes back to the factory and gets remanufactured

It auctioned off to the highest bidder. Doesn’t matter if you are a manufacturer, scrap metal business or a fry cook at McDonald’s, you make the highest bid and it’s yours.

 

[H&R Glock]

My beer can's heart just skipped a beat. She's looking at a lot of family members going to the crematory. She will be going there soon too if I can stop crying over the picture and spilled beer!
RIP aluminum family!

 

[mcb]

It auctioned off to the highest bidder. Doesn’t matter if you are a manufacturer, scrap metal business or a fry cook at McDonald’s, you make the highest bid and it’s yours.

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Got to watch those auctions sometime they require you to bring your own equipment and de-mill the stuff before you can leave with it. A friend knew a guy that won one for 50 BMG brass and failed to read the fine print that said the cases had to be demilled before leaving the base. He hat to get a hammer and crush every case before he could leave. Read the description and requirements very carefully on those .mil auctions.

 

[.455_Hunter]

The ammo supply civilians on any Army base know exactly how brass by weight you are supposed to turn-in for a given range draw, and get quite upset when the quantity you present is less than expected. I can't remember if it was an O3 or O5 signature level for a missing "residue" memorandum.

Funny that it all goes into a big box for sale.

 

[Terry G]

I see at least 3 OMMs in that pile...what happened there?

In the early Eighties the Federal DOJ was still using revolvers, both S&W and Colt. I was a firearm instructor and snatched up a six inch OMM as my range gun. All Instructors had to be armed at all times. That gun just shot so sweet! The change came to 9 MM and of course we all had to rte-qualify as Instructors with S&W, Glock, Ruger, Colt, and SIg 9MM's while the powers to be decided which one was going to be issued. The word came down to torch all the revolver's. I tried to buy that OMM, but no way, I might shoot someone with it! So there they went. Not just the OMM's, Detective Specials, Chief Specials, M10, Colt OP's everything. What a waste!

 

[NIGHTLORD40K]

In the early Eighties the Federal DOJ was still using revolvers, both S&W and Colt. I was a firearm instructor and snatched up a six inch OMM as my range gun. All Instructors had to be armed at all times. That gun just shot so sweet! The change came to 9 MM and of course we all had to rte-qualify as Instructors with S&W, Glock, Ruger, Colt, and SIg 9MM's while the powers to be decided which one was going to be issued. The word came down to torch all the revolver's. I tried to buy that OMM, but no way, I might shoot someone with it! So there they went. Not just the OMM's, Detective Specials, Chief Specials, M10, Colt OP's everything. What a waste!