Want some brass?

[Howa 9700]

For the most part the marines aren't shooting nickel plated brass and recruits certainly aren't. That brass is coming from federal agencies.

Speculation on my part. I've been to the Marine Corp Recruit Depot to attend my kid's graduation.......but they didn't let me shoot anything.

With what you and others have said, Fed or LE origin makes more sense.

 

[AJC1]

No. No it isn't. Math never is, and has never been, my friend.

And my family is full of mathematicians: engineers, a CPA, PhD in Physics.

I hate math. Use it every day in the course of my profession - at least geometry - but I dislike it intensely.

I would rather be outnumbered in a barfight than solve a quadratic equation.

My job for 23 years was mental target motion analysis. That's basically doing geometry and trig in your brain pan, competing against a guy operating a computer doing the same thing... they always won after you solved the initial problem. I laugh when cashiers can't figure out change in their head, how easy stuff evades most...

 

[MonkTx]

My job for 23 years was mental target motion analysis. That's basically doing geometry and trig in your brain pan, competing against a guy operating a computer doing the same thing... they always won after you solved the initial problem. I laugh when cashiers can't figure out change in their head, how easy stuff evades most...

I've never even heard of that so I had to Google it. Makes me think you must have done something torpedo-ish.

 

[AJC1]

I've never even heard of that so I had to Google it. Makes me think you must have done something torpedo-ish.

Sonar submarines... it's quite the adventure.

 

[Soonerpesek]

Looks like a lot of steel & nickel in the mix.

That's what I seemed to notice also.....

 

[lightman]

When I first retired I followed a few Government auctions and what I found out was the bid would stay really low right up to the end when the scrap dealers would try sniping them. Brass and Ammo Cans were mostly what I followed.

 

[CoalTrain49]

Early in the first Obama term, the practice of selling fired military brass, at least 'as fired', was stopped via Executive Order.

The order declared that all military brass was to be shredded before sale. This has been happening since.

Just another example of the hatred for our hobby, and the desire to take another slice of the salami from us.

Perhaps your remembering was a bit further back than 10 years.

Probably. I hate it when I have to remember back that far.

 

[AK Hunter]

I pick up about 25 to 50 lbs of brass from my club range each week so I don't need a big buy like this to top me out.
I just need to keep the shooters at the range to keep shooting..............& my back to hold out so I can pick it up. LOL

 

[Akula69]

Wow. Auction closed at $141,100.00 for the lot. Someone is gonna be putting nickel plated brass on the menu soon.....who might be big enough to do that, hmmm? I don't believe it would be a smelting company would buy them for the nickel (even though the current price is over 10,000.00 per troy ounce) because of the process of separating the two. However, just for ghits and siggles lets see here:

Brass is 1.50 per pound, and the ratio is approximately 95.5% brass and 4.5% nickel (on average) for a given case....so (round numbers here AC1 - don't get down in the weeds!):

67,000 x 95.5% = 63,985 pounds of brass @ $1.50/lb = $95,977.50
67,000 - 63,985 = 3,015 pounds of nickel x 16 oz per pound = 48,250 ounces of nickel x $10,000 per ounce = $482,400,000.00

Assume 20% loss and wastage; an unknown cost of shipping , and you'd end up with something around $385,997,000.00 IF you could accomplish it

Of course, the numbers change if there is more steel and less nickel coated, but there is no way to predict that ratio...

 

[Riomouse911]

Wow. Auction closed at $141,100.00 for the lot. Someone is gonna be putting nickel plated brass on the menu soon.....who might be big enough to do that, hmmm? I don't believe it would be a smelting company would buy them for the nickel (even though the current price is over 10,000.00 per troy ounce) because of the process of separating the two. However, just for ghits and siggles lets see here:

Brass is 1.50 per pound, and the ratio is approximately 95.5% brass and 4.5% nickel (on average) for a given case....so (round numbers here AC1 - don't get down in the weeds!):

67,000 x 95.5% = 63,985 pounds of brass @ $1.50/lb = $95,977.50
67,000 - 63,985 = 3,015 pounds of nickel x 16 oz per pound = 48,250 ounces of nickel x $10,000 per ounce = $482,400,000.00

Assume 20% loss and wastage; an unknown cost of shipping , and you'd end up with something around $385,997,000.00 IF you could accomplish it

Of course, the numbers change if there is more steel and less nickel coated, but there is no way to predict that ratio...

Nickel closed over $21,500 on 7-1-22 according to Markets Insider. That is down 50% from when it closed over $45K a few months ago.




Hmmmm, I may have more potential loot tied up in four coffee cans of nickel plated .38 Spl brass and a nickel plated S&W Model 49 than I have equity in my house .

Stay safe.