Where do you send your brass to be sized/trimmed and how much?

[General Lee]

I have been reading some posts lately and I have seen people say they send their brass off to people to clean/resize/trim.

First off what all do they do? Clean Resize Trim and clean the primer pockets?

Secondly how much is it? Cost per case and shipping?

 

[MissouriBullet]

This is who the big boys use:

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SCHARCH MFG. INC.
10325 County Road 120
Salida, CO 81201

Phone: (719)539-7242
Fax: (719)539-3021
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[A and O]

Funny you ask, I was thinking along the same line yesterday. There is a guy about 70 miles away from me that will process 223 brass for .05 ea plus shipping. I'll see if I can find his info later. 70 miles to me, 2,200 to you. Using flat rate boxes both ways would bring the cost up another penny or so depending on how many you want processed. I also saw a guy on GunBroker a few months back at a nickle each for 223. You may want to try there as well. Prep on bottle neck cases is very tedious/time consuming and I have a pile of over 5,000 needing to be processed.

Good luck and keep us posted.

 

[essayons21]

Check Gunbroker, there are quite a few people advertising case prep services.

 

[General Lee]

I called Scharch lol holy cow I dont have 100,000 rounds to be processed. You meant it when you said BIG boys! I would have to collect brass like the homeless people collect cans to get that much.

I will check out gunbroker and see what they have there.

Thanks guys!

 

[MissouriBullet]

I called Scharch lol holy cow I dont have 100,000 rounds to be processed. You meant it when you said BIG boys! I would have to collect brass like the homeless people collect cans to get that much.

I will check out gunbroker and see what they have there.

Thanks guys!

Yeah, I forgot to mention that the first thing they ask is "How many drums are you shipping us?"

 

[jmorris]

There is a guy about 70 miles away from me that will process 223 brass for .05 ea plus shipping.

That is what I charge to size, trim and swage.

 

[floydster]

This is beyond ridiculous in a reloading forum.

 

[rfwobbly]

+1

This is beyond ridiculous in a reloading forum.
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Smokeyloads

If I remember correctly from Spaceballs, "ludicrous" is just beyond "ridiculous".

Besides, everyone knows this is why God gave us kids. "One scoop of ice cream for every 1000 sized and trimmed brass. Now get to it!"

 

[jcwit]

Where do you send your brass to be sized/trimmed and how much?

To the bench in the room where I do my reloading.

I'll have to check with the paymaster to find out how much!

 

[1SOW]

HAHHAHa, HAHHAHHAH, HAHA, HA!

I though "ludicrous" was a political adjective.

 

[grubbylabs]

My basement and you don't want to know what it costs me.

 

[The Bushmaster]

You mean I can throw away my tumbler, calipers and case trimmer and let someone else have half the fun and charge me for it.

YOU NUTS??

That's why I have a "man cave" with all my indoor toys and firearms in it.

 

[buck460XVR]

I know there are places that will swap you loaded ammo for used brass, and that makes sense for those that don't reload at all. But, IMHO, to pay someone to just prep your brass so you can bell, charge and stuff 'em would be like payin' someone to have foreplay with your wife before sex.

 

[Fatelvis]

Save the money you would have given someone else, and buy yourself a Giraud trimmer. You'll only have to cry once, and then you'll be halfway to your "mass brass" processing goal!

 

[Hondo 60]

Send it????

This is a RELOADING board. Most of us are a bunch of cheap (deleted -- <Sam>).

The idea of spending money to send out brass when we can can do it, better & cheaper, is just a foreign concept.

 

[amlevin]

To send brass to someone else is heresy to a hard core reloader. The "prep" is part of the "fun" and another excuse to buy some toys/tools.

For my .223 I use the Dillon Rapid trim. With a separate de-capping die on the same toolhead as the trimmer, I can de-cap, size, and trim, as fast as I can pull the handle on my 650. My problem is getting a tumbler big enough. My current plan is to coat the inside of a small cement mixer with that heavy rubberized coating used in pickup truck beds, add a cover for the opening, and clean/tumble 5,000 rounds at a time. Primer Pocket cleaning is done with an RCPS cleaner mounted in a drill chuck mounted on a fan motor.

When I do the prep, I KNOW what condition my brass is in. When someone else prep's it, why would they care. Every case is another nickel for them, even if it does have a split neck, blown out primer pocket, or cracked body.

 

[Maj Dad]

(deleted -- <Sam>)

Processing brass is one of the things which, while perhaps tedious, helps keep me sane on days I can't get out. 5.56 is a little more trying than 7.62 but I still can get totally absorbed for a couple of hours & forget about what the politicians are doing to us...

 

[medalguy]

Well I suppose I agree with most of these posts, but there are just times when I need a LOT of 5.56 or 7.62 brass processed and I'm too busy to do it myself. I have several fast shooters that eat this stuff up in large quantities.

I send my brass to Custom Brass Processing, Abilene Texas. He full length resizes, swages the military primer crimp, trims to my specified length, and tumbles bright for .03 each for rifle, .02 for 45 and 9mm.

Frankly I wouldn't do brass for this but he has automated the process so he can do it and make a little money at these prices. I've used him for about two years, and highly recommend him.

 

[mickeygrimreaperblueeyes]

If you're going to pay for case prep, why not just buy new ammo all the time. It's crazy to think that reloaders do this to save money and now the great lazy american way has brought a simple hobby to a commercial necessity.

I worked with people like this in a Union Shop, "IT'S NOT MY JOB".

Why don't we just send them off to mexico.

 

[billybob44]

(deleted -- <Sam>)

Processing brass is one of the things which, while perhaps tedious, helps keep me sane on days I can't get out. 5.56 is a little more trying than 7.62 but I still can get totally absorbed for a couple of hours & forget about what the politicians are doing to us...

George, you can do that in ONLY a couple of hours.

 

[Kentucky Jelly]

I will process brass for ya. I like doing it.

 

[J.R.W.]

A bucket 'o brass, a case trimmer, and a 12pk is a great way to kill a Sunday afternoon watching football.

 

[R.W.Dale]

I'm a handloader not a reloader and I've concidered purchasing processed .223 brass from gunbroker to provide for a 1000 rd plus batch for a fraction of what inaccurate steel cased stuff costs.

Effectively turning my single stage operation into a progressive

 

[snuffy]

My first reaction to the title of this thread was, WHAT pay someone else to do what I can do? Then I realized that some just don't have the time, others have arthritis so bad that all that upper body work would/could be painful.

I can and will do that for myself. I'm too particular about just how it gets done to farm it out to anyone else.

I use the lee trimmers exclusively. With a drill motor, I can trim, inside-outside chamfer, wipe off lube wile it's spinning, uniform flash holes, even polish with steel wool. Try that with that giraud.