Question about 223 brass

[ylwman]

In this link, the person is selling brass with damaged necks. Are they reloadable. I have been sorting out range brass to sell and the ones that I see with the same damage, I just toss in my scrap pile. I was going to sell them to a recycler, but if there are people that want it, I will sell to them instead. I would rather see someone reload it, than have it melted down for scrap.

Thanks for any advice.

http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?t=246981

[CGT80]

A good portion of that brass would be ok, in my opinion. Before I changed the gas port bushing in my mini 14 it would throw brass 60 feet away and dent the necks and mouths. I tumbled the crap out of it and as long as the mouth wasn't really crushed, I sized them. After sizing they looked like new. If they were bent so much that they wouldn't feed into the sizing die, I would chuck them. Small curved bends will size out. A sharp crease might weaken the brass. That brass does seem a bit beat up though.

[joelogic]

Good .223 brass goes for $50 per 1k and scrap brass goes for $.70 per pound. So what would you sell it for that would be worth your time $15 per 1k? But I dont know who would buy it.

[juelz919]

Depends on the amount of damage?
If you are located anywhere near Sac and they aren't completely ruined i would buy some up

[buffybuster]

That brass looks just like it what comes out of a M249 SAW. If so, you're not going to get too many reloads out of it.

Needs to be tumble cleaned, deprimed, primer pocket crimps removed. Most of the mouth dings should come out with resizing, but you'll loose any with a rolled ding (unless you want to hand work those). If these came from a MG, they might need roll-sizing.