Once-fired-brass.com righteous dudes!

[HighLander51]

http://www.once-fired-brass.com/products.htm

TECH EQUIPMENT SALES, INC.
1200 MARKLEY ST
NORRISTOWN PA 19401-3233
610-279-0370


Ok, hosers, this is the place! 5,600 9mm mixed, tumbled clean, ready to load for $129 plus flat rate ship of about $15. So my regular brass guy got inflationitis, so I google up these guys and decide to give it a go. Anyway, order confirm and ship note the next day, that’s always good. 10 or so days go by, no brass. Get a note from the post office of attempt delivery with $80 due! Well, turns out the post office broke the sh*t out of the original package, probably because of weather on or about September 6 on the east coast, come on, we don’t have weather in SoCal. So my local post office trys to jack me for the $$$. I email once fired, and their guy actually calls my local PO where they try to frame him also. So I refuse delivery, in the meantime, once fired is back on the email, offering me my money back or resend a new order. Ok, I am running low, like around 4,000 cases, so new order. Bam! Same day ship note, arrives in SoCal on Friday from Wednesday in PA. Course my local guys take until Monday to attempt delivery, with a nasty little note saying ‘heavy parcel’, what 50lbs? And I just received a Montana Gold bullet order the week before at 68 lbs. Hell, I used to carry a 70 lb mail sack when I worked as a carrier back in the late 60s. Anyway, skip all that, got the brass today, clean mixed commercial stuff, ready to go. And check this, the net weight of the brass is 49.25 lbs, and the average 9 mm casing weights 59.5 grains. I won’t tell you how many grains are in a pound, but I can tell you there is way more that 5,600 cases in the 49.25 lbs. Give these guys an order, you won’t regret it.

[Dark Mod]

Ill give them a shot, i like hearing about businesses who do things right instead of only hearing about the bad ones

[problemchild]

Mixed is usually "range" brass and you risk your life and limb shooting range brass.

The last time I was at the range I shot 45acp that had been loaded 13x and was starting to crack. I left it at the range instead of picking it up. Good luck if you get brass like that in your gun and you dont have a fully supported chamber----KABOOM there goes your gun and hands.


Just my word of caution to you.....

[Bill Steele]

Less than $.03 a case is a good price.

http://www.once-fired-brass.com/products.htm

Thanks for the tip.

[HighLander51]

Mixed is usually "range" brass and you risk your life and limb shooting range brass.

The last time I was at the range I shot 45acp that had been loaded 13x and was starting to crack. I left it at the range instead of picking it up. Good luck if you get brass like that in your gun and you dont have a fully supported chamber----KABOOM there goes your gun and hands.


Just my word of caution to you.....

Cracked brass DOES NOT CAUSE KABOOMS. I ran a G21 Glock in competition to over 125,000 rounds with reloaded brass, many more than 13X, in fact I marked several cases that went over 200 times. Double charges and bullet setback cause kabooms, not cracked brass.... not once fired brass. The thinnest part of the case is at the mouth, where it splits/cracks. The worst that can happen is it won't feed.

How did you know it was reloaded only 13 times?

[Clownpuncher]

Wow... that is a great find. Even better than brassman brass, I wish they separated it by headstamp like brassman..

While I understand the concern for once fired, I think if you inspect it and reload it properly it will be fine. I know most of the brass from brassman comes from police ranges. They typically don't use reloads so it is once fired.

They even link to CALGUNS in their links section.

[problemchild]

Cracked brass DOES NOT CAUSE KABOOMS. I ran a G21 Glock in competition to over 125,000 rounds with reloaded brass, many more than 13X, in fact I marked several cases that went over 200 times. Double charges and bullet setback cause kabooms, not cracked brass.... not once fired brass. The thinnest part of the case is at the mouth, where it splits/cracks. The worst that can happen is it won't feed.

How did you know it was reloaded only 13 times?

200 huh?

If you get brass that has the glock bulge and then reloaded numerous times that bulged area will be weakened.

6PPC benchrest shooters "work" their brass very little because they set their necks up to requie very little resizing, and may use the same set of 50 cases for the entire useful life of a barrel (>1000 shots); implying at least 20 reloadings per case.

20 in a BR rifle is far from 200 in a glock which I find difficult to believe.

Anyway just be careful with the unknown source/use range brass.

[HighLander51]

20 in a BR rifle is far from 200 in a glock which I do NOT believe at all.

Ok, you shoot bench rest, I shoot action pistol. Whole different ball game, 45acp loaded to book loads lasts a very long time. There was no bulge... how else would it get into the chamber?

Besides we divulge, try a small quantity of rifle brass from these guys, and report back.

[socal44]

Check their prices. Not all of it is a deal.
Their fired 45 Colt is 29.95/100.
NEW Starline 45 Colt @ Midway is 21.99/100. At Grafs it's 21.49

[HighLander51]

Check their prices. Not all of it is a deal.
Their fired 45 Colt is 29.95/100.
NEW Starline 45 Colt @ Midway is 21.99/100. At Grads it's 21.49

Don't know about .45 colt, only 9mm, in the thousands. They have a good price.

[Na-vah-duh]

Good deal on 9mm not much else

[bruceflinch]

Nice find Highlander!

I shoot mostly range pickup brass. After cleaning it is pretty obvious which is once fired & what has been reloaded. Most of the brass on our public range is once fired & beautiful. The once fired has a nice headstamp. Now the brass on the Action Pistol range doesn't attract me too much.....

[HighLander51]

Nice find Highlander!
Now the brass on the Action Pistol range doesn't attract me too much.....

Yea, especially major 9mm cases, well, whats left of them... sometimes we get lucky and walk on to a 'Police Pile' after a qualification.

[Homebrew2]

Did you find the brass to be commercial, ie, no crimped mil primers?

[fabguy]

this is straight from wikipedia
"There are precisely 7,000 grains per avoirdupois pound in the Imperial and U.S. customary units, and 5,760 grains in the Troy pound."
Just trying to help, not trying to be a smart**s