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IrishRebel92

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Re: source of once fired 7.62x54r cases
« Reply #15 on: October 13, 2014, 07:29:29 PM »

my range doesn't let you pick up your brass, so that is why i don't have any of my own fired brass. (they claim it's for safety reasons to keep people from picking up and reloading damaged brass, but i call B.S. on that)
Yeah, that's BS!  There's no such policy at my range.  Find a new range with a better policy would be my advice.  May be worth a longer drive to save your valuable cases. Then buy Prvi at $0.70-75 cents per round, enjoy firing it, and reload the brass.

i kinda let it slide because they're a family owned free-to-shoot type range that makes it's money from gun rentals, ammo sales and training courses.

their cast "store brand" ammo as i call it, is in white boxes with nothing but the caliber and bullet weight labeled on it so i know thats where peoples brass goes. it's always priced $1-$2 cheaper then anything else but seems reasonably good for what it is.

the bullets are probably cast from range scrap since they don't let people collect that either. (oh, and yes they have manufacturer's license)

i've been on a local gun clubs waiting list for a few months now so until then, i'll just have to deal with this place.
Yeah, sounds like a much different business model if it's free to shoot.  I think the private indoor range we have here requires that you buy their ammo and you may have to pay to shoot to...not sure, never been enticed to try it.  Waiting lists to join a gun club!?   :shock: Glad I don't have that problem here in the wild, wild west  :lol:  The only problem I have is limited hours of operation (9-3 W, F, Sa, Su), but it's a really great outdoor range and rarely a wait for one of the 20 shooting benches at the small arms range (that goes to 100 for paper targets and gongs from 200-450.


they let you bring your own ammo but most people buy theirs since, like i said, they price their house reloads cheaper then even the tula they sell.

Lostinspace

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Re: source of once fired 7.62x54r cases
« Reply #16 on: May 11, 2015, 04:58:13 PM »
Back during the summer a friend of mine who own a LGS / reloading / bullet casting business was buying 55 gal. barrels of mixed brass from some indoor range.  He cleaned and reloaded the common calibers for the range to cover the cost of the brass and kept the rest from his own use either selling the cleaned brass or reloading it for sale to the public or other ranges as well as the local PD for practice ammo.

Among the barrels of brass were quiet a few once fire PRVI and Winchester 7.62 x 54r case which he sold to me and my brother for $15 a 100.  We ended up with around 500+ cases each.  I just finished the last batch of 150 cases which we were able to get which are now all sized,cleaned,trimmed to length and bagged and tagged.

Once fired 54r brass is just something you don't run across hardly ever other than the stuff we were able to get just by pure luck,I've only ever seen new unfired brass online.  Graf has about the best deal going.

Reloading berdan primed 54r cases is pretty much a waste of time unless you have some of the Albanian brass case ammo.  The problem is that with the exception of the Albanian 54r berdan brass the berdan primer pockets on all other 54r ammo brass or steel are much larger than the available berdan primers sold at Powder Valley or DAG Ammo which are made for mainly these calibers http://www.dagammo.com/shop/non-corrosive-berdan-primer-c-7/kv762n-large-rifle-berdan-primers-5000-primers-p-47.html?zenid=510ac077e74ef32beafa8fc234122b96 as are the ones at Powder Valley.   

Both stores also carry the LR berdan primers that will work in any steel or brass case 7.62 x 39 ammo that requires berdan primers to reload without having to modify the case. I'm sure your aware you can swage a piece of brass or copper tubing into the over sized berdan primer pocket 54r case using the RCBS primer pocket swage die so that it will take a standard LR primer but case life will be short on the steel case and I don't recommend any full power loads,just light cast bullet plinker loads,but thats just me being on the safe side.

He wouldn't happen to have any 7.5x55 swiss boxer brass would he.  Looking for some for my K31

NLMosin

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Re: source of once fired 7.62x54r cases
« Reply #17 on: May 11, 2015, 06:31:17 PM »
I saved my last tuna can of 188/82 cases (440)and they are yours if you'll cover the shipping. Better for them to have a second life than be made into a coffee table...