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yukoncat
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Please make me number 30, for your most generous offer of 45 acp brass
 
Posts: 70 | Location: TAZLINA, AK | Registered: 20 November 2008Reply With Quote
Snowwolfe
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Medium flat rate box will hold approximately 1,600 .45 cases packed full.

How does you figger that? A .45ACP case, as a rectangular solid, is .199 cubic inches. A medium flat rate box is 537.6 cubic inches. 538 over .199 is 2701 cases-- more than 2-1/2 times what my original idea was for giving these away. 1000 cases at 88 grains per case would be 12.57 pounds. Ten pounds would be 795 cases. The idea is to maximize the number of cases shipped for the least cost while being able to ship as many boxes to those who requested them. Maybe I can fill a one-pound coffee can and ship that many, but it will be in the $10.70 box plus the 44-cent stamp on my SASE. I don't have a one-pound coffee can. If anybody does, can you calculate its volume and tell us how many cases will theoretically fit into it? I want to ship between 500 and 1,000 cases. 1,000 cases would require a box of a minimum of 200 cubic inches and a bit more for interstitial volume considerations. We need to avoid having to pay for the box, so buying boxes to meet a certain number of cases sent is out of the question unless you gentleman do not mind paying two or three bucks for a lousy box. I think that's too much. So, whomever has a one-pound steel coffee can, please cipher its volume and let me know how many would fit in one. One .45ACP case is .199 cubic inches if it were a rectangular solid. Thanks...


Figured it out by filling the box and counting them, lol.
Seriously, sold many boxes of 45 brass and this is the approximate number the box will hold with just a slight bit of cushioning. Now if you want to spend the time to stack and align each case in the box am sure it will hold a lot more. My method is to pour the brass into the box untill it is full.
The USPS flat rat boxes are free and if you like you can cut one down and slide it into another before you fill the box up. Gives a little more insurance the box will not break open.


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Posts: 6653 | Location: Wasilla, Alaska | Registered: 22 February 2005Reply With Quote
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One of my shooting buddies and I would go collect the brass after the various pistol matches. He has 9 five gallon pails of 9mm brass, which I have no use for, and we both have 5 five gallon pails of 45 brass. The 40 caliber brass we threw in the weeds since neither of use have and use for that caliber.
We both remember when brass was scarce and expensive.

Jim


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homebrewer
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The 40-caliber brass we threw in the weeds...

I wish you had kept it. I've got maybe 300 cases and if my buddy who shoots it doesn't want to get into reloading, I will ask if anybody here wants it for the cost of its shipping...
 
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Keep Hope Alive. Smiler
 
Posts: 1371 | Location: Plains,TEXAS | Registered: 14 January 2008Reply With Quote
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I'd be interested, in a box of 500 or so if you havent already cut the deal off. if so, thanks anyway, that was nice of you to do!


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homebrewer
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I'd be interested in a box of 500 or so if you haven't already cut the deal off. if so, thanks anyway, that was nice of you to do!

Well, the offer still stands, but we are up to 30 or 31, now. That's pushin' it. My estimate of 20,000 in three full buckets is just that-- a wild-eyed guess. I have no idea how many will fit or if the buckets are full or not. I don't even know when the opportunity to go get them will arise. My friend is going to ask his senior-citizen mom to go over there to get them, but then how is she supposed to get them out of her Blazer? She ain't in too good a health. I just hope he and I can arrange it so that we can drive up there and get them before the man who has them gets an idea to sell them for the scrap value. This is why I will not accept any money until you have your brass...
 
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HB--------pm sent ------count me in -----if stil a go!
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OMG!-- my bow is "pull-push feed" - how dreadfully embarrasing!!!!!
 
Posts: 933 | Location: 8K Ft in Colorado | Registered: 10 December 2005Reply With Quote
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Just got a call at 1745 PST from my friend who turned me on about the brass. Seems the guy who had it got paranoid about this stupid new law they have in Kalifonia about buying ammo or some such bullshit, so he took the stuff in for its recycle value. There will be no brass received here and no brass sent out to the 32 of you who signed-up for a box. Seems there is a new law about providing several pieces of your vital information when you buy ammo in the People's Paradise of Kalifonia. The man who had it got skittish about turning over so much brass, so he took it down and scrapped it. I would assume the idiotic law would only apply to new and loaded ammo, but this man didn't want to take any chances. So we got screwed. I am sorry, gentlemen. We tried...
 
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Thanks for you effort.
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thanks for the offer! Not a problem but I would have enjoyed it.
 
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homebrewer
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I am sorry. I really wanted to do this. I would have paid the man's gas to bring them across the NV border at Bordertown, north of Reno on US 395. The cases were in Chester. Now they are in some scrapyard. I am truly sad for all of us. I will now send The Brass List to the Recycle Bin...
 
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Thanks for the effort. I would have had to buy a set of dies to reload anyhow.

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Posts: 344 | Location: Bean Town in the worthless nut state | Registered: 23 July 2005Reply With Quote
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Well heck thank you anyway for your time.
 
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CRYBABY
 
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homebrewer
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CRYBABY

I feel the same way...
 
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sourdough44
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I've never seen empty brass a problem to sell, legal wise. Not saying it isn't possible. I also have not seen to many criminals with a reloading bench.


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I also have not seen too many criminals with a reloading bench.

EXACTLY!! Criminals are too lazy and stupid to reload. Kalifonia's crazy, anti-gun laws are not at all about reducing crime. Never were. They are about restricting our Second Amendment rights. The legal axeholes can do nothing about violent crime because violent criminals do not care about laws, so the legislature adopts this phony tactic of taking away our Freedoms and then crows about how they have done so much to reduce "gun crime." Anybody ever met an inanimate object that has committed a crime? Liberals, in their infinite stupidity, blame the thing used in the crime-- never the worthless turd with his hat on sideways who actually committed the crime. Another undeniable point of evidence to prove liberals are voluntarily stupid...
 
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