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Trying to secure more used 30 Carbine brass to clean and reload to feed my newly acquired NPM M1. Is any old military Lake City brass still around or is that just a pipe dream? I just purchased 200 pieces of new Great Lakes brass and the price was a bit salty. Any direction on how best to locate 30 Carbine brass at a reasonable cost would be appreciated. I do watch Gunbroker and I'm going to try some local gun shows, is the CMP a resource?
The CMP forums as it will occasionally show up for sale. The CMP sold a lot of Vietnam era vintage Lake City carbine ammo a few years ago.
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Former Prairie Submarine Commander
We appearently never crossed paths or you would have been sunk. I was part of the Prarie Navy flying P2V Neptunes. We did good work - the closest sub was about 500 miles and it was on display in chicago.
Where in Colorado Springs? I'm down on the south side.
Sarge
I see used carbine brass for sale periodically on the CMP ammo for sale board - usually around $10 per hundred (and mostly commercial brass) plus shipping. I have nearly 200 casings myself - when I have over 200 that's where they'll be posted in bags of 100... I'd guess that Lake City won't be very common - mine are either PPU or Aguila (the PPU brass looks first rate - my opinion....).
I see carbine brass posted on CMP every few weeks - check daily and you should find all you need... I'd also say that's the place to check for carbine parts as well.
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I'm up on the north side.
Jon
30 Caliber - CARBINE - Small Rifle - Brass Cases
or................buy commercial loaded ammo, blast away and police the brass for future use....
Lol, that may be what I have to do... the Armscor brass I have looks rather thin. Commercial loads from Remington, Hornady and maybe Winchester white box will yield decent brass.
I agree, that way the source is known and the brass will be good. Use one headstamp and you'll always be fine. If you can get a case for consumption and start shooting it, loading as well and you'll seem to have brass forever.Quote:
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A case... my wife may shoot me with it...
Best value for the dollar is PPU. Good ammo, priced reasonably, quality brass. My current lot is Aguila because I have a lot of it, not because it's great.
Hmm, I'm a bit familiar with those sorts of places. I worked site security on the Titan II sites up on the Lowery bombing range back in the early 60s during construction, up until the af accepted them and they went operational.Quote:
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Sarge
Armscor is offering a $2 rebate per 50 rd. box of the .30 Carbine
Ewall,
Sent you a PM.
I do like Mag tech, S&B and Remington for commercial ammo/brass.
Charlie-Painter777
As previously noted CMP is a fair source for used carbine brass. This item was posted yesterday and it appears to have Lake City brass... It's a bit more pricey than current commercial used brass - but might be of interest.... Hope this helps.
WTS .30 carbine brass - CMP Forums
This will work fine too. I have a bunch as I got a killer deal on close to a thousand rounds at something like .20CPR. Shoots fine, not loaded any of the brass. FWIW I use Armscor bullets to reload and they are great. Don't notice any real accuracy difference between it and the Speers I used before, and the price is fantastic.Quote:
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Wow. 300 rounds will fit in a small flat rate box...Quote:
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Ewall: PM me with your address and I'll send you some brass.Quote:
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Dave
I find most of my carbine brass from gun shows and if it's reasonable I buy it. If it's more than 20 bucks a hundred I pass. As it is I have about three grand loaded and a couple hundred on the bench waiting for the bullets to arrive. Extreme Bullets and they sell new brass. The bullets are 110 grain and are $50 for 500. Not sure on the price of the brass.
Seen mixed brass at a local show last weekend. $35 for a 100 count bag, it had been tumbled, deprimed, primer pockets cleaned/brushed, FLS'd, belled, trimmed and de-burred.
I thought a good deal with all the prep complete, but would strongly advise measuring and close inspection of any brass that someone else has prepped.
Charlie-Painter777
All fun to do except primer pocket cleaning! :bitch: - BobQuote:
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Checked on the Extreme Bullets price on brass. $32 per 100
USGI it's even tedious with a good prep center
Here's are a couple of sites that often have GI carbine ammunition or components from "pull downs" (ammunition which has been taken apart and components , brass & bullets for sale).
http://www.gibrass.com/brass.html (Bartlett Reloaders)
Widener's Reloading and Shooting Supply
Pat's Reloading - Prices
also, as mentioned, check CMP forum "for sale"
WOW! I didn't know it was going for that much. Maybe I'll empty a couple thousand and put them up for sale for less than half that much! I could make a killing! That's a lot better than the scrap dealer!
I know, old thread - but found a listing for "pull-down" LC .30 Carbine brass at $24/100. Not too bad when compared to prices we talked about a year ago. Price goes down a bit (a penny) if you buy larger quantities. I've bought ammo from this seller on Gun Broker and found him great to deal with. - Bob
http://www.polygunbag.com/brass.html