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Adamantium · December 29, 2010, 02:14 PM

When buying brass for 7.62x39mm there is one important thing to remember. Remington brass uses a small rifle primer, everyone else uses a large rifle primer.

Just randomly pulling up a website that sells once fired brass, and lets you pick a manufacturer, it is $40 for 100, $122.50 for 500 and $220 for 1000. That is 40 cents, 24.5 cents and 22 cents. So really you get killed on buying 100, but the difference between 500 and 1000 is small.

So comparing it to buying a box of ammo for it at $11 for 20, that is 55 cents a pop.

So the question is, if you only want a small amount of brass, is it worth 15 cents a round more to get to fire it once and then have the brass left over? Or if you are willing to make a bulk purchase is it work the extra 30.5 or 33 cents to get to shoot a round?

The brass out of my SKS gets dinged pretty bad at the mouth, but up until now has always popped out just fine.

December 29, 2010, 02:14 PM	#3
Adamantium Senior Member Join Date: June 6, 1999 Location: El Paso, TX Posts: 1,021	When buying brass for 7.62x39mm there is one important thing to remember. Remington brass uses a small rifle primer, everyone else uses a large rifle primer. Just randomly pulling up a website that sells once fired brass, and lets you pick a manufacturer, it is $40 for 100, $122.50 for 500 and $220 for 1000. That is 40 cents, 24.5 cents and 22 cents. So really you get killed on buying 100, but the difference between 500 and 1000 is small. So comparing it to buying a box of ammo for it at $11 for 20, that is 55 cents a pop. So the question is, if you only want a small amount of brass, is it worth 15 cents a round more to get to fire it once and then have the brass left over? Or if you are willing to make a bulk purchase is it work the extra 30.5 or 33 cents to get to shoot a round? The brass out of my SKS gets dinged pretty bad at the mouth, but up until now has always popped out just fine.