I.D. Brass - help

[gunslinger598]

Thursday my good friend brought me a bag of mixed brass that must have weight 25 lbs or more.

In it are about 150 to 200 rds. head stamped FNM 76-27. They look just like .308 rounds.

He didn't know what they were, & can't even remember where he go them.

I'm thinking Mil. Sur. .308.

I hate to just toss em in the scrap bucket.

Any help would be appreciated.

[arjunky]

Thursday my good friend brought me a bag of mixed brass that must have weight 25 lbs or more.

In it are about 150 to 200 rds. head stamped FNM 76-27. They look just like .308 rounds.

He didn't know what they were, & can't even remember where he go them.

I'm thinking Mil. Sur. .308.

I hate to just toss em in the scrap bucket.

Any help would be appreciated.

Have you looked inside the case are they boxer primed or berdan?
Sounds like the Mil-surp I had a few years ago, they were berdan primed.

Byron

[gunslinger598]

Forgive my lack of knowledge on the primer

I see 2 small offset holes instead of the 1, I am accustomed to.

next question can these be reloaded with standard primers or should they go in the scrap bucket?

[iceman]

Those are Berdan primers. Check out the going price of scrap brass because that is what they are in my opinion. Just my .02.

[arjunky]

Those are Berdan primers. Check out the going price of scrap brass because that is what they are in my opinion. Just my .02.

Yep, not worth the effort to buy special primers, tools and reload.
Scrap.

Byron

[Hobie]

I have scrapped a bunch of those myself. At least I'll get the scrap price instead of somebody else!

[gunslinger598]

Thanks y'all....

I don't have anything that shoots them at this time so in the scrap bucket they go. When it's full I'll cash them in for something I can use.

[JustaJeepGuy]

Before you scrap those cases, think about converting them to Boxer primers and read this:

http://parallaxscurioandrelicfirearmsfo ... -Conversio

Sure they're worth money as scrap, but if you can convert and use them as Boxer primed cases, then scrap them after they're really used up.

[2571]

Sounds like it could be fun playing with berdan/boxer change.

Personally, I scrap all military brass if I think it possibly was used in a machine gun. Darn near gave up all reloading with some cheap 9mm I bought until it dawned me it was mg stuff and not worth the time and effort to rehabilitate/resize it.