How Bullet Casings Are Recycled

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Music:
Street Dogs - Farrell Wooten

Footage:
US Department of Defense

Note: "The appearance of U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) visual information does not imply or constitute DoD endorsement."

[Naturexyz-owri]

And in movies:
60% more bullet with each bullet fire

[atleastminutes]

Thanks for sharing! I thought theyd reuse the shell to cut cost

[ryaldeveau]

Live rounds are NOT put aside to be reused.

[whopper]

I must’ve went through the deformer myself when I was kid.

[scoutwilliams]

DO NOT reuse live ammo found in firing ranges. It’s a misfire and they can be volatile..

[machinistmikethetinkerer]

Yeah um no you don't re-use live discarded rounds. Ever.

[Doc_]

"Any live rounds are put aside, to be reused" - Are you fucking kidding me??

[kingcelaya]

If they deprimed and polished that stuff, they could make waaaay more money. The civilian reloading market is huge.

[zero]

And …. Lots of casings are recycled by reloading them.

Obviously not by the military.

Mass produced reloaded rounds are a great practice option. It’s way cheaper than fresh rounds. When you’re just putting holes in paper at short range they’re fine.

[robsjdmaccord]

Instead of melting or reloading it themselves right that totally makes financial sense

[IberianCraftsman]

why not just wash and refill instead of crushing?

[mikeyearwood]

I can recycle the casings into new casings very quickly.

[derniko]

just watched the video twice and didn't notice until the end😂

[myrandomlife]

Anywahs, we can deuse those casing tho. Just replace new primer etc, but we can only do it few cycles

[leme_]

Don't they just melt the brass and then turn it into casings and repeat the cycle?

[nickflana]

I know a company LAX Ammo that will buy your spent brass casings and i think you just gotta ship them back, no processing needed but i think they give tou store credit. Pretty cool deal though.

[smitty]

I’m surprised they don’t just sell all of them to reloading companies (my only guess why maybe that they do in some cases or maybe this is a NATO military that isn’t the USA).

[werwerwerwer-vdcg]

Wo do you need to prevent them from reuse?

[sean.steele]

I remember when you could buy the reloadable brass

[dangerousthoughts.]

Think about this. In order for us to recycle that brass we’re paying for:

-soldiers to go through BCT/OCS/BOLC/AIT
-soldiers to PCS to an actual unit
-civilians to teach an ammo handler class and the cost of the building/training material
-the development and maintenance of the prerequisite online ammo handler training
-the soldiers wages for the day of ammo class
-the daily wages of everyone involved in ordering the ammo
-shipping the ammo
-storing the ammo
-the ammo reservation website
-processing the request
-dispatching the vehicles to pick it up
-the safety equipment needed to transport the ammo
-the military drivers training
-the vehicles
-the wages for someone to PMCS the vehicle
-the fuel to drive to the AHA
-the CIV workers to facilitate paperwork
-the CIVs to issue the ammo and inspect the vehicles
-the fuel to drive the ammo to the range
-the armorers wages to hand out the weapons
-the fuel to transport all the firers to the range by GOV
-the wages of everyone at the range to fire the ammo
-the wages of the ammo detail
-the wages of everyone to pick up the brass
-the wages of the range operation civilians to inspect the range
-the running costs to maintain the range
-the fuel to transport everyone back from the range and the wages of the armorer to store the weapons again
-the fuel to transport the brass and dunnage to the arms to the arms room for temporary storage
-the wages of the arms room alarm system monitors
-the fuel to drive the vehicle back to the motor pool
-fuel to drive the vehicle back to the arms room the next day/week to pick up the live ammo
-wages of the Soldiers sifting through the brass ensuring there’s no live rounds
-fuel to drive back to the AHA to turn in live ammo
-wages of the CIV paper pushers
-wages of the CIVs in charge of accepting live ammo turn in
-fuel to drive back to the motor pool
-fuel to drive back to the arms room the next day to pick up the dunnage since you can’t turn in live and spent on the same day
-Fuel to drive back to the AHA
-wages of CIV paper pushers
-wages of the people in charge of accepting brass and dunnage
-temporary storage of the dunnage
-transport of the dunnage from the AHA to the recycling plant
-recycling fee

And I’m sure I missed quite a few things you could hypothetically consider.

Ranges may seem simple on the surface. But I’d wager that if you were to consider all this to include man hours and training/facilities it could easily cost the military over half a mil to run a company sized range that consists of ~10/15, 000 rounds of 5.56. Even if the costs aren’t directly seen the manpower required for a range to even happen in order to end up with razz to recycle is insane. Sure we get training but this is all to say in sure we aren’t breaking even by selling the brass, but instead losing billions each year. The amount of money made back to the government by recycling brass is negligible but better than nothing.

Anyone who hasn’t been in the military couldn’t fathom why we have to show up at 0400 for a range that begins at 0900, and would be even more dumbstruck when it doesn’t actually start until 1100😂

Things in the military typically take at least 10x longer than they should due to all the red tape that supposed to prevent accidents.