Our goal is to provide quality products at the best cost for our customers. As we grow exploring new products and gaining new resources our customers reap the benefit. The humble beginnings of BOAZ produced products using remanufactured brass. There was a market for new brass it was decided to accommodate the request. At the time of writing this blog post, we do offer a selection of both new and remanufactured ammunition. But as time goes and we grow, we are forming an our opinion on quality vs cost.
We want to share with you what we are learning. There are lots of pros and cons to using either remanufactured vs new brass. The ultimate decision is yours based on price point as a consumer. Shall we look at some pros and cons?
Remanufactured Brass
Pros:
- Affordability. You can often glean it from a local range for free or buy it much cheaper than new brass.
Cons:
- Smaller or limited availability is a factor
- Different headstamps create loading inconsistencies
- You can encounter cracked brass, damaged increasing the loss of product
- Sometimes primer pockets issues show up
- Time to clean and process the brass
- Less forgiving with coated bullets
- The shipping weight is the same, new or used.
New Brass
Pros:
- Consist loading multiple types of projectiles
- Clean bright brass
- Can buy in larger quantities
- Personalization of the headstamp
- Works great with jacketed or coated bullets
- The shipping weight is the same, new or used.
Cons:
- Most expensive to buy
- Must buy in larger bulk for best pricing
- May have to slightly resize the bell
As a manufacturer, it's clear that new brass is the most pro - less con for manufacturing. But does it justify the cost difference? In our opinion, it does. So let's look at a comparison based on our current website prices* for the same 200 round bags of 147gr TPJ:
Reman $62.20* ($0.31/round)
New $65.00* ($0.33/round)
That's $2.80 per bag of 200.
Loading consistency keeps losses minimal and speeds up the automated process. In manufacturing time starts becoming a major player in the factors of cost. The price difference is reasonable enough from a manufacturing perspective to drop reman brass. This minimizes issues that have to be worked out during the process to accommodate different brass attributes. So in the automated process if the reman brass is pausing the system with frequent inconsistencies, the time it takes to figure out issues, make changes, tweak adjustments and document losses just doesn't seem worth the trouble. This is why BOAZ is leaning toward manufacturing products with new brass. At this point, we are still doing some refurbished brass products but priority will lean toward new brass products. You will find this in our samples and in the 147gr TPJ product.
* Website prices as of NOV 2024 subject to change at any time. Prices change according to the market fluctuation in availability and prices and components.