We own the furnace • Buy outright or toll • Certified scale tickets
346.680.0202
G.A. Rittenhouse An operation ofG.A. Rittenhouse
Cartridge & Range Brass Recyclers

Your spent brass, paid as brass.

We pick it up, sort the steel and aluminum out, deal with any live rounds mixed in, and melt it in our own Houston furnace — no broker between your range and the smelter. Buy outright or toll. Your call.

No broker in the middle Sorted & paid separately Certified scale tickets
Spent cartridge brass recovered from a range
Weighed on certified scales — you get the tickets
Molten metal in the G.A. Rittenhouse smelter
The Difference

Most buyers are a stop on the way to someone else’s smelter.

We are the smelter. Your brass doesn’t pass through a broker on its way to a furnace — it comes to ours, in Houston. Fewer hands in the middle is exactly why we can pay more, or charge less.

We own the furnaceRange to melt, one company
No broker marginNobody skimming in between
Certified scalesYou keep every weight ticket
Gulf Coast + nationalNext-day trucks, bigger loads anywhere
Sorted, Not Lumped

Every case paid as what it is

Range brass is never just brass. Steel and aluminum cases, stray projectiles and the occasional live round all land in the same bucket. We sort it before we price it — so your brass is paid as brass, not marked down to whatever’s mixed in.

Brass

Paid as brass

Rifle and pistol cases priced on their own, at brass value — not blended down.

Steel & Aluminum

Bought separately

Steel and aluminum cases are pulled out and bought on their own line.

Live Rounds

Demilled, documented

Loaded rounds are separated and run through our popping furnace — certificate of destruction issued.

Two Ways To Get Paid

Buy outright, or toll

Option A

We buy it

One price, paid on our certified scale tickets. The brass is gone and the money’s in hand — the simplest way to clear a pile.

Best when you want the brass gone and the money now.
Option B

We toll it

You keep ownership. We sort, demil and process it for a fee, and you get the recovered metal or its value back.

Best on large, steady volumes where you’d rather hold the metal.
Not sure? Tell us roughly how much you have — we’ll price both and tell you which pays you more.
Who We Work With

If it gets shot, we’ll take the brass

01

Indoor & outdoor ranges

Buckets, drums or gaylords of floor sweepings — mixed calibers, mixed metals, dirt and all.

02

Ammunition manufacturers

Rejected cases, off-spec loaded rounds, process scrap and line clean-outs.

03

Law enforcement & training

Qualification and training-range brass, with documented handling from pickup to melt.

04

Scrap recyclers

Range brass you bought but don’t want to sort or can’t melt — we’ll take it off your yard.

How It Works

Pickup to ingot

Four steps, one company, start to finish out of Houston.

01

Pickup

We collect from your site — usually within a day on the Gulf Coast, nationwide by arrangement.

02

Sort

Brass, steel and aluminum are separated, because each is worth something different.

03

Demil

Loose live rounds go through our popping furnace. Nothing live reaches the melt; you get a certificate of destruction.

04

Melt

Clean, sorted brass becomes feedstock — in our furnace, or shipped to yours if you toll.

Live rounds in the bucket? Normal.

It happens on every range. Tell us on the form — loaded and defective rounds are separated and run through our proprietary popping furnace before anything is melted, and you receive a certificate of destruction for them.

Two Business Days To A Number

Tell us what you’ve got.

Only your name and email are required. A photo of the pile or the buckets is the fastest way to a price — and we’ll price both buy and toll.

Call 346-680-0202 · quotes@gar-usa.com · Gulf Coast & nationwide