I don't know what to do with it............
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Virgil Co.C
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- Aug 10, 2018
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If it’s all brass take to scrap yard , get something for it . Probably call ask how much brass is a pound.
guzma393
Active Member
If there's any other brass than your typical 9mm/223/40SW, i.e. 308, 357 magnum, 30-06, etc. then those are worth sorting and bartering/selling off.
If it is the latter, I'd sort out all the steel cases (easily done with a large magnet) and put it in the classifieds for sale/barter as a reloader may still want it. Otherwise, I'd just sell the brass as scrap.
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If it is the latter, I'd sort out all the steel cases (easily done with a large magnet) and put it in the classifieds for sale/barter as a reloader may still want it. Otherwise, I'd just sell the brass as scrap.
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engineerbrian
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Scrap yard, then use the money they give you to buy more ammo
- Feb 4, 2013
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WOW. In the RELOADING section, people telling someone to sell brass to a scrap yard?????? Come on MAN.
Offer it for sale here. And number of people would be interested. Especially if you are selling it at scrap prices.
Offer it for sale here. And number of people would be interested. Especially if you are selling it at scrap prices.
GuitarmanNick
Ultimate Member
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GunBum
Active Member
About $2 a pound is brass scrap price. In case someone is wondering…
- Feb 4, 2013
- 28,175
Heck, I will start off offering $20 for it based on just seeing the pictures. More if it is separated by caliber and is calibers I shoot.
GunBum
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SavageShooter
Active Member
If it is dirty uncleaned brass you'll get the lowest price for it from a hand loader. The once fired brass I buy is always cleaned in a tumbler with stainless steel pins and solution it comes out so clean it looks better than new.
I never thought I would be picking up brass but a friend who shoots with me basically said I have too much brass laying around and at least try to get something for it. So I started picking it up and did not realize it was that much. Sad thing is there's far more brass still on the ground than in the buckets. I did separate it by .223/556 and 9mm. The other calipers I just put them in one container. The aluminum casings were destined for the scrap yard. Thanks for all the replies I guess scrap yard it is.
Or at least not filthy, which that kind of looks like.
But it’s worth more than $20 in scrap value.
If it isn’t totally filthy it might be worth the time to sort it and offer it up on the classified section. But figure you’d be getting maybe 2-3 cents a case for basic handgun cases, maybe 4-6 cents per case for .223/5.56. Of course more expensive handguns and rifle cases would be worth a bit more. Cleaned it would be worth more for sure. Maybe double that. Somewhat less if it is muddy, leaf filled dreck.
But you’ve gotta add in your time. Both to sort it and your time to post it on the classifieds and meeting up with someone. And unless they are taking it all, meeting up with multiple people.
Dunno, I sort of enjoy stuff like that. But at the same time unless it is something I know is going to help someone (who hopefully deserves it), my time is worth something. If I am bothering to post it in the classifieds, it had better be worth at least $20. The extra work to sort all that?
Dirty sorted brass that is maybe $100-150 worth at a guess. But unless someone is going to buy ALL of it in one go. That’s multiple sales. Which is more of your time. Plus the sorting time (an hour or two). Might be $50-70 of scrap value. Or if you’ve got a decent idea of what was in there, you can weigh it out and offer it up on the classifieds at something a bit over scrap value.
Example, “25lbs of range brass. Dirty. Mix of mostly .223/5.56, 9mm and 40 with a few other calibers mixed in. Scrap value is $50, looking for $80” and post a picture or two and call it a day. You’d get less than sorting it, but you’d save a ton of your time and could likely get more than scrap value.
Unless pretty desperate for the cash or you do have a tumbler to clean it up and make it worth more, I’d just take it to the scrap yard or take the path of weighing it and posting it just above scrap value in the classifieds.
- Feb 4, 2013
- 28,175
I said it was a starting offer. 
OK, $50 for it.
OK, $50 for it.
Okay, you asked so, honestly?
PUT IT IN CLEANER RECEPTACLES before posting photos of it!
Seriously? Best of success. I’ve been in the same position before (I always wind up donating it to a reloader. Or, someone pushing a grocery cart, whomever I encounter, first.)
I'd have no problem buying unsorted dirty brass in bulk buckets, provided I knew roughly what the mix was and it interested me. ie, is it 223 and 9mm, or is all 40, etc.? Brass shell spot price is ~$1.70 a lb on average, if that gives you an idea of pricing. Or just donate it for karma.
99 percent of it is 223/9mm brass. I don't shoot steel and I only have one 45 caliper pistol that I rarely shoot. If it was up to me with the amount of brass lying on the ground I would just allow someone who wanted it to come and get it so I would not have to pick it up but there is no way in hell my significant other would allow that.
Rockzilla
Ultimate Member
scrap it or sell it as-is.
all the brass I've purchased has been be the pound..most
has been in decent condition, always interested in brass mainly
now 45acp LP...but don't turn down a decent price...
sort it clean it up a little sell it...
-Rock
all the brass I've purchased has been be the pound..most
has been in decent condition, always interested in brass mainly
now 45acp LP...but don't turn down a decent price...
sort it clean it up a little sell it...
-Rock
Where are you located?
Variably1913
Member
So is it worth picking up and sorting all the brass left on the ground at my local range?
85MikeTPI
Ultimate Member
Welcome, might want to go to the Introduction thread and introduce yourself, your interests, and other information. Keeps from getting a bad reputation by reopening old threads with single sentences or obtuse questions, making you look like a post whore trying to get to 50.
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