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Having a home range and multiple family and friends shooting at said range I'm really wanting to do something other than throwing the brass in a trash can.

I dont know anyone who reloads, so I'm looking for some suggestions.

Each month I collect a sizable amount of 9, 45, 223 and 556, some 38, 357, 10, an occasional 380, 7.62x39 is regular, you get the picture.

I'm not interested in reloading so what should I do with all this brass?
 
Kinda a cool idea, but I would think you would get more from just selling the brass. Think there's about 110-115 9mm in a pound, they offer $1.25 and looks like it has to be cleaned.
 
Recycle for sure!!!!
Depends on how much time you have to dedicate to the brass.

While I have not researched all the brass-credit programs, the one I have would only pay the going rate for scrap brass, which was the same rate I could get from a local recycler.

A. Take it all to the recycler
B. Sort and sell. Dedicate a 2 or 5 gallon bucket for each caliber. Do a range clean up and then throw into the appropriate bucket.
Obtain some flat rate boxes. Use a metal scoop of some kind (dog food?) to transfer from bucket to box.

If sorting and selling you'll want to do your homework to determine what others are selling it for. If you can match (or perhaps undercut by a tiny amount) AND let folks know it's all from factory new ammo collected from your personal range, I can't see why it wouldn't sell in short order.
 
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FROGO207 said:
Agree that you could probably sell it all on this site in the reloading for sale area.
Just keep prices reasonable. USPS flat rate boxes are your friend. Just remember to tape the heavy ones well and use bags inside to keep from having spills.
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I like this suggestion. Browse through the older adds to see what its priced at and what sells.
 
Where do you buy your ammo? Besides the ones mentioned above, Freedom Munitions (Xtreme Bullets) used to take brass in exchange for credit where you can buy more ammo. There are actually a few that will take it for credit.
Options:
1.Send in for credit on Ammo (brass gets cleaned and reused)
2. Sell on line (brass gets cleaned and reused)
3.. Take to a recycler (brass gets melted into something other than bullet brass)

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Every forum I belong to has a Swap & Sell sub-forum. Can go as far or as little as you want. Sell, trade or pay-it-forward just as it is or take the time to sort it out. Every forum has reloaders that would be happy to have it.
 
Again, great input.

The next month I'll collect and sort, probably not clean, see what volumes we have of what size.

Then I'll try to send some out to you guys. I'm not looking for money, just hate seeing it not used.
 
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