22 or Steel Case Ammo Disposal?

Recycle them. You'll make money that way, with which, you can buy more ammo.

What would be irresponsible about throwing them in the trash?

I toss the steel cases in the trash. Aluminum goes in the bag with cans for recycle. Rimfire and brass cases I can't use go in a milk jug. When it's about full I take the brass and aluminum to the recycler to trade for cash. A milk jug full of cartridge brass is worth a lot more than a trash bag full of crushed cans...

The unusable stuff i just toss in a 5 gallon bucket and when it fillls up i just send it to the scrap yard with the other recycled metals.

Wouldn't a bucket of spent .22 brass be fairly valuable?

Maybe a milk jug of spent 22 cases might buy a box of new ones.

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It'll buy more than that. I'm guessing a milk jug full will net at least $20. But it'll take a while fill with 22 cases...

I have never bothered picking up .22 cases but I guess I should start. If I can recycle them it would be good since we shoot about 5k per month. I will need to rig up some brass catchers for the .22s or it will take hours to get them picked up.
We do pick up the steel cases and I have always just put them in the garbage.

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Where can I cash in my .22 LR brass and collect my 20 bucks?

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Sounds good, . . . but unless you have a place to actually do that, . . . the information is of no value.

Where can I cash in my .22 LR brass and collect my 20 bucks?

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Google for local metal recyclers.

Brass and copper are quite valuable as compared to aluminum and steel. Clean brass is usually close to $2/pound; A 5 gallon bucket full could be $100 worth. If you have room to store the stuff, don't throw it away.

I always threw them away based on some one telling me that the priming reside (and in centerfires the primer itself) made them not eligible for recycling.

I always threw them away based on some one telling me that the priming reside (and in centerfires the primer itself) made them not eligible for recycling.

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Chemical residues usually do not make recyclable metals unclean; That stuff will burn off or rise to the top when it's melted down. "dirty" scrap is stuff like aluminum engine blocks with many steel parts threaded/pressed in.

Primers? They're also usually brass (both cup and anvil).

Every city and most larger towns will typically have a scrap metal dealer. Brass is big money and even the .22's are well worth raking up and scooping into buckets at any typical range.

Even steel casings are worth selling back to the scrap dealer if you have enough of them.

For those of us which shoot solo or move around bending over to gather our .22 brass is more about leaving the area clean than going for the cash. It would probably take five or six cases worth of .22 brass being collected up to have enough scrap money to pay for a new case of ammo.

Me and my dad save .22 cases to melt down and cast things out of.

MachIVshooter said:

Google for local metal recyclers.

Brass and copper are quite valuable as compared to aluminum and steel. Clean brass is usually close to $2/pound; A 5 gallon bucket full could be $100 worth. If you have room to store the stuff, don't throw it away.

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Close the last bucket I hauled in was $93.93 and that was about 4 months ago. Brass was $1.86 a pound that day. Do the math and you'll know that bucket was heavy, had to use hand trucks to move it. (psst the haul came in at an even 50lbs) I'd hate to know how much I spent filling it up.

IIRC The last trip I took to the recyclers in march was 6 five gal buckets full of .22 brass. At the metal recyclers cartridge brass was $1.94 a LB. The net was $319 and change. I think that metal scrap is well worth saving to sell back. BTW I have 4 options to sell to within reasonable driving distance and try to do so quarterly.

Me and my dad save .22 cases to melt down and cast things out of.

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What kinds of stuff do you guys make out of it, if you don't mind me asking.

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What do you guys do after shooting them? We've always thrown them in the trash, but if there is a more responsible thing to do I'm listening.

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Recycle, I recycle everything, just made 28 bucks on aluminum cans this morning. The only thing I don`t recycle is paper & I mulch or burn it............I think it should be a law that everything is recycled.

Also curious if the brass 22 hulls are recyclable.

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As scrap brass, sure. I've sold them, as well as used centerfire cases, to recycling yards. Because the spent primers were still in them, as well as some of the brass being nickel plated, I got the "contaminated" brass price, not as high as pure.

Steel and aluminum just go in the trash. This isn't World War II.

I always threw them away based on some one telling me that the priming reside (and in centerfires the primer itself) made them not eligible for recycling.
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Our club aaves the .22 brass and turns it into the scrap yard. We boosted our treasury by $1,000 bucks not long ago.