Pricing on brass-bought house with many ammo boxes full

Get some smaller container - like a coffee can. fill it up. Count how many are in the coffee can. Keep filling the can up over and over and count the number of cans. Algebra. SHould be easy and quick.

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If you're wanting to sell quick, in one lot, and not bother with too much sorting or counting; do a rough estimate of quantity for a fair market price estimate. Cut that price in half and it might sell.

I would keep it and part it out slowly or trade it for something I really want, like .22lr ammo!

The primed brass cannot be mailed, and will give you a headache to ship due to restrictions and prices for shipping. I'd try to sell that locally. The rest can be shipped to buyers in flat rate postal boxes.

If you really took the time to count and identify and separate them all, knowing 100% what you have, you could probably get more. But just based on weight, I'm going to say $250 is a pretty fair shake. You could sell it for $1 and be ahead, since you didn't invest anything into it.

Call a local scrap yard and ask what they would give you for the total weight in scrap. Obviously it'll be worth more than scrap weight to reloaders.

Doesn't primed brass just ship ORM-D ground? I didn't think you had to get hazmat to ship primed brass. (No different than loaded ammo, is it?)

My friend, your biggest issue is you don't really know what you have. How can anyone here tell you how to price it when you don't know quantities.

Were it me, I'd go buy a few boxes of quart and gallon zip lock bags, some disposable latex or rubber gloves, and sort it all out into bags of 100-250 pieces.

Tally it all up in a single inventory sheet, take some pics, and then come back.

You will get much better answers.

Plus, you can then probably sell it all right here for a decent price plus shipping costs.

USAF_Vet said:

If you really took the time to count and identify and separate them all, knowing 100% what you have, you could probably get more. But just based on weight, I'm going to say $250 is a pretty fair shake. You could sell it for $1 and be ahead, since you didn't invest anything into it.

Call a local scrap yard and ask what they would give you for the total weight in scrap. Obviously it'll be worth more than scrap weight to reloaders.

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Sorry, didn't see your post. My thoughts exactly

Trent said:

Doesn't primed brass just ship ORM-D ground? I didn't think you had to get hazmat to ship primed brass. (No different than loaded ammo, is it?)

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Thats what I thought.

which brass is primed?

and Ill take the 44 mag

I'm know that primers by themselves are hazmat. Pretty sure that loaded ammo or primed cases are ORM-D ground, but only via UPS or FEDEX, no USPS. It might be cheaper to deprime (use some oil to kill the primers first!) and then ship USPS flat rate priority.

That being said, I'd love to get some .357 and .44 magnum. I bought a new gun and have everything but the cases to load for it.

If you decide to sell it, why don't you split it up in say 250-500 case batches and sell it here. I'd buy all you would offer, sharing with others who also want of course.

Steve

Found this on the web (amazing what's out there):

380 150 cases/lb
9mm 118/ib
38spl 103/lb
.357 Mag 90/lb
.40s&w 100/lb
.45 acp 79/lb
.44 sp 83/lb
.44 mag 61/lb
.223 75/lb
30 Carbine 110/lb
30-30 54/lb
.308 42/lb
30.06 38/lb
50 bmg 8/lb

So it looks like approx. 1000 .44 mags and 700 .357's. I'd love to have em.....