My scrap man docks the price for cartridge brass 50%, says they have to sort it for primed cases and live rounds. Hardly pays the gas to haul it in and it’s only 5 miles!
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That’s what mine says, to dead beats he’s trying to lose, because of all the dirt and shenanigans.
He gives me clean brass price because mine are, clean.
(Oops, not implying anything, Pivot!
)When the induction furnace is running at the forge and all the equipment is on, one would be hard pressed to hear a rifle shot, let alone a few primers or live rounds.
But paying for gravel and sand probably gets old fast.(Some of the conversions I’m privy to standing in line, holy cow...
When I go in with a dump truck, I don’t have to get out, I prefer that.)
He does lament that my brass, while clean, is actually useless. When I find a bad case, I squish it. I can get more brass in the scrap bucket that way.
I just gave him a bunch of 30-06 the next time I went.
I wonder if that’s why he takes my brass at full price?
Been there done both. Still have the brass. Plus, Armslist is no longer free.
Brass is readily available right now for those who need it and are willing to pay the somewhat elevated prices. The market volume for the common cases seems fairly low now due to the primer shortage. I suspect brass prices to drop until primers become more available.
Brass is readily available right now for those who need it and are willing to pay the somewhat elevated prices. The market volume for the common cases seems fairly low now due to the primer shortage. I suspect brass prices to drop until primers become more available.
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I have sold tens of thousands of wet tumbled 9mm and 223/5.56 cases for $40 a thousand plus shipping.
Went I get back home from deer hunting I have bunch of order to fill. There are still buyers out there.
Some areas of the country do not have that many used brass sellers.
Went I get back home from deer hunting I have bunch of order to fill. There are still buyers out there.
Some areas of the country do not have that many used brass sellers.
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Looks just like the BPS in Savannah. I thought it was just here. With the buying power they have seems like they might need a new buyer ?
That’s what mine says, to dead beats he’s trying to lose, because of all the dirt and shenanigans.
He gives me clean brass price because mine are, clean.
(Oops, not implying anything, Pivot!
When the induction furnace is running at the forge and all the equipment is on, one would be hard pressed to hear a rifle shot, let alone a few primers or live rounds.
But paying for gravel and sand probably gets old fast.(Some of the conversions I’m privy to standing in line, holy cow...
When I go in with a dump truck, I don’t have to get out, I prefer that.)
He does lament that my brass, while clean, is actually useless. When I find a bad case, I squish it. I can get more brass in the scrap bucket that way.
I just gave him a bunch of 30-06 the next time I went.
I wonder if that’s why he takes my brass at full price?
Yup, I understand all that. The folks who own and run the salvage yard have been friends for going on 40 years, I’ve sold them literally tons and tons of scrap iron, brass, copper, and aluminum during that timeframe. It’s just their policy supposedly downhill from where he sells it. They keep it segregated and somehow sort it attempting to cull live rounds and primed cases. I’ve explained this all to them and the answer is “we don’t get enough rifle and pistol brass coming in here to worry about, half price, take it or leave it.” They have done me lots of favors over the years and I them. My guys once took in about 6,000# of scrap galvanized pipe and they brought back a check for 6,000# of scrap aluminum. Boy were they happy to see that scale ticket and check on their desk. They wouldn’t hear of me not taking a $50 bill to take my wife out to dinner. Someday my kids can take my scrap brass down to their kids and see what they can get for it. Until then, I just toss it in a bucket. Not enough to worry about.
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The recyler I take my stuff to has different prices for different people by how they seperate the scrap and how dirty it is when they bring it in.
Some scrapers mix the red brass ( facets & brass pipe joints) in with yellow brass (rifle & pistol brass) and copper wireing and copper pipes.
Every type of ferris metals needs to be seperated before the recycler sents it off to thier buyer. It take labor and labor cost money.
Some scrapers mix the red brass ( facets & brass pipe joints) in with yellow brass (rifle & pistol brass) and copper wireing and copper pipes.
Every type of ferris metals needs to be seperated before the recycler sents it off to thier buyer. It take labor and labor cost money.
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A. What are you going to get for it scrapped?
B. How many Large flat rate boxes does it take to put it in?
C. What’s your time worth to dump it from buckets, into boxes and ship it?
If the cost of B + C = A, you’d be doing the shooting community a favor keeping the brass going. There might even be a post office closer than a metal recycler.
There are a number of us around that have machines that remove the manual labor from sorting brass. My brass sorter, sorts a 5 gallon bucket in 15 min.
The question as a potential buyer, would be, what are the contents/where did it come from?
Cigarette butts and .22 cases are not worth a lot. If you have buckets of “boutique round” brass, it could be quite valuable. 8 buckets of police range .40 and one of mixed 380, .223, 9mm and 45, is still better than scrap prices to resell, even if not as valuable as buckets of 500 S&W, 458 socom and 300 Weatherby.
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I bought a small ten pound scale from a Goodwill Store for weighing brass instead of counting it out.
Here is a small chart if it helps.
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^ that’s funny. part of a list I made years ago.
I think I first posted it here in this thread. That has others too,
https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/brass-per-pound.324927/
And people told me I had too much time on my hands when I made that list. All these years later and people are still using it.
I think I first posted it here in this thread. That has others too,
https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/brass-per-pound.324927/
And people told me I had too much time on my hands when I made that list. All these years later and people are still using it.
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