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I do the same. all the funky brass I find gets pinched with pliers and into a jar along with old primers and once that's full I'm going to start a bucket.
 
I already do. :)

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Just last week I took 298 pounds of brass and spent primers to the recycler's, and got $1.57 a pound. Prices are up a little bit from a year ago, when it was $1.25 a pound. Next week I'll be taking about 200 pounds of bullet jackets in from smelting recovered bullets from the berm on our range. For those, they pay me for #2 copper, which is a little more than cartridge brass. My partner and I also got 1,710 pounds of nice 7 pound ingots out of that smelting session.......

Hope this helps.

Fred
 
I also save the .22 brass as it will be cartridge brass as well. I usually fill an old gallon propellant container with spent primers and then turn that in. Usually takes about a year. Where I go does not want shotgun primers mixed in though as there is some steel in there.

I always take my booty in lead as well, funny how that seems to work with casters.:p
 
I have two 16fl oz bottles full of spent primers. Every primer I ever decapped.
 
And of course, we're recycling because it's good for nature and our natural resources. Right!
The fact that we get money for more components is the icing on the cake. SWEET icing on the cake!

I'm with Frogo207 (post #7) recycling 22 rimfire brass. Steel cases too. Keeps the range clean and makes money. Bravo, Frogo.
One day at the range we took some kids shooting. I told them if they picked up buckets of .22 rimfire brass
and steel cases I would buy them ice cream on the way home. We left the range spotless!!! Bellies full of ice cream!
 
I always pick up any brass I find. I never leave even a twenty two rimfire in the woods if I can help it. I hate litter. If I could only get the rest of the woods walkers to do so.

Any calibers I don't use, can't give to my shooting friends or are damaged, are placed in the scrap five gallon bucket. Along with every primer I ever decapped. Only been doing this for three years, so not that many, yet.

One thing that flummoxes me, many of my outdoors conservationist acquaintances pack out their garbage, avoid putting targets on live trees and wouldn't leave a scrap of bullet hole riddled beer can out in the woods or pit. But they have no qualms about leaving brass out to lay. Much to my aggravation. Even relatively uncommon three fifty one Winchester brass gets no passing glance, since it is one that is not reloaded for. The disparity between these actions is unsettling to me.

I had thoughts of trying to find an old rifle in three fifty one Win, so I smashed the cases I had. The temptation was very strong, and I saved myself space in the safe.( No doubt to be filled with another interesting and old caliber later on.:))

Waste not. Want not. Save the planet.
 
22 brass! How in the world do you collect it? The club I belong to is PAVED with it.
 
i shoot trap two times a week and i go early and check for left brass and some times i hit a nice load, last month i found several hundred .308 BMA match just laying on the ground like little gold nuggets waiting to be recycled in my m1a and rem 700 varmite. eastbank.
 

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Now I kinda expected you would have used a label maker:)
lol. I use stickies a lot. We do have a label maker at work, which I have used a couple of times before, but mostly I use sticky notes and Avery "removable" labels.
 
I just took a load in last week. The local scrapper grades anything with a primer as "dirty brass" and pays 1/2 price of "clean brass". So, I spend a little extra time and decap everything.
 
Different scrap dealers have different rules, and it seems there's no continuity between them. Some won't take cartridge brass at all, while others welcome it. Some grade it as "dirty" if it has an expended primer in it, while others don't care. Some won't allow lead on their property, while others welcome the trade in it. If you have several options in your area, you might shop around and see who is the most "user friendly".

The person who runs the Non-ferrous scales at my scrap dealer is a shooter, so he gets some bullets I've cast every time I take my brass in. He saves out solder and some lead in exchange, and this last time he had two bars of 95% tin and 5 pounds of pure lead for me, and he got 500 9mm bullets. Over the years we've come to know each other and are on a first name basis. He takes everything I bring him, but I make sure I've sorted it properly. I treat him fairly and he treats me fairly.

I sort out the steel and aluminum cases and keep them separate, along with the spent primers. He has me pour the primers in with the brass cases, but thanks me for separating them so he can see what they are before weighing. He pays me #2 copper price for all recovered bullet jackets from my smelting into ingots. I'll also have a bucket of the steel jackets, so he doesn't even bother to run a magnet over my buckets anymore. Like I said, we've built trust, and that goes a long way...

Hope this helps.

Fred
 
And of course, we're recycling because it's good for nature and our natural resources. Right!
The fact that we get money for more components is the icing on the cake. SWEET icing on the cake!

I've spent far more buying scrap lead than I've gotten for brass, bottles & cans! :D
 
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