Just sold some scrap Brass for $1.80 a pound!

[little willie]

Wow, I hadn't checked the scrap price of fired cartridge brass, when I did I was surprised, $1.80 a pound locally.

I took in 250 pounds of .22s and berdan brass, $450.00!

If the weather and the price holds through this next week, I taking about 1500 pounds of 9MM and 40 in.

I'm running out of space.

little willie

[richhodg66]

We have a scrap dealer here in town I want to take mine and see what kind of deal he'll give me trading for lead. I don't have 250 lbs, but I could scrape together that it would be worth it at that price.

[btroj]

Scrap is why I pick up all cases except 22 ri fire off the ground at the range. I don't see them as a cartridge case but rather as a piece of money.
I really do prefer large rifle cases, fewer to the pound!

[akajun]

I only got $1.00 a pound for "brass shells". However I got the #2 copper price for bullet jackets melted out of range scrap and some burnt up wiring. BTW, I dump all my spent primers in my brass bucket.

[Jim]

Best I've gotten so far is a buck, .30. Friday, all I got was a buck, .10.

[geargnasher]

I'll bet some of our boolit swagers are crying in their breakfast this morning over all that .22 brass going to the recycler!

Gear

[runfiverun]

and the 9 and 40 brass as well
the 9mm brass is used to make 40 bullets and the 40's are used to make 44 bullets.

[-06]

Would you not get more selling the brass to reloaders than for scrap? I have plenty but surely there are some in need of casings somewhere.

[btroj]

A bucket in the corner collects picked up brass and my throw aways. Sorting and selling would be much more time consuming.
The money from the scrap yard is pretty much always rolled into a lead purchase anyway.

[little willie]

Well folks,

I too would have thought there would have been more value to shooters than scrap, but evidently we are the only four or so here that think so.

See link http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=155991

100 views, no responses. $110.00/3500= 3.14 cents ea.

$1.80/115 (9MM per pound)= 1.56 cents ea.

$15.00/3500= .429 cents ea. for postage, insurance labels, tape and a trip to the post office.

That leaves 1.15 cents ea. for sorting & culling, electricity & media for the tumbler and packing.

While I'm not trying to get rich. It may be fun, but it's NOT THAT MUCH FUN!

I know that I haven't yet advertised the .40 S&W or the .45 ACP, I started with the 9 to free up some buckets. Based on the "overwhelming" response, once my coffers are very well filled (I can pay more attention to where my bullets go, when I don't have to worry about where my brass goes) I doubt that it's worth it.

little willie

QUOTES:
I'll bet some of our boolit swagers are crying in their breakfast this morning over all that .22 brass going to the recycler!

Gear

and the 9 and 40 brass as well
the 9mm brass is used to make 40 bullets and the 40's are used to make 44 bullets.

runfiverun

Would you not get more selling the brass to reloaders than for scrap? I have plenty but surely there are some in need of casings somewhere.

-06

[fatelk]

Wow, I hadn't checked the scrap price of fired cartridge brass, when I did I was surprised, $1.80 a pound locally.
Must have gone down a little, or they just pay less there. I got $2.20/lb for scrap brass here just a few weeks ago, and $3/lb for bullet jackets (about a 3 year accumulation- I don't accumulate much, but still a couple hundred bucks).

I also have a bunch of 9mm, .40, and .223 that I've given thought to scrapping, but since I already have it clean and sorted I guess I'll hang on to it or sell it for reloading.

[little willie]

The reason I checked was a friend of mine said he had gotten almost $2.50 a pound for some other berdan brass. I knew it had gone down some (that's why I mentioned "if the price holds").

The last time I sold casings as scrap was many years ago. I had so much .38 special, 9MM, .223 and military .308 that I was out of storage room and nobody wanted to buy it.

I realize that someday I (or somebody else) will probably regret it (like the .223 and .308 now) but that will be then and this is now.

So far as the .22 brass, I still have a 5 gallon bucket full that I haven't sorted for .25ACP yet.

BTW, I would do some trading for commercial rifle calibers or tin, wheel-weights or lead.

little willie

[Superfly]

what ya want on trade for the 22 lr brass

[leadman]

In 2007 I got about $4.25 a pound for yellow brass and copper. That is when the theives started big time here.

[little willie]

Superfly,

PM sent.

little willie

[little willie]

leadman,

I had dumped my brass a long time before that. I was pretty much out of shooting and trying to clean thing up and make space.

I sold about two tons of wheel-weight/2% tin alloy to local casters for an average of $0.25 a pound.

I missed the big wave (of scrap prices) with our other stuff too.

We have a ton (figuratively) of aluminum, cast iron and steel from our "real" business (antique auto parts) that needs to be sorted and cleaned to salvage what's good and get the leftovers ready for the next swell in scrap pricing. As long as China and other countries are on the boom, the prices will keep fluctuating but stay up overall.

little willie

[dale2242]

I was quoted $1.32 being paid for scrap brass locally last week.....dale

[little willie]

Superfly,

I thought that I'd post again to you here in case you didn't get my last PM.

I'm getting ready for another scrap run.

little willie

[FLINTNFIRE]

Are you going to advertise the 45 , and if its rough sorted and not tumbled is for me no big deal , always resort and tumble anyway . Just checking

[little willie]

FLINTNFIRE,

When I get my stash filled and my 9 and 40 customers satisfied, I will open sales to everyone else.

little willie

[L Ross]

I called my local scrap yard after my Dad sent about 500 lb of range pickup brass home with me last trip. He deprimed all of the centerfire and has 4 five gallon buckets of 22 brass. I wonder how an 85 year old man can bend over that many times?
Anyway, the crook at the salvage yard asks, "Are the primers still in them?" Nope says I. "Well the brass is contaminated with lead residue you know and that hurts the price." So I said what are you payin'? "Forty cents a pound." I laughed at him and hung up.

Duke

[little willie]

Duke,

We've got a ripoff yard like that here also.

I called sometime back, inquiring about their buying price on wheel weights. They said 10 cents, so I asked about their selling price, it was $1.25.

Obviously, I neither sold nor bought anything there.

little willie