Recycling spent primers?

[pergoman]

Just wanted to see how many guys save their spent primers for recycling.
What does you scrap yard classify them as and how much per pound are they paying?

[Michael J. Spangler]

I haven't sold any in a while. Last time I had a box full of spent primers and some brass that was unusable. I think I told them them primers were copper and they paid copper prices.

[ku4hx]

I should do this I guess, but I deprime on an old 1970 vintage RCBS Jr press and its catcher is not the best. By the time I get around to sweeping them up off the garage floor, or sucking them up with the Shopvac, they just go into the trash.

I can save the world in only so many ways and this isn't one of them.

[trapper9260]

I reload my spent primers

[zuke]

I sell them as brass and toss'em in with all the 40 and 223 when I do a scrap run.
I have 3/4 of a green garbage can full,about time for a scrap run!

[fecmech]

I sell them as "yellow brass" which currently around here is $1.50/lb.

[Shuz]

The last primers and brass I sold to a scrappie was worth $1.70/lb. That was about 6 to 8 months ago. I also sold it as "yellow brass".

[big dale]

I have two or three one pound coffee cans full of spent large pistol primers that I have saved. I figure one of these days I will get around to assembling a blunderbuss kit. I think it would be a bunch of fun at a gravel pit.

Have fun with this stuff.

Big Dale

[mdi]

I reload my spent primers

OK trapper, I'll bite; How do you reload your spent primers?

[DukeInFlorida]

I sell them as 70-30 cartridge brass. Also about $1.70 a pound.
I had been saving them up for a long time, and sold about 20 pounds of them to one of the CB members. He was going to use them as tumbling media... Not sure how that worked out for him.

Since then, they get tossed in with all of the other scrap brass.

[JohnFM]

I've got a good spent primer recovery system on my press, they all get dumped into a bucket.
Haven't weighed it for a while, but they add up fast.

[Animal]

OK trapper, I'll bite; How do you reload your spent primers?

I second that

[waco]

I've read some on the topic. Sounds very tedious.

[Shiloh]

The folks here take them and pay spot scrap brass prices.

Shiloh

[pergoman]

I am fortunate that my scrap yard guys are all shooters and there isn't a single reloader in the bunch. They save lead wheel weights in buckets and I can trade for reloaded ammo or my scrap brass/coper if I choose. To me it is free coww. I have never traded the spent primers though. I will be doing that in the future.

[725]

I dump all the brass (including the spent primers) in the recycle bucket.

[bhn22]

There are YouTube videos, or you can check out your copy of the military "Improvised Munitions Handbook".

This will get you started: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7nphPRG6JA

[Miata Mike]

I too have got yellow brass price of $1.70. My current recycler doesn't pay very well, so I will save'm up along with my other scrap cartridges and bring them to my original scrapper.

[lightman]

I dump them in the scrap brass bucket. It takes awhile to get enough to sell, and I don't remember what I got the last time. Lightman

[jwber]

I keep mine in a separate container than my bad brass. Haven't returned any yet, but I've heard of a few instances where scrap yards won't take the primers do I don't want to have to separate just in case.