I took the last of my bullet jackets to the scrapyard this morning. I've been selling the scrap to them as #2 copper for $1.95/lb. Really clean from the smelting process. Today the fella said the scrapyard was going to drop the price to $1.40/lb because it was now considered red brass since zinc and/or tin was used to make the gilding metal for the bullet jackets. He said they shipped their copper scrap straight to China and the bullet jacket scrap wasn't clean enough for their smelting process.
Anybody else run into this? Or am I being played?