Recycle spent primers

[cabezaverde]

I am posting this here because it seems to be the place that has the most experts on the scrap yards.

I have a couple of 8 lbs powder jugs full of spent primers, both shotgun and centerfire. Have any of you guys had any luck selling these at a scrap yard? If so, how do they price them?

[BigAlofPa.]

I put them in the bucket with scrap brass.

[farmbif]

scrap brass has been about $1 lb when you sell to scrap yard. But its been years since In worked in scrap business. if you can find a place that will let you trade for lead scrap that's what I would do. when buying brass from scrap yard it sells for about $3 lb. prices can change daily, scrap prices are just like stock market prices go up and down constantly.

[cabezaverde]

I put them in the bucket with scrap brass.

No problems?

[JimB..]

I separated mine, but at the scrap yard they dumped them all in the same bin. Same with nickeled brass cases.

[la5676]

Mine go straight into the trash can from the deprime tube and I don't bother to dig them out to recycle them. Shotshell primers are half steel anyway. Centerfire primers are so light, a guy could load 500 rounds a day, and still wouldn't have enough at the end of the month to buy a good bottle of bourbon with the redeem money he'd get from that.

[BigAlofPa.]

They didn't give me any issues. I also tell them not to sell the brass to reloaders. Because it's at the end of its useful life.

[Neverhome]

16 pounds (or whatever they actually weigh in the jugs) can’t be worth the bother. Even at a dollar a pound which I doubt given the mixed nature. I guess if you’re already making a trip there maybe...

My question is how many do you think are in there? 30,000? 50,000? Pretty impressive that you saved that many. What kind of time frame are we talking?

[jsizemore]

Two outfits wouldn't take them and another wouldn't take brass with the spent primer still installed. Too much crud in them for the metal recovered. Their rules not mine.

[jsizemore]

They didn't give me any issues. I also tell them not to sell the brass to reloaders. Because it's at the end of its useful life.

Hammer up side the head takes care of that.

[John Boy]

* Brass center fire primers can be recycled for $ at the scrap yards
*Steel shotgun primers = recycling bins with your other metals - plastics and paper

[JMax]

I put all of my spent primers in small plastic bottles then into my scrap bucket. I am on my 4th an when nearly full off to the scrap yard where they dump it all into a large plastic tub and look for steel and aluminum. Then I get paid with no problems.

[USSR]

I save all my spent brass primers and take them and brass cases to the scrap yard. $1.50 a pound is nothing to sneeze at.

Don

[jdfoxinc]

Saving mine to reload after TETOWAWKI.

[cabezaverde]

I have probably been accumulating them for 20+ years. The reason I thought of it is I have a couple of 5 gallon buckets of scrap brass to take in at some point.

[GOPHER SLAYER]

I only have one scrap yard that will take cartridge brass. I didn't ask about spent primers but since they will not take 22lr brass, I doubt they would want spent primers.

[bumpo628]

I just throw them in my scrap brass bucket and I've never had an issue. As long as there is no steel mixed in there it should be fine.

How much does 2 jugs of primers weigh?

[trapper9260]

I save my for when if the time comes that they are hard to come by ,to reload them.That is all primers of large and small and shotgun.

[MrWolf]

Seperate them with a magnet. Shotgun are not brass. I learned that at the scrap yard.

[krallstar]

I hear you can put them in shotgun shells when shtf