About 8 years ago, I stopped throwing away spent primers.....

[Scharfschuetze]

Can you guys imagine how many tons of lead we've sent downrange? The number of primers in a jar is stagering and the pounds of powder and lead that they represent must be somewhere in the stratosphere.

[Krieger82]

As others have said, i juat mix them in with ruined/unusable brass and scrap it. 25 bucks a bucket locally.

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[Bob in St. Louis]

Would it be worthwhile to cut the plastic off shotshells and save the metal, or is that just getting carried away?

[Bookworm]

Would it be worthwhile to cut the plastic off shotshells and save the metal, or is that just getting carried away?

"Dirty" brass is worth less than "clean" brass - but non-ferrous metals are always worth something to the scrappers.

[Plate plinker]

+1 on the recycle!
I have no problem with
recycling any of my metal.
I separate it all and they down
at the recycle yard like that.

Separating is a key to getting a better price, also they like pieces no larger than 3 feet in length.

[Bob in St. Louis]

Thanks Bookworm!

[dondiego]

Would it be worthwhile to cut the plastic off shotshells and save the metal, or is that just getting carried away?

Get a magnet. A lot of that so called shotshell "brass" is steel.

[Bob in St. Louis]

Get a magnet. A lot of that so called shotshell "brass" is steel.

That's what I figured, so they're almost worthless. About as worthwhile as the primers, but now the added labor of cutting off the plastic is added in.
I assumed that all shotshells are steel now-a-days. Correct?

[Grantb]

I save spent primers and .22 shells, and sell them for scrap to help fund the hobby. When I go to the gun range I mine the backstop for lead for casting and sweep up the spent .22 brass for selling.

[skeettx]

Mine go to the dumpster

[dondiego]

That's what I figured, so they're almost worthless. About as worthwhile as the primers, but now the added labor of cutting off the plastic is added in.
I assumed that all shotshells are steel now-a-days. Correct?

Most all I have seen recently were definitely ferrous. These are the stuff on sale.

[copdills]

I have a whole cast iron kettle full of shotgun primers that I use on the back of the board my loader is on , no movement from the loader lol

[Traffer]

It's interesting that I read this post at this time. I have just been working on getting 9mm stuff ready for reloading. (right now I only reload 22rf) I priced out the per round cost earlier today, was rather dismayed by the cost of primers. The cheapest they have them here is 4 cents per. That is more than half the cost of reloading the whole round. No friggin way Hosea. Marshall has been reloading primers for a while now. The process is unfortunately pretty slow. As I had to adapt, engineer, invent or develop the process of reloading rim fire, I am now going to focus on a working out an efficient way to RELOAD PRIMERS. Perhaps someday used primers will be more useful than they are now.

[gwpercle]

And I thought I was a packrat ! You got me beat hands down ....I've never hoarded spent primers!

[psweigle]

I turn mine in for scrap. It buys me more primers.

[Finster101]

Small primers make good .177 pellets. The occasional live one against a hard backstop is fun too.

[flint45]

I give mine to an old hippie down the road he makes brass cast figures and stuff that he sells he likes how small they are they fill real good in a small crucible.

[Plate plinker]

Small primers make good .177 pellets. The occasional live one against a hard backstop is fun too.

You don't say..... Chinese side cocker might get a try.

Sparrows be ware.

[RogerDat]

Coffee can sits by the bench. Damaged brass (mouth crushed w/ pliers) primers, and those annoying .22 brass get tossed in. Also most Berdan primer brass. But I know a guy that reloads that so if there is much of the berdan stuff I set it aside for him.

Scrap yard pays me for it, they pay more than lead per pound so my spent primers and bad brass becomes more lead. What the heck I'm going there anyway.

Shotgun primers and steel case ammo are kept out of the can. I will add that primers have a lead dust in them and can be a major source of lead contamination so a little care should be exercised to not let grand kids play in them etc.

[DanishM1Garand]

"Dirty" brass is worth less than "clean" brass - but non-ferrous metals are always worth something to the scrappers.

Shotshells are steel.