Recycle those spent primers!

[Shuz]

FWIW, today I took 2 small medicine bottles full of spent primers accumulated from my reloading over the past few months. I was surprised to receive $1.65/lb for them! They checked them for steel, ran them over a sander and determined....yep they're brass...Here's $4.95 for them!

[Charlie Two Tracks]

Very good! That is not bad at all. A great way to dispose of them. Thanks for the tip.

[Jailer]

All of mine go in the scrap bucket to get recycled. I got $2/lb yesterday for the scrap brass I turned in.

[TCLouis]

I guess a 48 oz coffee can full will buy a cup of coffee then.

I jus gotta get all my metal to the scrap dealer

[Johnch]

Yep pistol , rifle and shotgun primers all get recycled
Along with junk brass and 22 brass

I just recycled 2 5 gallon buckets of Blazer AL brass

Don't remember what they paid for it
But it was worth saving

John

[twotoescharlie]

I shoot mine in my blunderbuss.

TTC

[geargnasher]

I shoot mine in my blunderbuss.

TTC

HAAAAA! Also an excellent way to rid oneself of rusty nails, screws, small nuts and bolts, and the steel beads that accumulate under the plasma cutter and torch table. I have a friend that has one, and if I bring him a gallon paint can full of scrap he lets me shoot it a few times. I've fired spent primers in my .45 muzzle-loader pistol with common cardboard wads, really tough on milk jugs!

Gear

[nanuk]

I need to collect some as I want to try to "Reload" them... I don't shoot scads of rounds so have never considered it in the past... but a new day is dawning....

trying to figure out if I can still shoot after one of our Socialist/LeftWing Gov'ts (if one ever gets elected again) makes all those components illegal

[geargnasher]

Nanuk, if you're really worried about preparing for that, get a large caliber air gun and an airgun boolit mould, too. And do all you can politically to protect your gun interests.

Gear

[nanuk]

Air guns that shoot over 500fps... or is it 500fps or more, are firearms here and will suffer the same fate.

so far, rocklocks are still considered Non-firearms

it is the "component" issue that I get concerned about. Some time ago, our local gun club president was at a meeting where the local Gov't rep said the RCMP were considering restricting Primers. Brass was very hard to get back then also.

Lets just hope our Conservative Government gets a majority and does some cleaning of our laws to entrench property rights.

Oh, and I am politically active regarding firearms ownership!

[onondaga]

Glory be to the rock lock. I live on the Onondaga Escarpment, lots of Onondaga flint here. I am a flint knapper and can at least shape the stuff well enough to fit a rock lock if I have to.

Gary

[cabezaverde]

Do you need to leep the shotgun primers separate from rifle and pistol? I have 2 4 lbs. powder jugs full of mixed spent primers.

[dverna]

Nanuk,

I immigrated from Ontario to the US in 1990 as I could see Canada was going down the tubes. In 2005 I became a US citizen. I feel your pain and understand your concerns.

I wish you and the other Canadian gun owners luck.

What has happened in Canada is a good lesson for American gun owners. Rights are eroded gradually until we have none.

Don

[doubledown]

[QUOTE=dverna;1237171]Nanuk,


What has happened in Canada is a good lesson for American gun owners. Rights are eroded gradually until we have none.


AMEN!

[bobthenailer]

been recycling spent primers for over 20 years ! I currently have a bucket with brass & primers thats almost filled up now . brass is currently going for $2.00 a lb in my area

[NVcurmudgeon]

I guess it all depends on where you live. In the Reno area local recyclers won't buy brass cartridge cases because they are afraid to smelt it without a closed contaner to melt it in. I have sold odds and ends of copper and brass plumbing junk, and was paid insulting prices. I asked the same recycler if they had any WW for sale and was told that they have to save it for "a big outfit." I asked if it was Red China and got a nod for an answer. Now all my usable or tradeable brass is saved. All other metallic junk is tossed in the trash. I'd rather it went to a landfill than to those Commie lowlives.

[nanuk]

NVcurmudgeon:
our local metal recycler will NOT sell to anyone but their buddies. and forget about any lead products.

they too pay in insulting price for metal.

and they find any way they can to screw you. such as if they find ANYTHING that is NOT brass in the load such as a steel washer, the whole load is prices as steel.

that got me thinking.....
are the "Anvils" in a primer steel or brass?

[mpmarty]

I don't sell my spent primers for scrap. One day I'll learn how to "reload" those too. Remove anvil, scrape out ash, flatten with a punch, slather in some primer compound and re-seat the anvil.

[Jim]

I don't sell my spent primers for scrap. One day I'll learn how to "reload" those too.....

Look at THIS (http://fgsp.wordpress.com/2010/12/16/reloading-a-primer/)

[XWrench3]

What has happened in Canada is a good lesson for American gun owners. Rights are eroded gradually until we have none.


the only problem is that way to many americans are way to complacent. they don't thing the government is trying to do bad by us, YET. unfortunatly, by the time they wake up, it is going to be way to late.

[songdog53]

What has happened in Canada is a good lesson for American gun owners. Rights are eroded gradually until we have none

Most of people have the attitude that they can never do that here. Problem is they can and will if we don't stand up for our rights.

[475BH]

They can dig mine out of the "sanitary[smilie=l:landfills" in a hundred years when they start mining them.:takinWiz:((always wanted to use that smiley))

[odoh]

NVcurmudgeon:
. . . . . . .

that got me thinking.....
are the "Anvils" in a primer steel or brass?

Good question ~ my guess would be since dissimilar metals can experience galvanic electrolysis, it would be the same or nearly the same as the cup mat'l. . .?

[bubba 2]

bought my last 3 guns and all my casting and reloading equipment with scrap brass

[evan price]

The anvils and cups of regular cartridge primers are all brass. Shotgun 209 primers have a steel outer shell and shouldn't be mixed with brass. I put all my spent primers and old keys and plumbing scraps and junk cartridge brass in buckets together. I've got 7 buckets full to take in. Been saving since the market price dropped in 2009.

[bslim]

Just took in a 5 gallon pail of scrap range brass. I got a $1.70 / lb. worked out to $105 for the pail full. I live 40 minutes away from our range and if I remember to pick up discarded brass at the range, it pays for my fuel. I like the tip on the primers, I stopped saving them (now I know) when I mixed shotgun primers with pistol and rifle primers. The scrap dealer rejected the whole works. Once upon a time, I could walk down the street with my .22 rifle and head to the outskirts of town to shoot gophers. Today I would be reported and detained by the police for questioning. My how times have changed.