Going Prices for Brass Cases

[deltaenterprizes]

I have an opportunity to pick up some 45 acp, 44 mag , 38 sp, 357 mag, 380 acp and 32 auto brass, what are these fetching now a days?

[geargnasher]

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/rbs_banner.php?id=11

don't know if you're getting them to sell, but if you are I'd be very interested in several hundred .357 Mag (known once-fired), I think they ought to be worth about 10 cents each but you could probably get more from a good "mark".

Gear

[LAH]

If for your own use you can go $3.00 per pound.

If you're selling..............$1.00-2.00 depending on how free of 9's & 40's the pile is.

[LAH]

If for your own use you can go $3.00 per pound.

If you're selling..............$1.00-2.00 depending on how free of 9's & 40's the pile is.

[mooman76]

I'm taking it as you are talking once fired, My general rule of thumb is half the price of new. A little less for the real common stuff like 9mm and 40 and a little more for the harder to get or less common brass.

[Shiloh]

The last .357 Mag brass I purchased, 500 pcs. about 14 months ago, were $28 plus shipping from someone at GunBroker. More nickle plated than I'd like but that's the breaks. I am flush for brass in the calibers I shoot.

I'd like about 300 of once fired Greek
.30-06 brass to add to my collection though. Thats the stuff that CMP was selling a while back.
Very consistent in weight and high quality brass.

Shiloh

[par0thead151]

i just bought a few thousand 40 cal once fired for 10$ a thou.
5.56 once fired for 30$ a thou
those are very good prices though.
i dont buy unless the price is just too good to pass up.

[stephen perry]

I don't pay nothin for scrounge brass. I just go in the garage open up another bottle and pour them out. They were all yours for the takin back in the 60's, where were you. I picked em up one at a time. The good old California Desert provided all the brass you could carry. Of course some of this is dated but I have buckets full of .223, 30-06, 45 ACP, .308, 9mm, .30 carbine, some .270, .243, 38 spl, 44 mag. It was all there gas was .22 cents a gallon drove a Ford Falcon wagon with air, even had a cabin in Johnson Valley.

Point is what the Yuppies let fly I picked up. To make you well heeled brass buyers sweat I have a friend in Mesa, Arizona out this morning as I write this scrounging the same as I did. He got 9000 9mm brass last week looking for more. We trade we never exchange money. I give him some loading manuals I had 2 or 3 the same he gives me a bag of 500 tumbed 45 brass. Works out. I gave him a couple cans of 30 carbine brass he gave me some bags of commercial .223. I bought cash money from my other Range bud a thousand commercial 30-06 and .243 brass once fired for $50. Of coarse being the bud he is he gave me 40 boxes of 22 and 6 jacketed bullets all makes as part of the deal he doesn't load them them any more. This helps him pay for for his hunting trip each year, he's retired on a fixed income.

Folks money is to hard for me to earn I have a kid in College I don't give money away I can help him with. You well heeled dudes need to talk to your grandpas' and find out what money is all about.

Stephen Perry
Angeles BR :brokenima

[XWrench3]

oh, that one is easy. WAY TO STINKING MUCH! i love to go out where others shoot and scrounge. i have picked up more than a few boxes of brass that way. in fact, maybe i will do that today for a while. i was just told of a place i havent been before. you never know what you will find.

[geargnasher]

SP, glad to hear you had sense to prepare yourself, but I wasn't even born until 1975, didn't start shooting centerfire until early 80s, and I've been scrounging brass since way before I started reloading in high school. Some of the calibers I load for now weren't invented yet. And in my neck of the woods, .357 Magnum has NEVER been exactly plentiful on the ground. I find myself having worn out the 10 or so boxes I've been reloading for years and am always looking to buy more. Some folks are caught uprepared by the recent insanity, but many others simply have to purchase components due to their situation.

Gear

[jsizemore]

I got 1000 45acp from fellow member Ridgerunner for $55 shipped. Once fired from police range. Quick transaction.

[mpmarty]

about 25 years ago I bought two five gallon buckets of TZZ (Israeli) 45 acp once fired out of shotgun news for a ridiculously cheap price. Still using the top half of the first bucket. Great brass!

[jsizemore]

about 25 years ago I bought two five gallon buckets of TZZ (Israeli) 45 acp once fired out of shotgun news for a ridiculously cheap price. Still using the top half of the first bucket. Great brass!

That's what I got from Ridgerunner.

[stephen perry]

Sorry some of you guys weren't around in the 60's but we of that era had a field day buying guns and brass. The NRA magazine always had a section selling military guns from all over the World most in the $20-$40 range. That bastard Oswald bought his gun that way. Most of this came to an end from the Gun Control Act of 1968.

Brass sold for 2 and 3 cents piece. All you could buy. Mostly military .223, .308, 30-06, .45 acp, 9mm. Some commercial stuff like .38 but not like military. I used allot of military brass, you could make a 30-06 case into most anything with a .473 bolt face such as .280, a short .270, 7x57, .257, .243, 22-250, .25-06, .220 Swift, .308. I used my .223 to make .222 also anything with .223 bolt size could be made like 6x45. Don't remember much .357 mag brass for sale but you could load +P loads from the .38 brass.

Money can buy allot of things but not innovation and that's what generations before this generation had. For some that's all they had money was tight.

Stephen Perry
Angeles BR :holysheep

[Bad Water Bill]

Back in the mid 60s I got many Mauser 98 rifles re barreled into 30-06 with a nice sporter stock from SEARS ROEBUCK & CO for $24.99 delivered.

[cajun shooter]

I've always heard that if you remember the 60's , you weren't there. Ha!! Ha!! The small 5 station range that my friend and I shot at on Saturday mornings was always full of shot and discarded brass. I purchased a new S&W 19 for $135 to shoot my reloaded 38's. Bought a Remington-Rand 45 and 4 boxes of ammo for $75. Those days are long gone and now the people who can buy and shoot factory ammo are picking up brass. I look and see what factory brass is selling for and use 50% of that for true once fired. The way things are now some sellers are asking more than new price.

[Blacksmith]

Fifty years from now these will be the good old days for some people. I don't expect to make it that long myself I'd be well in excess of 100 by then.
Blacksmith

[snowwolfe]

40 S&W's are so cheap I will not bend over to pick them up at the range when the cops are there. Seen them sell for $50 including shipping for a full medium sized USPS flat rate box containing approximately 3,000.
45's go for a little bit more. When I have them they sell for 6 cents each unsorted, if I go to the trouble to sort them I can get $40 for a bag of 500 Remingtons once fired.
Sometimes you can find some great deal on Gunbrokers for once fired brass.

I also sell mixed .223 brass for about 6 cents each and once fired Lake City .223 brass for just under 8 cents each when I have it. Just be patient and check around for what you may need and you can find a decent price. But don't forget, no matter what you pay for it, someone will claim they paid less:) Afterall, this is the internet.