Spent Primers

[15meter]

Shotgun primers go in the scrap steel bucket to be sold when the pile gets big enough.

That's better than the whack job at the club who used to drop one spent primer into the shot cup as he was reloading. He loaded reduced skeet loads and used the primer to take up space. Too cheeeep to load a correct load.

Not something I'd do, run steel down my barrel even if it's inside of a plastic shotgun was.

Like I said, whack job.

He was also the guy who was outraged when he got kicked out of the club for game law violation(s)---5 dead deer and 1 license, AR-15 in a shotgun only area. Didn't think it was "fair" he got kicked out.

He's since past away, not a whole lot of mourning for him.

The rifle and pistol primers go in the brass bucket to be sold for scrap. Local scrap yard views it as just more brass.

[slim1836]

I have over 20 pounds of spent primers and a 2.5 gallon bucket of scrap cartridge cases. I need to get motivated to take them to the scrap yard.

Sell them on eBay, they'll buy anything.

Slim

[kevin c]

I keep mine, not sure what I'll do with them. They make good filler for shooting sandbags, a lot cheaper and not as heavy as bird shot.

I did that for a couple sets of suede shooting bags I made up, casing them in plastic first to kept the primer residue from leaking out the seams.

The rest my metals recycler will take, paying a bit less than the scrap cartridge brass I bring in (I'm honest enough not to mix them together).

A friend who sells prepped brass literally has an overflowing 5 gallon bucketful of spent primers. It's one heavy sucker that isn't going anywhere until he shovels out half of it.

[remy3424]

They are metal, landfills get plenty trash without add them to that mess. The local scrap metal buyer wants nothing to do with them as brass, they want the brass cases de-primed to pay brass price. All my spent primers go in with the misc scrap steel...same as wheel-weight clips, steel WWs, etc.

[ioon44]

The last I sold spent primers at a local scrap yard I received $1.90 per lb, the scrap yard wanted them separate from the other shell brass.

[tdoor4570]

Sweep them up when floor is swept and into the trash they go.

[dale2242]

They go in the same bucket as junk brass and sold to the recycler for the same price as cartridge brass.

[Dunross]

I do save them, but not for any particular purpose - yet.

I suppose it might one day come to having to try reloading them, but not at this point.

A one liter soda bottle will hold a LOT of spent primers so it's not like they take up much space.

[PhilC]

Save mine since I have a clear plastic tube that runs from my press to container of spent primers. Have no interest in reusing them, just doing my part in recycling when container gets full.

[upnorthwis]

My local scrap guy wouldn't take my half a 5 gallon bucket of 209's. I used them as gravel in driveway. All the pieces in them are magnetic, so they aren't brass.

[lightman]

I save them to recycle. I just sold two 5 gallon buckets of cartridge brass and 2 gallons of fired primers for $280 a pound. Only rifle and pistol primers, as shotgun primers are not all brass. It was a pretty good payday!

You need to call around, some yards won't take cartridge brass.

[TyGuy]

I save them to recycle. I just sold two 5 gallon buckets of cartridge brass and 2 gallons of fired primers for $280 a pound. Only rifle and pistol primers, as shotgun primers are not all brass. It was a pretty good payday!

You need to call around, some yards won't take cartridge brass.

$280/lb?!? I want to go to your scrap yard! Haha

[Vrjistaat260]

No, in South Africa scrap metal yards dont accept primers or cases with primers still present police policy ....

[Eddie17]

I’ve made money on spent primers.
Save them in used an cleaned PB jars.
Was well worth the effort!

[lightman]

$280/lb?!? I want to go to your scrap yard! Haha

I called several places. A few would not touch cartridge brass and the others offered from 50 cents up to $2. So it paid to call around.

[dondiego]

My local scrap guy wouldn't take my half a 5 gallon bucket of 209's. I used them as gravel in driveway. All the pieces in them are magnetic, so they aren't brass.

209's are half and half. The outer collar are often steel and the primer cup is brass. Most scrap yards will only give you shred prices which is about 6 cents per pound.

[jessdigs]

They get melted in the forge and then turned into ingots or things like brass apples for the kids teachers

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[trapper9260]

I save my for reloading . My primers 209 and SP and LP for how things are going on the price . When I am down on factory ones and the price is not going down like it should within reason , I will reload all of my .

[Sasquatch-1]

I save them to recycle. I just sold two 5 gallon buckets of cartridge brass and 2 gallons of fired primers for $280 a pound. Only rifle and pistol primers, as shotgun primers are not all brass. It was a pretty good payday!

You need to call around, some yards won't take cartridge brass.

Can I have the phone number of this yard? It would be worth the trip even if it is on the "Left Coast".

[Bigslug]

Trash 'em.

At the point I'm saving used primers, I figure it's a short trip from there to saving my pee in a jar for the black powder works.