I just took 2 five gallon buckets of jackets to the scrap yard. They were paying $2.10 a pound for yellow brass. Walked out with $182.00. Moral is, save your jackets when melting the lead out.
I just took 2 five gallon buckets of jackets to the scrap yard. They were paying $2.10 a pound for yellow brass. Walked out with $182.00. Moral is, save your jackets when melting the lead out.
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Just turned in 42 pounds of scrap brass, spent primers, $2 a pound. I’ll take it. Five day wait on the copper jackets check. Scrap is up down here in Louisiana.
PLUSSSS, in the lead barrel was a Linotype pig! (it’s not there anymore,)
I firmly believe that you should only get treated by how you act, not by who or what you are!!
I have several buckets of what I have scraped off when smelting range scrap out in the garage. I took one to the local scrapyard a year or 2 ago and they didn’t want it because it was so dirty… rocks, dirt, and some lead still mixed in. I guess I need to go through them and clean them up somehow.
A vote for anyone other then the conservative candidates is a vote for the liberal candidates.
If my guy finds one steel jacket with a magnet, he is not taking them...for brass or copper pricing...they are not excited about them, it is the bits of lead I am guessing
Take a kid to the range, you'll both be glad you did.
I haven't melted range scrap in a long time but if I did I would save the jackets. I even save and recycle the clips from clip-on weights and spent primers!
My yard denied me the first time I tried last year due to brass jackets. This time, I took a old Plastic tub, dissolved a handful of LemiShine in the water, and soaked them down. It helps take the tarnish off and lets you pick out the brass jackets. It took a couple hours, but I ended up with 4 buckets full. I believe the total between two trips was $686. Well worth the effort. Second trip I scored 3 full bars of 50/50 solder for $.60 a lb.
I've mentioned it here before, but about a year ago I landed a 5 gallon bucket 1/4 full of perfectly good jacketed bullets. .308, .270, 9mm, .40, and .45. Ended up being over 1,000 bullets for the grand sum of $5. Scrap yards are a gold mine for casters. Check often.
A vote for anyone other then the conservative candidates is a vote for the liberal candidates.
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |