Shhhh! Don’t tell anybody. I went dumpster diving at the….

[Budzilla 19]

In ‘14, I went west of my house about 2-2 1/2 hours, asked the owner of a sporting clays course, if I could have some empties? Yep, you can, but ya gotta take em all! Sure,I said. Boy, o boy, did I get a load! At the time, I had a ‘97 Dodge 3/4 ton long bed. Full to the top of the bed! Holy mackerel! Took a full day of sorting. Now will never scrounge hulls ever again.

That was an awesome catch!
Good luck

[Russel Nash]

I can't believe they let you cart off all those hulls! Don't they usually sell the empties to vendors like BPI and Precision Reloading?

There was another big trapshooting match out there back in May or June called the US Open.

I didn’t realize it was going on. I showed up to shoot trap there all by myself and to check out some shotguns they had there at the small mom and pop gunstore.

So they told me to come back like a week later.

That’s when I was I asked about all the empties.

The guy who supervises all the trap fields goes “Ahhh, man! You just missed it! They hauled away the dumpster this morning. But there is a trailer down there that has a seed bag on it you could check out.”

My reply was something like, “About 4 years ago I was driving by the pistol berms and there were all these bags full of empty shells. And this was like two months after the Grand.”

He replied, “Those seed bags suck. We will never do that again!”



I wasn’t into the shotgun sports at the time, so I never dug through those seed bags back then.

So I asked him, “For the Grand can a guy just sit out there where they are shooting doubles trap and scrounge up all the shells between squads?”

He responded with, “NO! During the Grand, once the hulls hit the ground, they are the property of the ATA. But when they are in the dumpster, they are fair game for anyone!"

“From the dumpsters, then where are they going?” I asked .

His reply was “HOPEFULLY TO A LANDFILL!”

[Russel Nash]

Please keep this a discussion thread and do not make offers to buy any of the stash.

Nice haul, why don't they offer them to locals for a nominal fee before hauling to the dump? I'm afraid I'd be backing my truck up and filling the box to the brim if I found a dumpster full.

12 gauge hulls really aren’t worth that much.

Maybe a penny a piece to a nickel a piece, tops.

I was asking one of the guys at work who specializes in instrumentation or automation about cobbling together an apparatus for sorting the shells by color.

It just so happened that he used to shoot a skeet league. So he said, “28 gauge and .410 would be the only ones worth doing that for. They are going for 15 or maybe 20 cents each.”

Soooo….NO! I won’t be trying to sell any here or elsewhere for that matter.

[W.R.Buchanan]

Over at Trapshooters.com the going price for O/F Win AA's or STS's is .04-5 each. I bought 2500 from a guy in Vegas a few years ago for $100, I was over there for a Front Sight Class and drove up to his house and picked them up. Free Shipping if you pick them up.

.410's are another story and a good price is .15 each, and many times it is .25 each.. I paid $150 for 1000 Win AAHS's.

IF you don't need them you could sell them somewhere?

Randy

[slim1836]

Here's an idea for ya, very easy to make using miniature lights. Give em away at Christmas.

Slim

[Winger Ed.]

[Here's an idea for ya,

I'd forgotten about repurposing them.

No redneck's home is complete without a shotgun shell wreath for the holiday season.

Over on etsy, the Amazon for arts & crafts stuff, bags of them are rather pricey.

[Russel Nash]

My other “truck” is paid off:



Unfortunately, it is slowly turning itself into a pile of rust.

But, yeah, you got me. Totally gay.

How I have avoided the monkey pox so far is a miracle!



Considering how long it takes me to sort through just one box of hulls, I am glad I was limited to just a car.

But let’s think about this for just a minute, if I was “ baller” enough to afford a new truck…. You have priced out new trucks lately, right?

Then I would have so much money I wouldn’t have to dumpster dive….

To get hulls to reload with….

Because I could just buy pallets of factory ammo…

And never worry about reloading…

P.S. I was a carpenter, and I have hung enough drywall, framed enough houses, shingled enough, to know that if people knew I had a truck, they would want me to work on their stuff during my time off.

Soooo…. Some inquiry like, “Hey, Russel, can you hang some dr….” Gets met with a really quick, “NOPE! Can’t carry 4 by 8 sheets on the Mustang. Sorry…..(not sorry)”

[Wag]

And people always want you help them move.

--Wag--

[quack1]

Back in the 70's I worked with a guy that was treasurer for a trap range in a nearby town. One day he was saying that after work he had to go rake and burn shotgun shells from a weekend registered bird marathon. I asked about picking some up for reloading, he said take as many as you want. My wife went along, and after showing her how to look for good, once fired ones, we picked up a lot. I only wanted AA, RXP and Blue Magic hulls. We went a couple more times after they had the marathons, and ended up with so many that, nearly 50 years later, I still have a couple large boxes of them.

[Winger Ed.]

And people always want you help them move.

I finally got out of the moving hobby.
After my back bulged a disc, I quit helping anyone move,
and after I got the F250 with a 6 speed manual, nobody wants to borrow it.

[Tripplebeards]

I call 10 gauge hulls!