Keystone19250
SAINT
A question about who if anyone picks up there spent Brass to recycle for cash, a new recycling place opened up near me and I’m wondering if it would be worth picking it up? If anyone has what kind of dollar amount did you get?
Recycling Brass for Cash
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Old_Me
SAINT
i turned in a few pounds of brass i was saving for when i reload.
i got back then (this past summer) $2.00 per pound. made off with like $120. that day, went to the LGS and bought all new ammo
i still sweep up my brass and others at the ranges i go to. now, i am "saving" my first fired brass again, for when i decide to reload. the rest (of all mixed calibers) go into my 5 gallon pail.
i do however, remove any steel and aluminum casings, as that is what the guy at the recycler does anyways, and that gives me a different weight, than if i left it in the pail.
this last time, about 4 months ago, i got $1.80 per pound.
it goes by current market value, so it will fluctuate.
if you want to save up the spent brass, just toss them into pails, (remove the steel and aluminum) and just let it build up.
Recusant
Hellcat
As a younger I can remember walking a near-by rural road picking up soda bottles and turning them in at a local store for 2 cents apiece. I suspect that much of the brass you find at the range today is at least worth that much. There's always someone looking for brass to reload. The only brass I recycle is stuff that's not reloadable.
cico7
Custom
What/how do you melt it down?
In a propane-fueled forge. Put the brass in a crucible with a little bit of borax to help filter out the impurities, scoop them off, and pour it into a Petrobond mold.
TEXASforLIFE
SAINT
My range my brass my cash..... well savings anyway. As I reload my own so it's savings for me at brass prices or lack of finding.
Recusant
Hellcat
conax
Master Class
At a local gun shop (years ago) they would sell reloaded ammo in plastic bags. The same shop would buy certain calibers of once fired brass off us. It must have been outlawed I guess, they don't seem to have any now and the brass is scrap.
I think they paid about a nickel apiece for them. It has to be difficult to make brass casings, extruded to perfect dimensions and shapes.. They should recycle the stuff.
It seems wasteful to scrap it by the pound.
I think they paid about a nickel apiece for them. It has to be difficult to make brass casings, extruded to perfect dimensions and shapes.. They should recycle the stuff.
It seems wasteful to scrap it by the pound.
TEXASforLIFE
SAINT
2A Warehouse will send a box for you too pack your brass and get $1.80/lb, but only for credit of purchase. Maybe a good deal?
TEXASforLIFE
SAINT
Might not have had the permit to do so?
conax
Master Class
I figured it might have been liability issues. You may be right since we need a permit to crack a fart.
TEXASforLIFE
SAINT
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Old_Me
SAINT
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Pitdogg2
Professional
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Old_Me
SAINT
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TEXASforLIFE
SAINT
It's proposed, not signed yet? It might be part of how they'll get part of their spending bill? I don't know the whole thing, just part of what I've heard.