Scrapping brass

**weaver** · June 21st, 2019, 07:01 AM

Then I’m an asshole because it’s my brass and I don’t feel like sorting it and dealing with trying to sell it.

**normanvin** · June 21st, 2019, 07:05 AM

When I take metal in for scrap I will call around and ask prices. It could be worth the effort.

**weaver** · June 21st, 2019, 07:25 AM

That will be mondays task while I’m off.

**thebearpack** · June 21st, 2019, 08:24 AM

Originally Posted by Yoder

I think if you take perfectly good brass to the scrap yard you are an asshole. Sell it to people who reload. You will get more money and help fellow shooters.

Wow. I'm an asshole because I pick up my own brass and sell it to be recycled rather than sorting it by caliber and haggling over price with some stranger for a few bucks? Now I've heard it all. You have an odd definition of asshole, and you and I might disagree on who fits that definition.

**Kramer** · June 21st, 2019, 09:30 AM

Originally Posted by weaver

Then I’m an asshole because it’s my brass and I don’t feel like sorting it and dealing with trying to sell it.

No, I fully understand how you feel. I did the sorting and selling thing and I even priced it lower than what others were asking only to have guys offer less than scrap value for it. Especially 40 S&W, nobody wants to buy that stuff.

**Sgt.K** · June 21st, 2019, 01:15 PM

Originally Posted by weaver

Ok fixed my spelling error so now it’s right. And I never thought to ask google where the best place was!!! I was just curious if and where others took their used brass, I know where the local scrap yards are. I have mostly 5.56 and a little bit of nickel plated 9mm and some 45.

To answer the bold - I take my used brass to the basement to run thru my tumbler (got over 500 pieces of .45ACP running as we speak) so I can reload it, 'cause I am a cheap bast frugal guy, and I go thru over 100 rounds a week.

**Yoder** · June 21st, 2019, 09:01 PM

Originally Posted by thebearpack

Wow. I'm an asshole because I pick up my own brass and sell it to be recycled rather than sorting it by caliber and haggling over price with some stranger for a few bucks? Now I've heard it all. You have an odd definition of asshole, and you and I might disagree on who fits that definition.

I definitely fit that description. Not for scrapping brass, but for just about everything else.

**Yoder** · June 22nd, 2019, 08:19 AM

I never thought of the effort involved in separating brass and selling it. Also I really hate the dirt bag brass rats at the public ranges scurrying around picking up their precious. I know they are scrapping it and someone could reload it. This is where asshole comes to mind. I shouldn't put everyone in that category.

**weaver** · June 22nd, 2019, 04:01 PM

I really dislike the guys who pick up someone else’s brass without asking. You look at them like wtf. I get my brass from where I work. Some of its usable without a doubt and some isn’t. I’m not picking through it to separate caliber or the unusable brass.