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    Default Will a scrap yard buy used brass?

    Ive been shooting for many years and never thought to save the brass until a buddy of mine said i should save it and sell it to a scrap yard. Ive seen a couple post but they were from years ago. Does anyone here do this? I see someone says they dont want .22 why is that? I always gather them up and throw them in the junk anyway when im done. Its a private range so you unlock the gate when you go in and theres no one there running it just have to pay yearly dues for a key. So i try to clean up after im done. Is there different types of brass like #1 and #2 so i know what to ask when i call them?

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    Default Re: Will a scrap yard buy used brass?

    I have seen buckets of casings at my local scrap yard, so I think they take them.


    Ill give you a tip though......Re loaders will give you 3-4X what their worth in scrap.


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    Default Re: Will a scrap yard buy used brass?

    Some do, some dont. We used to take casings at my uncle's recycling center in DuBois.
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    Default Re: Will a scrap yard buy used brass?

    Would you have to pop out old primers or are they made of brass too.

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    Default Re: Will a scrap yard buy used brass?

    Quote Originally Posted by APplaymaker View Post
    Would you have to pop out old primers or are they made of brass too.
    I wouldn't bother. That's just among the terms when you bargain to decide the value.

    If you get an extra $10, would you feel it was worth your time to deprime all of that stuff?

    The reloaders will resize anyway, and generally speaking we still have the decapping pins in our resizing dies.

    The only benefit might be in tumbling it, but again, I wouldn't bother with cleaning it either.

    Just put it in ziplock bags, sell by weight or "all that fits in this Quart/gallon bag, approximately xx pieces give or take" and put it in the classifieds.

    ETA: We don't want .22 lr or any other non-reloadable rim fire cartridge (that's already been fired) because it's ... well... non-reloadable by nature.
    Last edited by Mootness; April 14th, 2010 at 01:03 AM.

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    Default Re: Will a scrap yard buy used brass?

    To answer your question directly and simply, yes a scrap yard will buy used brass, but maybe not all scrap yards. As has already been said, all reloadable brass will be worth more to a reloader than a scrap yard. Now you may ask how to tell if the brass is reloadable or not.
    Generally speaking, centerfire brass cases with one flash hole in the center are easily reloadable. It's possible to reload centerfire cases with 2 flash holes but I don't know of anyone who does it.

    Steel cases are actually reloadable too, but again I don't know anyone who actually does it. (I did reload about 100 steel .223 just to see how it works and it does work just fine. I've heard that it's hard on the dies and you obviously won't get as many reloads out of each case, but it can be done.)
    The scrapyard doesn't really want the steel cases either, they'll take them but they don't pay much at all for steel.
    If you want to know a ballpark price to sell your used brass for to reloaders just search the Internet for "once fired brass", you'll find businesses that sell it. Some sell it cleaned, polished, deprimed, sized, you name it, others sell lower "grades" that have just been sorted and the damaged and tarnished ones removed. The few times I had brass for sale I tumbled it to clean it and advertised it for about ½ to ⅔ of what the lower grades of brass were selling for, depending on availability. I was pleasantly surprised at how much it was worth and how quickly it sold.
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    Default Re: Will a scrap yard buy used brass?

    Quote Originally Posted by RaisedByWolves View Post
    I have seen buckets of casings at my local scrap yard, so I think they take them.


    Ill give you a tip though......Re loaders will give you 3-4X what their worth in scrap.


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    What he said^^^^

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    Brass is paying about $1.50 a pound at the moment. It takes a lot of .22 shells to make a pound; not quite so many once-reloaded shells, though.
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    Default Re: Will a scrap yard buy used brass?

    I couldnt even count how many once fired 9mm, 45 acp, and .223 ive thrown away. What was i thinking someone should slap me lol.

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    Default Re: Will a scrap yard buy used brass?

    A 4/5ths full 5 gallon bucket gets me $85. That varies widely but as a median it's about right. The actual price per pound is a market value thing, changes constantly according to supply and demand. Why 4/5ths you ask. Cause a full one is just more weight than I care to pick up. I can let you know tomorrow, I have a partial bucket to drop off. I'll post per pound price.
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