The brass hounds go from pit to pit scavenging all the brassvthey can find. They even pick up the 22lr, 22mag and 17hmr brass. Last summer our local recycle guy was paying ninty cents a pound for yellow brass.
A five gallon bucket of brass will weigh about fifty poundsn about ten pounds a gallon for rifle & pistol cases and they can be nickel plated.
A friend is big in to Cowboy Action Shooting and does a lot of rifle, pistol and shotgun reloading. When he takes in his scrap case he takes in a bucket of spent primers. Same price as scrap yelliw brass.
You can buy five gallon buckets of brass from the recycler, if he pays $50 for a five gallon bucket of brass you can buy it from him for $75.
One of these days I will buy a bucket or two from him and sort it all out, clwan it up and see if I can make a couple of bucks on it.
If not I will add it to my collection of brass that I have picked up and cleaned up.
The best day of picking brass at the pit for me was twenty-two pounds in a day.
I have a full three gallon bucket of range brass up in my gun room that I have to sort, deprime and wet tumble.
All of my spent primers go in a bucket, the bad cases get pinched with channel locks and go in to another bucket.
A bucket of primers will be heavier then a bucket of rifle & pistol cases because they pack in tighter then the cases. With the cases there is a lot of air space.
I will not take my brass scrap in until I get around $200 worth and I will use that money to put a gun on lay away.