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Plus to add insult to injury all the range buckets I emptied and brass I accumulated I went through with a magnet, pulled all the steel and staples out of, hand picked the aluminum, picked out trash, cig butts and sifted the sand out. The brass places would only take "clean" brass. Then spent $2.50 a gal for gas (14mpg truck)to drive 40 miles round trip to the salvage yard fighting traffic.

Nope, I rather just throw it away for less than .50 cents a pound.
 
Instead of throwing away usable brass, you could try "Paying It Forward" to THR members in need.

Never know, I have found goodwill seeded/paid forward has a way of coming back many folds. ;):D

ohihunter2014 just PIF some .308 brass I am going to PIF to a coworker to reload for his dad's rifle who passed away (along with complete single stage/Pro 1000 reloading set up and a new scope as additional PIF to replace the old blurry scope that's on the rifle now).
 
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jmorris said:
Rough night so someone check me but...

At $1.50 per pound for spent primers, there would be 1750, 4 grain spent primers in a pound.

So dividing $1.50 into 1750 pieces gives a value of $0.00085714285, per spent primer.

Every 12 you save will earn you a penny. 100 would get you $0.08 and 1000 would get you $0.85.
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Your math sounds correct.

I agree, its not a lot of money but it adds up for something that you would throw away otherwise. A single cartridge case is not worth much either but if you have the space to save them a 5 gallon bucket will be a few dollars.
 
I agree, every 100,000 would be $85.71, I have a couple hundred thousand if I could gather all the old powder jugs I have fill with them over the years.
 
I have the Hornady Lock n Load single stage press that has the little plastic primer catch. When full I dump them in to a mayo jar. Why throw them in the trash? Same effort and a small return but a return just the same.
 
I have saved spent primers for the last 3 years or so. I have 2 of the one pound size powder containers full of them and another almost full. They feel like 8-10 pounds each
 
bds said:
Instead of throwing away usable brass, you could try "Paying It Forward" to THR members in need.

Never know, I have found goodwill seeded/paid forward has a way of coming back many folds. ;):D

ohihunter2014 just PIF some .308 brass I am going to PIF to a coworker to reload for his dad's rifle who passed away (along with complete single stage/Pro 1000 reloading set up and a new scope as additional PIF to replace the old blurry scope that's on the rifle now).
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I don't throw away "usable" brass. I no longer pick up brass that is not mine.
 
Guess my previous post was misleading. I am now just gonna pitch my spent primers, I no longer sift through the brass buckets and do all the work for nothing.
 
Jonesy814 said:
I have saved spent primers for the last 3 years or so. I have 2 of the one pound size powder containers full of them and another almost full. They feel like 8-10 pounds each
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I have 3 of them. I just weighed them and all are right at 5 pds each. I would have guessed 8-10 also. Guess I'm not quite as rich as I thought.
 
Rule3 said:
Around here, the scrap metal places give you NOTHING for range brass or primers. A few years ago I got a little over $1/lb. Now it's like 0.37 cents/lb
The just don't want it. Aluminum cans are worth more per pound.

My collecting brass from the range for a retirement fund is done! It costs more in gas to drive to the salvage yard.
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As I said, around here they give about a buck and a half for brass. Aluminum cans only pay around .30 a pound on a good day. A bucket of brass gets me more monies than a whole trailer full of aluminum cans. Still, it isn't about making money, it's about being responsible and recycling. The scrap/recycling guy is less than a mile from me, and as I said before, when I have a trailer full of aluminum cans to take in, I take the bucket of brass along. Iffin my grandkids help load it and come along for the ride, they usually get the monies.
 
buck460XVR said:
As I said, around here they give about a buck and a half for brass. Aluminum cans only pay around .30 a pound on a good day. A bucket of brass gets me more monies than a whole trailer full of aluminum cans. Still, it isn't about making money, it's about being responsible and recycling. The scrap/recycling guy is less than a mile from me, and as I said before, when I have a trailer full of aluminum cans to take in, I take the bucket of brass along. Iffin my grandkids help load it and come along for the ride, they usually get the monies.
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Well that's nice where ever "around here" is? The market is not good here.

We recycle everything paper, plastic glass, metal. They come once a week. We don't buy sod or beer in aluminum cans,
The few spent primers now go in the recycle trash OK?

I am not driving over 20 miles to drop off a coffee can of primers.

Recycle is only when it is actually REUSED. There are a gazillion warehouses filled with "recycled" items that just sit there and have no been put back in actual use.

I spend my time doing coastal cleanups picking up tons of monofilament line, plastic bottles and other crap that idiots toss into the water and kill the birds and other marine life.
 
A five gallon bucket full of brass cartriges will weigh close to fifty pounds. Ten pounds per gallon average.

Where I take my scrap to was paying 90 cents a pound and sells it for $1.20 a pound to the big scrap dealer. I can buy it from him for the same price. I haven't yet, but thought adout it to see it i could make a little on playing with it.
Someday i will buy a bucket of it and see.
 
Walkalong said:
Me either, but when I eventually go to sell the scrap, I take them with me, no sense throwing them away.
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Can we give this a rest?

I am not throwing them away I am "recycling" I am not accumulating and scrap brass, therefore I am not going to the recycle center in a section of town I really do not want to ever be in OK?

If you pay the postage I will gladly send them to you or anyone else.:)
 
So its "being responsible" to make sure a tiny primer gets in the proper place but not a lead bullet that weights 50 times more?
 
Constrictor said:
So its "being responsible" to make sure a tiny primer gets in the proper place but not a lead bullet that weights 50 times more?
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And just think, What happens to all those PLASTIC primer sleeves and outer paper box????. If I had only saved all the plastic square holders I could have built a off the grid house with them, like Legos!
 
If you used Federal primers and had some erector set parts you could have been the guy making the Easy Luber automatic case lube tubes for Dillon’s.

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I often had people come by looking for a piece of metal for a project asking if I had any “drop” or scrap. If someone will pay for it, it’s not scrap. If you have something you want to get rid of, don’t set it out by the road with a “free” sign on it, it will be there next week. Put a for sale $50 sign on it and it will be gone by morning.
 
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