What's this reloading stuff worth?

[1KPerDay]

I inherited a bunch of miscellaneous stuff a few years ago and just went through it... anything of any real interest here? I'd like a general value just for my curiosity's sake if possible.

300 Hornady .45 ACP 185 gr weird half-jacketed truncated cone bullets
1000 markell 146 gr .38 WC bullets
600 markell 158 gr .38 LRN
300 Speer 148 gr .38 WC
100 markell .45 SWC Keith 250 gr
100 markell .45 SWC 215 gr
100 Remington LRN .45 230 gr
50 Winchester .457 510 gr SP
500 Norma .308 150 gr SP BT
1000 Power Piston Remington wads
Lyman 450 sizer/lubricator
Saeco Utility furnace
Mec shotshell reloader (single stage I think)
20# Hodgdon 4895 powder
Bair single stage press (no dies that I've found yet)
Few hundred .270 Win brass
Few hundred .30-06 brass (surplus WWII stuff)

Any info would be helpful... any of this stuff particularly useful/desirable? thanks

 

[bobotech]

100 bux?

Have no idea but awesome score. Have fun!

 

[SASS#23149]

at retail,800.00 +-, of course you wont get retail from us bargain hunters,but there is tons of interest in what you have.
the powder is best if face-to-face,must pay hazmat fee and shipp corretly otherwise.
are you looking to seel it as a lot? you'll get more by breaking it up,but it's more work too.

 

[1KPerDay]

Not really looking to sell it... I was just curious what it would cost to get it today if I started from scratch. I'd like to reload and have been saving my brass for years but I've got a lot of small kids and no time. Are all single-stage presses pretty much the same? Do all of the major-brand dies have the same thread pitch? Is that a reasonably versatile powder? Can you load .38 special or .45 ACP with it or is it rifle only? I'm pretty clueless where reloading is concerned as you can probably tell.

Guess I need to buy a .45-70 so i can use those 510 grainers... dangit.

Oh I have a few thousand CCI primers in large pistol rifle etc. also

 

[moosehunt]

Once you get past all the misc. bullets, you've got some decent stuff of value. 20 # of Hodgen 4895? That's selling in the neighborhood of $15-$18 per pound now days! Unless the Bair press is a weirdo, it takes standard dies--a good press, has some value. The Lubrisizer, if in good condition should find high demand ($75-$100). Mec loaders--single stage 600's--are regularly bringing better than $50 on e-bay, .270 brass has value, should be worth a minimum of $40/100--military '06 isn't real valuable, but it's worth more than a sharp stick in the eye, especially in quantity. Don't know a lot in regard to the furnace, but logic tells me it has real value, real value! Look at e-bay and you'll be surprised at what these things are bringing!

 

[1KPerDay]

Thanks!

Does the sizer/lubricator use proprietary dies? How does it work?

 

[moosehunt]

It works fine. You put in a caliber specific sizer and a bullet specific top punch and start running out lubricated quality cast bullets (that came out of you furnace). But I don't think you know how to get from point a to point b, let alone point g.
Sounds like you don't know anything about this reloading stuff--definately not a crime!

You need to get with someone who does and that you can trust and let him help you market it so that you don't get screwed royally!

 

[lordgroom]

The Lubrisizer will use Lyman or RCBS sizing dies.

 

[loadedround]

Please bear in mind that you would also need bullet casting moulds before you could ever begin to use your lub/sizer and casting furnace. These moulds can cost you upto to 100.00 each for new quality steel ones. FWIW.

 

[krs]

Moosehunt is right about how much old reloading stuff brings in ebay. Those kids are desperate!!

I sold my lubrisizer for $110. which was pretty good since I paid less than $30. for it, but the big surprise was my grungy old Lee melting pot that went to $175. off of my $29.95 starting bid and no reserve. I had to go look at what new ones cost to see if I'd missed something and that sell price was more than $100. more than a new one (20 lb. pot - different than the current product some - the spout handle was different and I guess somehow more desirable). It's just amazing what some of those people will pay when they get to bid for something they want.

I sold about fifteen sets of dies for calibers I don't think I'll ever use again, all RCBS, and the lowest price any of them brought was the same $10. I paid when new. Most of the dies went over $30. a set.

Ebay won't let you sell bullets or brass anymore - in fact don't even offer to give brass away with dies. I had a set of RCBS competition dies for .22-250 listed and was throwing in 200 new cases with the deal. They closed my auction down on the last day with a bid of over $120. I relisted the dies and still got $117.

But if you want to sell reloading stuff, except anything to do with the actual cartridge, ebay's the place.

 

[1KPerDay]

Please bear in mind that you would also need bullet casting moulds before you could ever begin to use your lub/sizer and casting furnace. These moulds can cost you upto to 100.00 each for new quality steel ones. FWIW.

I found a couple of those also... forgot to list them.

 

[1KPerDay]

Sounds like you don't know anything about this reloading stuff

Hey, I told you I was clueless... whaddaya want from me? LOL

How does the lube get into the sizing die? Do you pre pack it or something? Or just smear each pill with lube and then run it through the die?

 

[GP100man]

a bench is in order & don`t build it too small ,ya need somewhere to put the youngin`s to work !!
I make mine wear gloves so when they go out they leave residual traces of bad stuff in the room .

theres some good reading in the stickys but get ya a lyman reloading manual study alittle & questions are welcomed no matter how crazy ya think they are!!

 

[something vague]

Buy lots of books if you plan to seriously take up this hobby. I must say if you're anything like me than be careful, it becomes an addiction! There are lots of great books out there about reloading and casting and I would highly reccomend you check some out. Just for one to start with check out "ABC's of Reloading", then you can expand from there. Once you have decided if you want to continue on the next purchase(s) would be some Manual(s), and I would highly reccomend more than one! If you don't plan on continuing on with this hobby I would be more than happy to take some of those .38 bullets off your hands.

 

[ReloaderFred]

Wow, all those Markell bullets! I knew Al Markell before he passed away in the early 1980's. He was one of the first to recognize that hard bullets weren't always called for, and made his bullets from softer alloy.

Hope this helps.

Fred

 

[JimKirk]

1k,
The 450 has a chamber at the back, look there should be a threaded rod sticking out of a threaded cap that screws into the chamber. You put a hollow stick of lube over that screw and screw the cap back on. Then for each bullet you size, you turn the threaded rod with a wrench(the amount depends on what size bullet lube grooves are), push the handle back up and presto you have a sized - lubed bullet!

Jimmy K

 

[1KPerDay]

Thanks!

 

[edelbrock]

Is that a reasonably versatile powder? Can you load .38 special or .45 ACP with it or is it rifle only?

H-4895 is a very versatile rifle powder. Not for pistol.

 

[1KPerDay]

Thank you.