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My gun club had a steel plate match this weekend. This afternoon I scrounged roughly 8,500 pcs of 9mm brass. Tomorrow I hit the scrap yard and they give me a hundred dollars for it. Then I call PA and buy 4,000-5,000 pellets with the money, 48 hours later I pick them up so UPS gets cheated out of the opportunity to destroy them.

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Dr. Kralenstein said:
Do you have to remove the primers before you take them in? That adds to the time invested, still worth it though, just curious. I know cylinder heads I've stripped and been screwed for not removing the hardened steel valve seat and they called it breakage... 3 cents/lb vs the 55 cents aluminum was at the time. Crooks lol.
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Nope. I pick them up off the ground, throw them in the five gallon pail and then they go to the scrapper. They always ask if there are any live rounds, but as I find live rounds they go in my pocket.
The primer cup and anvil are both brass as well.
 
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Have you called a few different scrap yards for prices? Several years ago I took in about 3/4 full 5 gallon bucked in of scrap brass and got like $180 for it. I had called a few places and their scrap prices were over $1.00 per pound difference from lowest to highest. Only had to drive about 5 minutes more to get the better deal.
 
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rcs9250 said:
My gun club had a steel plate match this weekend. This afternoon I scrounged roughly 8,500 pcs of 9mm brass. Tomorrow I hit the scrap yard and they give me a hundred dollars for it. Then I call PA and buy 4,000-5,000 pellets with the money, 48 hours later I pick them up so UPS gets cheated out of the opportunity to destroy them.

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That there is a hustler's mentality. Smart thinking.
 
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charlie99 said:
Have you called a few different scrap yards for prices? Several years ago I took in about 3/4 full 5 gallon bucked in of scrap brass and got like $180 for it. I had called a few places and their scrap prices were over $1.00 per pound difference from lowest to highest. Only had to drive about 5 minutes more to get the better deal.
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Yes, there are four scrap vendors in the area. The best one is $2/pound currently. The price varies widely amongst the four. The lowest is a rapist at 50¢ per pound.
For whatever reason, ammunition brass commands a lower price than brass like in faucets or or other configurations.
During covid hoax I sold it for $50 per medium flat rate box packed to maximum (plus flat rate fee). It would last about three minutes on Accurate Shooter. com.
Doesn’t seem to be much interest currently, plus packing so workers don’t destroy box is time consuming and uses a lot of tape.
 
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Too bad primer costs are the only thing really holding back reloaders. Brass would go pretty quick on brianenos forum when primers were still $30 a 1000. Now at $80 1000 it is getting up to factory ammo prices. I have 5 gallon buckets of 9mm, 40, 45 , 223, and 308 but my primer stash is getting low and don't want to start replenishing with over priced primers.
 
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Joedirt199 said:
Too bad primer costs are the only thing really holding back reloaders. Brass would go pretty quick on brianenos forum when primers were still $30 a 1000. Now at $80 1000 it is getting up to factory ammo prices. I have 5 gallon buckets of 9mm, 40, 45 , 223, and 308 but my primer stash is getting low and don't want to start replenishing with over priced primers.
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Locally, during the height of covid hoax my local gun store was advertising primers at 1000 primers for $1000.00. Yep, you read it right, a dollar per primer. That was the day I stopped walking in their door, sold all my reloading gear, powder, primers, brass and a couple PB’s I would no longer be feeding. In 45 minutes at FAIR pre-covid raping prices I sold it all for $8,500 and put it all into air guns.
 
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