Recycling old ammo brass...can I, should I?

[Eddo Rogue]

I used to shoot a lot, and always picked up my brass. Now its a retired hobby and the coffee cans are clutter and taking up space.

Can I recycle my brass? by which I mean without depriming it?

Or should I take the time to deprime it?

Or would I better off selling it in classifieds? Most if it can be reloaded if anyone does that anymore...

Wondering what to do with all my brass casings....They aren't garbage, but I have no use for em.

 

[RobbieD]

I would think that it should be easy enough to sell them to somebody for reloading. Probably for not enough to retire on, but worth the hassle.

 

[superj]

lots of people reload here so i would imagine you could sell it to someone.

kids walk around and pick it up at the end of hte day at the local range so someone wants it here.

 

[sgtsandman]

A reloader that works with that caliber or calibers would be happy to buy them. They would know how to decap and process them. Brass is one of the more expensive parts of reloading and are always looking for a deal.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

What calibers you have of brass? Lol

 

[Eddo Rogue]

What calibers you have of brass? Lol

Pretty common stuff... 223, 9mm, .38. .45, maybe some .308

 

[Eddo Rogue]

Some of it dont look so good....I'll probably have to sit down and sort out the good stuff, recycle the rest. Time flies, and ravages.

 

[MISWFL]

Once fired sorted undamaged ( not cracked, not flattened, no fluting marks, etc ) boxer primed brass is worth far more to reloaders than as scrap brass. Harvested lead is valuable for black powder guys.

 

[Eddo Rogue]

Once fired sorted undamaged ( not cracked, not flattened, no fluting marks, etc ) boxer primed brass is worth far more to reloaders than as scrap brass. Harvested lead is valuable for black powder guys.

I don't have any lead but good to know.
Yea that's pretty much what I'm gonna sort through for.

 

[JoshT]

If you were going to give it to a recycler you weren't planning to make much if anything off of it anyway. Don't bother with sorting and inspecting. List it as assorted used brass as is and take what you can get. Might not bring as much as cleaned deprimed and sorted, but still more than you were going to get.

If you were in CA instead of GA I'd buy it from you. We have/shoot all of those calibers, and reloading is as much a hobby for dad as the shooting is. Figuring out shipping for all of that is too much trouble and probably wouldn't be worth it going all the way across country.

 

[PetroleumJunkie412]

I used to shoot a lot, and always picked up my brass. Now its a retired hobby and the coffee cans are clutter and taking up space.

Can I recycle my brass? by which I mean without depriming it?

Or should I take the time to deprime it?

Or would I better off selling it in classifieds? Most if it can be reloaded if anyone does that anymore...

Wondering what to do with all my brass casings....They aren't garbage, but I have no use for em.

Sell it. Worth way more vs scrap

 

[Eddo Rogue]

If you were going to give it to a recycler you weren't planning to make much if anything off of it anyway. Don't bother with sorting and inspecting. List it as assorted used brass as is and take what you can get. Might not bring as much as cleaned deprimed and sorted, but still more than you were going to get.

If you were in CA instead of GA I'd buy it from you. We have/shoot all of those calibers, and reloading is as much a hobby for dad as the shooting is. Figuring out shipping for all of that is too much trouble and probably wouldn't be worth it going all the way across country.

Maybe I can ship...usps flat rate ain't much...

Probably will end up selling all me fancy primer expanders/ resizers too. I'm over fixing up military brass.

 

[JoshT]

I'd try to sell it locally first. With all the ammo laws that CA is trying to put into place, I'm sure you've got some people that would pay a nice price for it.

USPS flat rate isn't that much, but I'm not sure how they would handle the spent casings with primers still in them.

 

[Eddo Rogue]

I'd try to sell it locally first. With all the ammo laws that CA is trying to put into place, I'm sure you've got some people that would pay a nice price for it.

USPS flat rate isn't that much, but I'm not sure how they would handle the spent casings with primers still in them.

Even spent primers?

 

[JoshT]

I don't know what methods they use to determine if what someone is shipping might violate policies. I don't think they will ship live primers, powders, or other Hazmat items (unless shipper is properly licensed) and I'm sure they have some way to detect that stuff without opening the package. Don't know how those detection methods may react to spent primers or GSR.