How to go about with brass...

[Epyon]

Hey guys, I don't exactly have a house yet meaning no equipment to reload. However I eventually want to get into shooting outdoors often, meaning I'll be picking up my brass and other people's brass so that we can continue to have wilderness areas for the public to shoot in. What I wanted to know was where is the best place/way to sell the brass back? I don't mind recycling it, but if I can sort out brass and others would be willing to buy packs of it that would be nice to make some quick cash.

[USMC88-93]

First off if its lefthand leave it for me to pick up. I say that in jest but its true. There are both re-loaders and poor individuals that pick up the brass up there (So if you are not reloading consider that) I have even seen people take sifting equipment up there to recover all the .22 brass. Sadly very few pick up the shotgun shells or clean up some of the trash so if you want to assist in that effort think of taking a couple of trash bags up there with you.

If you are picking up brass to save up certain calibers to reload than more power to you.

If you are going to recycle the brass the last price I recycled for was $1.71 per pound. I am unfamiliar with recycling centers in Boulder as I utilize the one on 42 and Wadsworth in Wheat Ridge.

[rondog]

Any scrap metal dealer will buy it. But please don't just sell good, reloadable brass for scrap. You already know there's a market for it, so separate it all out by calibers, clean the dirt off, baggie it up and offer it for sale here. Don't expect to get rich, most cases are only worth a nickel apiece. Even big rifle brass rarely passes 10 cents, and that's mainly oddball stuff like 7mm mag. , 300 win. mag., etc. There's a lot of competition out there.

And most people won't buy nasty, grimy, corroded brass that's been laying there for a long time. I'll pick it up and try to salvage it because I'm a cheap bastard, but most folks won't. Most buyers want "once fired" brass, which is damned hard to identify as such unless YOU opened the box and fired it.

Also, remember that brass with Berdan primers is worthless to reloaders (two tiny flash holes instead of one large one in the center), and so are aluminum and steel cases, and all rimfires. Those are just scrap metal. Same with shotgun shells. Picking it all up to clean up an area is a wonderful thought, though!

[2ndChildhood]

Another scrounger here.
I have a good quantity of stuff I'll be cleaning up and selling eventually.

[Epyon]

Oh I don't plan to do it for the money. Making some small cash is just a side effect of the bigger picture, which is to keep public shooting areas open!! I will definitely sort and clean what I can if I'm collecting brass. And it's good to know that I can post on here about any empty brass that I can collect over time. So far though, I've heard nightmare stories about Left Hand Canyon here and there as well as the place being open or closed due to stupid people piling up more garbage or shooting unsafely. Pawnee looks like a much more promising area, especially when some day we get a nice ol' Barrett .50 cal!!

Before I forget, I'm a bit surprised shotgun shells are not collected, I'd imagine they can still be reloaded as well.

[rondog]

I'm a bit surprised shotgun shells are not collected, I'd imagine they can still be reloaded as well.

Some can be, but most don't reload well. Been a lot of years since I did any though, they may be different now.