Money for nuthin..........

[bobm]

I just returned home from the scrap yard with $268.85 in cash for 181 lbs. of mixed brass. All I had to do was pick it up. Free money. I have done this several times in the past couple of years. We have many members at our club that do not reload and leave mass piles of brass on the ground. I always keep the cases I load for and fill the buckets with the rest. It always amazes me to see a carpet of brass on the ground. That cash will be spent on needed reloading components. I will have that much again by the end of the year. Thanks members for helping to support my hobby.

 

[Rsadams]

There's money in it thats for sure.. I only pick up what I use and leave the rest for others to reload.. That being said I almost have a 5 gal. bucket full of junkers... It adds up over time...

 

[BenPerfected]

Dire Straights 1985....and the Chick's for free.

 

[dmoran]

^^^^^^^^^

 

[1lnbrdg]

Dang local shooters here don't leave nuttin!

 

[Eddie Harren]

Dang local shooters here don't leave nuttin!

At our club we pick it up and sell it for scrap and the club gets the money.

 

[Rsadams]

Down here some places won't allow you to pick it up... They sell it as once fired range brass and keep the money.. I have junk pistol brass in a bag just for shooting at those places.. But I honestly don't go there becouse of that reason.. Its mine I paid for it and I will take my brass if I want it , period...

 

[Paul Seaman]

At our club we pick it up and sell it for scrap and the club gets the money.

Some clubs have rules about that if it's yours it's yours but if it's not it's ours and if they see you hauling out cases that don't match what your shooting they fine you a day of cleanup around the range, one club I know rolled a lot of membership because the new board put rules like this in place!

 

[people]

I love range brass. 270 brass turns into 30-06 so nice. my m1 doesn't know the difference.

 

[SDWhirlwind]

Here the local scrap buyer says his buyer won't take it unless it is all deprimed on account of possible live rounds etc. Kind of a pain but I knock the primers out of my worn out stuff and throw it in a box. Been a few years since I sold but have maybe 20#+ now. I pick up what is left when I go to local range as few reload here, especially 9mm and 40. I usually try and find someone that can use what is still good and give it away.

Curious as to what scrap is right now in other places??? Think my cheapy local guy is only paying about .30#?

 

[bobm]

I got $1.48 lb. today. It was $1.41 last Feb. with two buckets full. I once got $ 1.85 lb. when the Chinese were hoarding scrap metals. It dove below a dollar only four years ago. They call it yellow brass and pay current market scrap prices for it. They sweep it with a magnet and ask if any live stuff before payout.

Winter pick up is the worst as it's sometimes frozen to the soil. I carry a little wood block to knock 'em loose.

If I don't pick it up someone else will. Or it gets pressed into the dirt bay floors with tire and foot traffic. Hey, I am on a fixed income. Every penny counts!

 

[Dgd6mm]

I walked over at least $500.00 worth yesterday at the range. I picked up some .243 Winchester and 6.5 Creedmoor brass.

 

[bobm]

A lot of the stuff I have picked up over the years was top shelf ammo. Lapua, RWS, Nosler, Barnes, to name a few. Last week I got 20 PPU .338 Lapua just laying under a bench in the dirt. Lots of Hornady and Lapua 6.5 Creedmoor, too. The .223 and 9mm cases are the most common. I got about 30 Remington .300 Savage cases and 40 Nosler .270. These are keepers. Then there is tons of Berdan import military stuff. Some of the shooters actually throw it in the trash cans instead of leaving it where it fell.

Keep it coming!

 

[Dgd6mm]

I could sweep up a 5 gallon bucket once a week. I've known for a while now that it is bringing good money for scrap. I may have to do it.

 

[Downhill]

A guy at our club picked up enough brass to purchase a Dillon 1050! I box mine that are beyond reloading and sell when full.

 

[bobm]

The $186.00 I got for the Feb. sell was spent on four pair of my favorite blue jeans, lunch for two at a Chinese restaurant next to the scrap yard and a big hanging plant basket for my wife. Still had a few dollars left over. And the plant is still alive.

 

[spclark]

Where I used to live, scrap dealers refused to accept fired brass ammo cases the last two, three years I lived there, deprimed or not. Cited rules imposed by outfits they sold their brass to owing to too many live rounds they'd find when they fed 'em into the furnace.

Granted this was near Chicago, just outside Cook County... so maybe there was something to it all.

Been where I am now for 3 years, not yet visited local scrap dealer with what I've been binning of my too-old-to-reload personal stuff.

95%'s been decapped; I may sort thru it all to cull (then decap) those that aren't, just so I don't encounter friction when I make that introductory visit sometime later this year.

 

[bobm]

Whoa!! second page already? This thread ain't done yet.

Whilst at the scrap yard yesterday the manager gave me these 304 SS scale weights a local lab dropped off. There were dozens of them scrapped, all like new. The big one is 11.0000 lbs. Might come in handy some day when certifying whole bench rest rifles or something.

 

[TheOtherZilla]

I pick at our range, just what I use mostly 556. There is a a ton of steel cases layin around though.

 

[grovey]

Well done. There's none to pick up at my range except for 20 or 30 cases now and then in the bucket. I guess the trade off is when I go I have the place to myself 75% of the time. There's also no one there spraying AR'S when I'm doing load development.