Best way to get rid of a lot of reloading supplies...

[Old Navy]

I would see if you have a local classifieds, etc and post it on there.

We have two here in Utah and I buy and sell regularly on both. No shipping. Usually meet someone half way between homes. Works good.

 

[K22]

What would I do?

I would contact a local gun shop and see if they have any interest in taking it all. I wouldn't want to spend the time, effort, and hassle dealing with unknown personalities trying to dispose of this stuff. But that is just me.

Since I am up there in years, I have a pre-arranged agreement with my smith that upon my demise, he will take everything since no one in my current living immediate family is interested in the shooting sports. My daughter has been given a crash course in how to determine the approximate potential value.

 

[hogpatrol]

I already have in house shipping, I own an auto parts business so shipping will not be a problem. I am located just outside of Seattle. You think that individually bagging everything and counting will only yield another $500? I will reach out to a few reloaders in the area and see what they have to say, thank you.

I weigh a hundred and then sell by that amount and throw in extras. Saves A LOT of time.

 

[TTE]

Advertise a 10 lb. box of brass ... here or GB

 

[JSH]

You mention machine gun links. If that brass was fired in a machine gun, that could be a deal breaker for many.
I was gifted a bunch of brass some years back. Lots of issues, only to find out it came from a full auto rig. Never again for me.

 

[ChrisNZ]

What you describe sounds very familiar. My good gunsmith buddy died suddenly and left a mountain of "stuff" including reloading components and live ammunition. His widow found herself in a difficult financial situation so I endeavoured to help her out. It proved to be way more time-intensive than I expected. Seems there are plenty of tire kickers and time wasters out there.

Good luck on your sales.

 

[WyleWD]

You mention machine gun links. If that brass was fired in a machine gun, that could be a deal breaker for many.
I was gifted a bunch of brass some years back. Lots of issues, only to find out it came from a full auto rig. Never again for me.

A very good friend of mine passed away and I was awarded the task of distributing and selling his firearms and reloading room contents. The firearms were relatively easy to sell.

There was (conservatively) 7500+ rounds of various calibers that he'd reloaded, and buckets upon buckets of mixed brass, some primed, some not. A local police department was more than happy to come and get all of it and dispose of it. It took them several trips, but hey I sure slept a lot better. JME, andk to the OP, good luck with your project. There can be a lot more liability than one wants to shoulder involved. Be careful. WD

 

[NorCalMikie]

Seems there are plenty of tire kickers and time wasters out there.

and somebody wanting something for NOTHING!!
Sold the guns and gave away a LOT of brass and ammo.
I held the guns till I got the $$$ that "I" wanted and she needed.
Put a smile on the widows face.

 

[Frankm]

Knowing what you ve got in inventory to sell is important.

Pricing will determine how quickly or slow it takes and it s your time/decision. I would remember that peoples coin is starting to tighten… you ask for absolute top dollar you ll wait longer to be done with project.

Knowing more specifically the condition of your brass will matter. I won’t buy anything that’s more than once fired unless it’s a real low price. When someone says twice fired or 3 times “how do you really know”…. Anymore everyone has polishers so shiny brass actually scares me. Remember unless you fired the brass that pressures loaded too can be more important than number of firings. I ve seen primer pockets ruined in one overpressure, hot load.

Powder , primers, bullets and dies, etc much easier. Pretty much what you see is what you get; even more so if unopened stuff.

Good Luck on your project! Both exciting and tiring ….

 

[Shooter13]

Well, you mentioned primers, I would start there FTF sales and should be able to help her sell those easily then move on to the other stuff!

 

[Snozzberries]

I'm in the Seattle area. I could use some primers. Got any varget too?

Post on the walls at the Kenmore range. And Renton, and Snoqualmie, and Machias....

Post on the waguns website, since it's full of locals. Go to one of the swap meets at Kenmore.

I wouldn't worry about counting and boxing stuff. Somebody might say "I'll take all your 308 brass", and you just wasted days counting it.

Weigh 10, then weigh them all. Guess at the quantity based upon math.

Tell me more about these presses, I'm using a single stage.

 

[brassguy]

brassguy,

Brass and other prices fall into three categories; so low you will buy it now, low enough to buy it if you need it, and expensive. You will probably want to sell powders and primers locally to avoid HazMat shipping. Otherwise, big lots are your friend when it comes to shipping.

Shipping is another problem. USPS is probably the best option for heavy load stuff like bullets, 75lb. in a large box. UPS and FedEx have become problematic, they have minimums for commercial accounts to get the best prices and they don't care how long you've had accounts with them. Don't know about pirateship, I quit using printers when printing hit a buck a page when you account for dried up cartridges.

Lastly, while you may have just joined this forum, if you go back through listing at the bulletin, you'll find tons of good info. It would be worth your becoming a Gold member with the amounts you will be moving. Contributing to the site is a good way to establish a good reputation. Lots of sales here are done via cross shipping.

HTH,
DocBII

I have a commercial shipping account and lots of boxes, so that will not be an issue.

 

[brassguy]

Instead of counting it, I’d probably approximate it by weighing it or by box volume

Id fill up a medium priority flat rate box… then count how many cases were in it and put that approximate number when you sell, I’d be sure that at least that many cases fit…. So I’d probably advertise it as slightly less than you actually counted

We have been sorting by head stamp and bagging it by the 100. Shipping will not be an issue since I already have a commercial shipping account.

 

[brassguy]

I didn’t say it would yield that, I was using it as an example only. I personally would not spend weeks chasing a few dollars more if some one offered 50% or 60% of a very experienced person’s estimate on site to walk away, I would probably take it. Do you want to start a business or get rid of it? If you start peddling it by lots, the hard to sell will be left behind.

The idea of starting a new business's crossed my mind, but I already have 2 that need my attention another one would be to much at the moment.

I would take 50% of the whole lots value, problem being... its a lot.

This is why I am trying to get a count on everything. With what we have counted so far, we are at 130k brass and that's only around 1/2 of everything. Just brass at $.10 a piece average we are sitting on $20k. I have even more in projectiles. Hell, I have a 40lb bucket, full of tracer rounds in different calibers.

I figured there is $50k in individually packaged, sorted and sold reloading supplies at wholesale prices (move it fast). That wouldn't include all the reloading equipment, and actual bullets that I cannot sell

I have started a list, and have 3 employees to sort and package all of it. I guess I get a total count on everything sorted by head stamp and packaged in 100 round lots and go from there.

 

[brassguy]

I'm in the Seattle area. I could use some primers. Got any varget too?

Post on the walls at the Kenmore range. And Renton, and Snoqualmie, and Machias....

Post on the waguns website, since it's full of locals. Go to one of the swap meets at Kenmore.

I wouldn't worry about counting and boxing stuff. Somebody might say "I'll take all your 308 brass", and you just wasted days counting it.

Weigh 10, then weigh them all. Guess at the quantity based upon math.

Tell me more about these presses, I'm using a single stage.

That exactly what we are doing. Sort by head stamp, weight 100 pieces then bag in 100 count bag with a label.

The presses are the RCB rotary with index disk.

 

[Kittitas George]

What you will find is there are a lot of lookers and lots of "gota be a hell of a deal" (other wise known as cheap) people out there. I've had some very good experiences selling on this site and too many people that must just be lonely and needing some contact. I had the same situation with a friends treasure, much of it was donated to the Renton Gun Clubs kids program.

 

[ronsatspokane]

If you can't get rid of most of it locally (and Seattle holds a lot of possibilities just at the Kenmore range) then talk to the guy who owns Three Forks reloading store in Cle Elum.

 

[brassguy]

You mention machine gun links. If that brass was fired in a machine gun, that could be a deal breaker for many.
I was gifted a bunch of brass some years back. Lots of issues, only to find out it came from a full auto rig. Never again for me.

No, these links were from a gun range with no brass collected from said gun range.

One of the buckets is all brand new links, which I have no idea how he came across those. Liberated maybe?

All of the brass is being sorted by head stamp now, and bagged. This seems to make it easier to sell if its sorted by head stamp.

 

[brassguy]

What you will find is there are a lot of lookers and lots of "gota be a hell of a deal" (other wise known as cheap) people out there. I've had some very good experiences selling on this site and too many people that must just be lonely and needing some contact. I had the same situation with a friends treasure, much of it was donated to the Renton Gun Clubs kids program.

That is why I created an account on gun broker, this eliminates the need for me to "coddle" people and convince them to buy the stuff. You can either buy it, or move onto the next guy who has an add up.

 

[brassguy]

Knowing what you ve got in inventory to sell is important.

Pricing will determine how quickly or slow it takes and it s your time/decision. I would remember that peoples coin is starting to tighten… you ask for absolute top dollar you ll wait longer to be done with project.

Knowing more specifically the condition of your brass will matter. I won’t buy anything that’s more than once fired unless it’s a real low price. When someone says twice fired or 3 times “how do you really know”…. Anymore everyone has polishers so shiny brass actually scares me. Remember unless you fired the brass that pressures loaded too can be more important than number of firings. I ve seen primer pockets ruined in one overpressure, hot load.

Powder , primers, bullets and dies, etc much easier. Pretty much what you see is what you get; even more so if unopened stuff.

Good Luck on your project! Both exciting and tiring ….

From what I have seen, 95% of everything we have come across has been labeled as "once fired". As I stated earlier, 90% of this came from LE shooting ranges I did polish some of the stuff because it was all listed as once fired, but now that I see people getting concerned about polished brass I will no longer polish anything and start sorting it via un-polished matching head stamps. I have noticed a trend where S&B and Hornady brass seems to get top dollar. People have their favorite brass so getting it sorted by head stamp seems to be the most profitable way to do this.