The Chinese have a lot to do with the prices of all commodities. They have enough of our money to buy large quantities at the bottom of the price cycles. If and when it gets back to the 1.75-2.00 range is a tough call.
idk why. we have two scrap dealers in town, they actually bid against each other for the brass and lead from our police range. before I started dumping the used primers I asked the one closer to my house about it. He said that all brass has primers in it so it wouldn't matter, and also that he didn't care about a live primer or round in the mix, they take that into account. Brass is sorted as brass shells and not mixed with other brass scrap. He said they wholesaler it goes to is required to run it through a cooker anyway.
Having a home foundry for years, I melt down my unusable shell casings and primers and pour into the Lyman ingot mold(cast iron one) and use them to sand cast various items- hammers, hammer heads, punches, 105MM howzer ashtrays etc. The live primers do not harm my crusible or other equiptment.
The likely reason for the difference from your dealers to the ones around here is based on where the material goes to be recycled and how they are equipped. Some mills are very picky about the quality and type of material that they will process. Scrapyards that ship direct to mills have to have contracts with specific terms in them, any violations could result in the material being rejected. Worse yet if something slipped through and someone was injured the shipper can be held responsible. I am in north east ohio and have found that many yards do not want any cartridge brass because of the possibility of a live round or primer
I found ten of these on the ground this morning. The other ten must be for the upcoming T-rex season. He's gonna need a bigger gun.
How much for all those 45acp I see?Well guys, yesterday was too windy for my kind of rifle shooting. 15-25 SW winds all day long and 88 F. But....not too bad for more brass mining. Our club recently held an action pistol match and all kinds of brass was left behind. I brought a rake, flat shovel and a home made sifter box collect all this. The sifter box is 1/4" hardware cloth and rids the dirt and sand from the mix.
Included and brought home for further "refining" was steel and aluminum cases. Also was about 100 loaded rounds, too. Shot shell wads, chunks of lead bullets, broken clay fragments and steel nuts and washers. Man, did I get dusty from this three hours of mining.
My wife said she will help me pick out the brass for her usual 50% cut. OK with me. She has next years flower seeds ready to order. I have two buckets full in the garage and this haul will go towards more air gun pellets or another 8 lb. can of N140.
Was it worth it for $1.45 a pound? Hey, it's money for nuthin.........
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How about a $1.45 per pound.
Buck forty five a pound times ninety eight is 142.10. That is an outstanding haul!
