Value of prepped brass?

[drop_point]

I have several thousand rounds of .223/5.56 NATO brass that I picked up from a training range.

I thought I'd eventually use it, but I've got a couple five gallon buckets and tens of thousands of rounds loaded. The brass was wet-tumbled before prepped. The brass has been swaged, FL sized w/o expander ball, expanded with a mandrel, trimmed, chamferred, and deburred and then tumbled again to remove lube before storage. It is mixed headstamp.

What is this stuff worth if I sell it? I need to make room and can't see myself using it anytime soon.

 

[Kracken McGraw]

Plus or minus thirteen cents.

 

[ebb]

I wouldn't get rid of it for any reason. Its all but loaded, and it doesn't eat or need medical care, it's an asset you don't need now doesn't mean you won't in the future.

 

[drop_point]

If it weren't for the fact that I'm going to be ripping apart the reloading room soon, and I'm running out of places to put stuff. I can always go back out there and pick up all I want from where the LE departments practice.

 

[CJ6]

All the time spent on preparing the brass just doesn't add up to money (which sucks) but that's what it is. I agree with Kracken 13 cents +or-.
Just cleaning it would probably get you 10 cents a piece.

 

[wv.citybilly]

At a glance, recycled brass is $1.75lb to $2.10lb in your state.

 

[FloridaAKM]

I had a bunch of brass from my range where people would come to shoot & leave me the brass. I prepped it to the point of being primed & ready to load & then it was stored. Fast forward a few years & I got several buckets of brass from a builder who used the ammo to test new builds. Then, I bought more used brass in different calibers to load.

After retirement, all the brass was processed to the point of being primed ready to load. Since I had all the primers, powder & bullets needed to complete the project, no more $$$ was needed to invest, just time.

In the past year, I have loaded over 15 k rounds of ammo with all that processed brass & now it is stored in US ammo cans with desiccant to keep. Selling processed brass is a waste of your time, unless you just tumble it & sell it as once fired.

Good luck with what ever you actually do with the processed brass.

 

[drop_point]

Thanks, I figured I may turn it into components that I'll actually use. Work wasn't all that bad. Maybe I should load it and have some fun blasting sessions with the kids in a few years. Its moved with me already, may as well move it again.

 

[CJ6]

You're not alone.

 

[D-4297]

As the saying goes : Rather have it and not need it , Than need it , and not have it !

 

[lurch1]

Thanks, I figured I may turn it into components that I'll actually use. Work wasn't all that bad. Maybe I should load it and have some fun blasting sessions with the kids in a few years. Its moved with me already, may as well move it again.

I'll pay shipping if you have to just get rid of it...m

 

[Mcrider55]

With skyrocketing primer and powder prices already hurting reloading and now loaded ammo sales, the value continues to slide. I've seen multiple offers of 1000/$100 ignored by customers. If you already have 10+ rounds loaded, you're pretty much set for any SHTF scenarios.

 

[Coyotefurharvester]

Everybody should have bartering materials, 22LR,9mm,223,12ga.

 

[drop_point]

With skyrocketing primer and powder prices already hurting reloading and now loaded ammo sales, the value continues to slide. I've seen multiple offers of 1000/$100 ignored by customers. If you already have 10+ rounds loaded, you're pretty much set for any SHTF scenarios.

Probably more like 25k+ in that chambering. That's why I wanted to get rid of this stuff.

 

[Jeff Porter]

Several places sell fully processed once fired brass. The place I use MS brass processing in Clinton IN is $100/1000. ( 10 cents each for you in Rio Linda)