Looking for advise on trade/selling used brass. It seems we've acquired, over time, several thousand (at least) rounds of fired brass. The brass is sorted by caliber, but not cleaned. It's all range pick ups, so there is some dirt (from the rainy days on the range.) I have 45ACP, 9mm luger, .380ACP, .40, and some 357Sig.
I don't have the space or time to reload, so we're mostly interested in selling to help fund ammo purchases. (We shoot several hundred rounds each week.) What's the best way to go about it? Do I need to invest in a tumbler and clean the brass first? What are people interested in? Right now the brass is sorted and stored in Costco cashew jars. I realize someday we'll have to actually count it. :-/
Is there any market for such material?
quetions re: lots of used brass
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NewColonial
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quetions re: lots of used brass
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Re: quetions re: lots of used brass
You could clean it but when i buy used brass it doesn't matter to me if it's clean or not. Mid South has a tumbler on sale for I think $29.95, called the smart tumbler. I bought one last year and for the price it works great. How much .380 brass do you have ? I 'll take it off your hands if the price is right.
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NewColonial
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Rick, I've not counted it yet. But I've got two jars full, total weight ~16 lbs. That's about 2400 cases based on 150/lb.
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Re: quetions re: lots of used brass
Nice amount of brass.
Check out www.mastercast.net, they will give you awesome prices with your brass trade-in.
Check out www.mastercast.net, they will give you awesome prices with your brass trade-in.
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Re: quetions re: lots of used brass
not sure where you are located exactly, but you will find that some calibers seem to sell and others are not really hard enough to find that people will buy it, i sell some on vaguntrader.com but honestly you might think about not sorting it or spending to much time with it, brass is 1.80$ per pound right now, so a 5gallon drywall mud bucket is worth almost a hundred bucks... i agree that when i buy reloading brass i dont care if it is tumbled, as i am going to clean it again my way after deprimeing sizing and trimming, so i wouldnt put to much stock in cleaning it. i usually set my brass prices close to what i cna find on gunbroker.com, usually there are ads for all calibers, large and small lots!
Kevin
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