What to do with bad brass/spent primers?

[lyric911]

Relatively new reloader, but I'm getting quite a pile of spent primers and a handful of unusable brass. Is there anything I can do with these besides pitch them? Can they be recycled or anything?

 

[XtremeVel]

I throw them in coffee cans and when I get a few full, I give them to a friend that collects aluminum cans. I don't know how much he gets for them as scrap, but he always seems to be happy to take it.

 

[Cat-Herder]

when you find out, let me know, i've got a lot of it!

 

[shibumiseeker]

$1.20-$1.40/lb at most scrap yards. Keep collecting until you have a 5 gallon pail full, usually about $30-40 per pail.

 

[WLW]

Or in my case the club I belong to has a brass receptacle and mine go there. The club gets the proceeds for recycling. Spent primers go in the trash.

 

[lyric911]

$1.20-$1.40/lb at most scrap yards. Keep collecting until you have a 5 gallon pail full, usually about $30-40 per pail.

Spent primers too? Or just the bad casings?

 

[Six Shooter Steve]

Or in my case the club I belong to has a brass receptacle and mine go there. The club gets the proceeds for recycling. Spent primers go in the trash.

Spent primers are made of brass too they pay for them at the scrap places just the same as brass

 

[lyric911]

Awesome info everyone, thanks.

 

[HICKMAN]

good info

 

[Coach]

I took in about one third of a five gallon bucket of brass last week of spent primers and got $30 out of it. I had another batch of brass and the total was $71 bucks for trash. I was thrilled.

 

[OneBadV8]

Really? geez... And I've been throwing mine away. Learn something new everyday.

 

[perminator]

wow never realized spent primers were worth anything i always save my scrap brass but never knew about the primers

 

[jimbo-indy]

Thanks for the info. I've been pitching mine. Now, I'll start saving for recycling. You can accumulate a lot of spent primers trap shootng.

 

[03A3]

I even save all the .22 R.F. brass that I can. I set abox on the bench and eject the empties out of revolvers into it.
I scrounge brass everywhere I go. If it's not usable or a caliber I don't have it goes in the scrap box

 

[gunselman]

Anyone know what to do with damaged brass tha thas been primed? I bought a bunch of loose 223 ammo and some of it is damaged to the point i don't want to run it in my gun. thoughts?

 

[shibumiseeker]

Anyone know what to do with damaged brass tha thas been primed? I bought a bunch of loose 223 ammo and some of it is damaged to the point i don't want to run it in my gun. thoughts?

Stick the brass in the gun to set off the primer, or set them standing up on a hotplate outside until the primer detonates, then throw them in the scrap bucket. Neither water nor oil will deactivate the primers, though lots of folks still believe this.

 

[sloughfoot]

I think a 5 gallon bucket will hold 40 lbs of brass. Last time I took the bucket to the recycler, I got like $80 for it.

They don't care if the primers are live or not.

 

[GLV]

Thanks
I have 70 or 80 lbs, now I need to find a place near Logansport to sell it.

 

[Maddawg]

depending on the primer itseld...but brass and brass primers go in the same bin....scrap yard here pays 2.50 a pound for brass....helps make some extra money for bullets and powder and primers LOL

 

[SKSnut]

one 5 gallon bucket will get you around 100$ at the scrap metal yard. Dad even picks up .22's. ez money