Hobo Kelly's Blue Book of Brass Values
High-end: Is New LC 18 unprimed, unfired,
$160 per thousand. 1k Starline are $342.
https://www.midsouthshooterssupply....outh-bulk-brass&itemsperpage=30¤tpage=1
High-mid: Is GIBrass.com (AKA Jeff Bartlett, and, Bartlett Reloaders
$75 per thousand (temporarily out of stuck). Looks like he stopped processing primer pockets as an add on service. This is real deal once fired LC military training ammo.
Mid-Mid: Is brass of opportunity and unknown history, desert pickup where someone was shooting LC.
$0.00 per thousand. I did this and got 3-4 loadings of 55 gr FMJ over WC844 practice ammo loadings before retiring this banged up brass. None failed or cracked.
Low-mid: Top-brass fully processed
$142 per thousand but it is MIXED headstamps. I bought a pack of 50 in 7.62; best use will be Annealing learning stock. I will not buy again at any price.
Low-mid: Is Federal. Many reloaders will give it to you for
$0.00 per thousand plus the cost of shipping/postage. I have about 1 thousand, but aM not going to spend any time looking for and counting it, and packaging it.
Bottom-end: Is scrap brass value by the pound, if you have a buyer.
My advice is buy the new LC, or buy from Jeff Bartlett.
Jeff@GIBRASS.com. As to
value of your LC, if it is real, crimped in primers, and unprocessed and not cleaned,
$40 per thousand, but that is if you have a buyer and seller. In other words, buyer and seller determine market price. But there is no standard going rate.
That $40 is around half of the $75 commercial trade standard (Bartlett).