how much is once fired brass worth

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I have a 5 gallon bucket of once fired brass in various calibers, but it is mostly 9mm and .45 ACP...it weighs about 70 lbs and I was wondering if anyone knows what a fair price to sell it for would be? Thx.
 
Most 9mm brass goes for .015-.025 cents each depending on who's selling.

.45acp I don't know as I don't reload for it so I don't look at prices of it.


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About 70$'s or so. Scrap brass sells for about $1.1-1.25 in my area. Unless what you have can be guaranteed to be "once-fired" and of the same caliber, it'll be hard to get more than that. 9mm brass in particular is so common that many guys at my range don't even bother to pick it up anymore.
 
You are going to have to sort it by caliber to generate any interest at all from reloaders. And 9 mm brass is going to go pretty cheap. My cousin gave me a bucket full, basically because he valued the storage space more than the brass. I was willing to clean and inspect free brass, but I'm frankly not going to pay for brass that needs to be sorted, cleaned, and inspected.
 
The nine is of value mostly to the guys who can't recover their own brass or acquire it otherwise. Most reloader don't need it.

45 costs a fortune to buy factory, many people reload it, and putting that up for sale will find a buyer. I don't know what your other rounds would do.

I suggest that whatever you do, clean, tumble, sort, and dump anything that will offend a potential buyer.

This isn't the eighties, when you could have sold that bucket for hundreds of dollars, or ten years ago, when the price of salvage brass was four bucks a pound. Once fired brass isn't as valuable as it used to be.
 
Btw, at the public range down in the boonies, there is a scrounger who goes every day and hangs out all day, picking the stuff up. All day, every day, shooting the breeze with anyone who will listen, never shooting, just sorting through the leaving. H e doesn't even waste his time with nine or forty, even the price of salvage isn't enough to make him bend over.

At my range, some days you could take a pushbroom and gather a ten pound bag in less than an hour. I know plenty of people who wouldn't waste the time it would take to sweep it up and drive it to the recycler.
 
"...Scrap brass sells for about $1.10-1.25 in my area..." Maybe for brass without any primers. Don't think the scrap guys want brass with the primers still in 'em. Don't really think hauling brass to a scrap yard is worth the gas to get there myself.
Nobody will pay much for a 70 pound bucket of mixed stuff for reloading. Guys here and elsewhere complain about how tedious cleaning cases is for them. Give 'em a stroke if they had to sort it too. snicker.
"...people who wouldn't waste the time..." Have sign that reads, "Your momma doesn't work here. Clean up your own mess."
 
There is actually a sign that says "collect your trash and used brass."

These people won't even take down their own targets. And shotgun shells are left where they fall. Someone comes in every once in a while to scavenge brass, but he leaves all of the aluminum and steel.

This is a privately owned range. I like the guy and his family. Every time I go, without fail, I pull targets, collect hulls an trash, do anything I can to help out. No, I don't clean the privy. Fifteen minutes allows home more time to work on that beautiful new roof he's putting up over the benches.

Btw, when I collect my own brass, I get the alum I num, to. It's litter. It's a pain in the rear, and I have a bucket full of it that's maybe worth the price of a happy meal.
 
Where it will h ave the most value might be towns where rcommercialindoor ranges are the norm. When there are a number of lanes shooting, anything that go's over that line is lost. Some places don't even allow you to collect it at all, and forbid reloads, so every night they sweep up barrels of once fired brass. The competition's that we used to have around here wouldn't allow the shooters to gather anything but what was right at their feet. With people waiting their turn, nobody was allowed to waste time. There are schedules to be maintained.
 
I was out last weekend and picked up (not purchased) 300 rounds of once fired 9mm, 200 rounds of 40, and 275 rounds of 223, and some 45 as well. Having a bucket of brass is a good thing only IF you're willing to do the work. I have the 5 cents rule of thumb I wouldn't spend more than a nickel for any piece of common pistol brass and rarely up to 7 cents for rifle like 223 or 7.62x39. Time is on my side I'll get what I need soon enough from the ground. The only brass I actually expect to buy with any regularity is 10mm and 22 hornet I've been unable to keep stock levels up without buying some brass every now and again.
 
$0.85 / lb is going price for salvaged brass in my area.....and they don't care if it has spent primers in it.....

Once fired or 10 times fired on 9mm or .45acp ...is irrelevant to most reloaders....most of us sweep up spent brass at local ranges free....especially in those calibers...and while I keep a couple of 8 gal storage tubs of each on hand...at some point, I just quit picking up 9mm and .45 acp....because even though I shoot about 2,500 rds of 9mm a month...and probably 150 rds of .45acp..... it's everywhere for free....
 
How many of you guys remember when people actually fought over brass? I've always been a courteous guy, I collect another's brass along with my ow if I'm on the ground. I've had a few people in the p as t jump down my throat because I was helping them out.

It's not the same as it was thirty years ago. People just can't understand that the times we live in are really rather prosperous.
 
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