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Save That Brass!

zipperzapzipperzap Member Posts: 25,057
edited October 2006 in General Discussion
Save your Brass! ... even if you don't reload!! I took my non-reloadable brass and brass that had been reloaded too nany times (52 lbs total) to a recycling center ... I got $1.68 a POUND! $88 total for a 10gal bucket full of brass!

... I've already got my eye on another Raven - and for $88 ... I could buy TWO![:D]

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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Zipper you have been around here long enough that we have decided you are experienced enough to break the news to. Friends don't let friends buy Ravens. It is one thing if you are given one, not blame attaches, but real gunners buy Ruger or better (and there is much that is better!). Not Raven, not Jennings and of course, not Glock.
  • 11BravoCrunchie11BravoCrunchie Member Posts: 33,423 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    What about Sig's High Standard? Is that an OK buy?
  • zipperzapzipperzap Member Posts: 25,057
    edited November -1
    quote:He Dog:

    Not Raven, not Jennings and of course, not Glock.

    Well, how 'bout a Roachfire DA, then!??[:D]
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  • rediceredice Member Posts: 1,550 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by zipperzap
    Save your Brass! ... even if you don't reload!! I took my non-reloadable brass and brass that had been reloaded too nany times (52 lbs total) to a recycling center ... I got $1.68 a POUND! $88 total for a 10gal bucket full of brass!

    ... I've already got my eye on another Raven - and for $88 ... I could buy TWO![:D]


    Are you serius? I could go pick up a 10 gallon bucket of brass in less than an hour around here, I knew brass was worth money but didnt know it was that much.

    Heck I picked up about a pound this morning when I was at the range, just stuff I needed, I was picky.
  • plains scoutplains scout Member Posts: 4,563
    edited November -1
    quote:
    Well, how 'bout a Roachfire DA, then!??


    Now that is one ugly weapon!!
  • Fep1990Fep1990 Member Posts: 632 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I need to run up to Capitol Peak area and do some collecting!!! I bet there is at least 100-150lbs of old brass in two of the main shooting spots. It is really sad how people will leave all their trash and used shot-shells,brass laying around. they ruin a very beautiful area by doing this.
  • dlrjjdlrjj Member Posts: 5,529 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Fep1990
    I need to run up to Capitol Peak area and do some collecting!!! I bet there is at least 100-150lbs of old brass in two of the main shooting spots. It is really sad how people will leave all their trash and used shot-shells,brass laying around. they ruin a very beautiful area by doing this.

    And thus is demonstrated the basic nature of demand and supply. If the price goes high enough, a greater supply will be made available than we would otherwise have. It's not greed; it's just the basic nature of acting in our own best self interests.[:)]
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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I always police the brass at the range. Don't remember when I last turned it in, but I don't do it for the money, but rather I consider it such an irritant when others don't pick up. Always take a trash bag with me into the woods and haul out as much as I can when I'm done hunting and fishing. Sadly, I've come out with a full bag far more times than an empty one. [:(]
  • dlrjjdlrjj Member Posts: 5,529 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Iconoclast
    I always police the brass at the range. Don't remember when I last turned it in, but I don't do it for the money, but rather I consider it such an irritant when others don't pick up. Always take a trash bag with me into the woods and haul out as much as I can when I'm done hunting and fishing. Sadly, I've come out with a full bag far more times than an empty one. [:(]



    Yep, my boys and I went to a remote lake in Canada for fishing for almost 15 years. One of the ground rules we used was that we had to bring at least one sack of trash that was not ours out when we left. It doesn't take much effort and makes things better than when you came.[:)]
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  • temblortemblor Member Posts: 2,153 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'd rather have the old brass than the Raven [:D].
  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427
    edited November -1
    I'm gunna have to take some buckets with me to the range. The brass there is about 2" thick along the row of benches.

    I bet I could easily come away with 60lbs from there.
  • mrseatlemrseatle Member Posts: 15,467 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    copper and aluminum are getting good buy back at scrap yards around here. The big scrap yard us one of the biggest TV advertisers. How's that for a sign of the state of the economy. I got 18 bucks for a few bags of cans, shoulda traded for some brass...
  • RugerNinerRugerNiner Member Posts: 12,636 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Will they take 22 caliber brass?
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  • bgjohnbgjohn Member Posts: 2,275 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Brass is brass, including rimfire stuff.
    JM
  • 1911a1-fan1911a1-fan Member Posts: 51,193 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    1.68 a pound for scrap, pick through it and sort it out you can get 5.00 a pound selling it to be used again, your average .45 weighs 8 pounds per 1,000, you can get 40 bucks per 1,000, so if you had all .45's there zip you could have fetched a cool 260 bucks
  • zipperzapzipperzap Member Posts: 25,057
    edited November -1
    Yep - at the indoor range where my son works part time ( http://www.gotammo.com/ )
    they sweep up probably two or more of those 10 gal. plastic bucket fulls a day. Every two or three weeks a truck drops by to take it to the salvagers. Since they have military and LEO training contracts the stuff piles up FAST! [:D]
  • MVPMVP Member Posts: 23,453 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I like to throw lead wheel weights in with my brass before I sell it to the scrap yard. It really drives the value up in a hurry[:o)]
  • anderskandersk Member Posts: 3,627 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm into recycling cans & bottles for plinking money (and my next muzzle loader) but I never thought about brass. GREAT idea ... after the re-loading crowd get the first pick at our club ranges, I do think I'm going to take the rest over to a recycler.
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