Value of 9MM Brass

kbm6893 · Dec 6, 2020

I have a huge pail (35 pound cat litter bucket) of 9MM brass that has never been reloaded. It’s all been resized and expanded, plus wet tumbled. I honestly don’t know how many but it’s gotta be well over 5000 pieces. What’s the going rate for 9MM brass?

Ivan the Butcher · Dec 6, 2020

Most reloaders simply pick up the brass they need for reloading off the range floor.

People who load in those large quantities won't add any value for the time you already put in. It might sell at a gun show for 4 or 5 cents each. I have a bag of 1000 no-one even looks at!!

Ivan

Pisgah · Dec 6, 2020

I really don' t know what the going rate for de-primed, re-sized, washed, once-fired brass would be when sold for re-use. The national average scrap value of brass cases was $1.18 per pound as of Friday and has been as high as $2 in the past year.

AlHunt · Dec 6, 2020

kbm6893 said:
I have a huge pail (35 pound cat litter bucket) of 9MM brass that has never been reloaded. It’s all been resized and expanded, plus wet tumbled. I honestly don’t know how many but it’s gotta be well over 5000 pieces. What’s the going rate for 9MM brass?

I buy 9mm range brass a couple times a year. Shopping around can land it at $30 - $40 per thousand. It can and does sell for more sometimes, but not to me. I think the last batch I bought was 2500 and it was $65 or $70 to my door.

Ole Joe Clark · Dec 6, 2020

I have several thousand, but have never bought any. I used to pick it up at the range, but I only pick up my own now.

Have a blessed day,

Leon

truckerdave397 · Dec 6, 2020

Just so you know there are 115 pieces of 9mm brass in a pound. The pail is probably 2 pounds.

otis24 · Dec 6, 2020

You would think that in this environment of severe ammo shortages that it would be worth a lot! Problem being, however, is that powder, primers and other reloading components are also in short supply the!

cracker57 · Dec 6, 2020

AlHunt said:
I buy 9mm range brass a couple times a year. Shopping around can land it at $30 - $40 per thousand. It can and does sell for more sometimes, but not to me. I think the last batch I bought was 2500 and it was $65 or $70 to my door.

I hope you were happy with the brass I sold you, Alhunt.
2500 pieces will fit in a if it fits it ships medium priority box, they ship for around 17 bucks.

ken158 · Dec 6, 2020

$2 a pound at the scrap yard...

cracker57 · Dec 6, 2020

3 to 4 cents/piece, with shipping included.

yeti · Dec 6, 2020

AlHunt & Cracker are on point. For processed brass going to say $35-40/1000 delivered, is fair.
~118 cases per pound and 1000 cases should weigh out to ~8.5 lbs.

Pricing may be up a touch at the moment though.

AlHunt · Dec 6, 2020

cracker57 said:
I hope you were happy with the brass I sold you, Alhunt.
2500 pieces will fit in a if it fits it ships medium priority box, they ship for around 17 bucks.

Ha! I couldn't remember where or who that batch came from. Yep, it's exactly what I expected. About 1/2 is loaded and Zombie-Ready and the rest is in process.

I'm always on the lookout for a deal. A friend of mine (who I recently upgraded to "great friend") traded me into quite a few small pistol primers so I'll be killing the rest of that box off as time permits.

ETA: Now I remember, that was the 5K you split into 2. That's what it was. I should have done the whole 5K. Who knew the zombie apocalypse was right around the corner ...

Geno44 · Dec 6, 2020

With shipping as high as it is, including shipping at 3-4 cents per case, doesn't leave a lot for "profit". I sent a 10 pound package of a defective product from Illinois to California UPS and it cost me $24. The USPS boxes are probably the cheapest way to ship brass. There has been so much 9mm brass generated over the last 25 years that it is one the least valuable cases. Until all the recent unrest you could buy new loaded 9mm for $8-$10 a box so reloading didn't make a lot of sense to many folks. The economics change some when we are talking about rarer brass like .45 Colt, .357 magnum or 10mm. I sold some once fired 10mm brass a few years ago for 10 cents each plus shipping and could have sold a lot more. It may be up some now from that price.

Drm50 · Dec 6, 2020

9mm & 223/5.56 brass as well as other popular para military brass is hard to sell. The new shooters are not reloaders and thousands of cases are swept up at ranges. There are always people willing to give away common brass.

mmb617 · Dec 6, 2020

Drm50 said:
9mm & 223/5.56 brass as well as other popular para military brass is hard to sell. The new shooters are not reloaders and thousands of cases are swept up at ranges.

I almost always come home from the range with more 9mm and .223 cases than the number of rounds I shoot. I use a tarp to catch all mine then pick up a lot that's just left lying on the ground by other shooters.

Even now with the ammo shortage there's usually a fair amount of 9mm brass on the ground.

Drm50 · Dec 6, 2020

I saw on another forum a guy selling 1lb ingots of copper for $10. If you look on You Tube there are many videos of guys smelting copper, brass, aluminum in small home made furnaces. I can see this as educational project but they are into it. Stacking up ingots like they are gold. The point is, not counting any value on your labor, how much did it cost to smelt that pound of metal. I’m saying more than scrap value of the metal. A pound of copper is less than $3 today. When you look at cleaning, depriming and sizing common cartridge brass you would be better off just to offer it bulk the way it is. Value? It will always be worth at least scrap price for brass.

jeeps · Dec 6, 2020

4 cents a case for 9mm

Moe Mentum · Dec 6, 2020

I have 5 home depot buckets full of 9mm range brass. Just bend down and pick it up, it's all over the place.... since it's so readily available, it isn't worth much.

kbm6893 · Dec 6, 2020

I was just fishing. Yeah, it was all range pick-up. I agree it's everywhere, but not now. I hit the county range and pickings are slim. It's not taking up much space so I'll keep it for now. I just reload the thousands of cases I already have until they split, anyway.

BC38 · Dec 6, 2020

Value really depends on the quantity purchased. Smaller quantities, 10 cents a piece shipped is a decent price right now. For larger quantities, 5 to 7 cents seems to be market price right now. Of course for in-person sales you can reduce those prices a few cents per piece.

There have been millions of rounds shot and left lying on the ground or on the floor each month over the last 25 years. Over the last few months, not so much.

Even used brass has gotten hard to find in a lot of places. It was so plentiful a year ago that most people wouldn't bother to pick it up, even if they reloaded. A lot of those who did, and collected big buckets full, have now sold off about all they are willing to sell.

So now anyone with a bunch of it on hand has something of value. Still not a huge value, but getting more valuable every day.

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