$30 for coffee can of used primers!

[125JHP]

when I took em to the recycle center...

I have been dumping my used primers into a 3# Folgers can and it was full so I decided to see if the recycle center would give me #1 yellow brass price for em even though most had nickle plating - they did! Over 1.60 a LB, so save all them primers and recycle em (same for bad cases).

 

[ArchAngelCD]

I have 3 coffee cans full of primers and bad cases mixed. I'm about to take them to the scrap yard. $50 or $60 would be great just before Christmas...

 

[Rule3]

I have been doing that also except the last time they screwed me over and changed the price for ammo brass to $1.25 claiming they had a detonation. I had a 5 gal bucket. I am going to another place next time.

 

[Arik]

I have 3 coffee cans full of primers and bad cases mixed. I'm about to take them to the scrap yard. $50 or $60 would be great just before Christmas...

This is why i pick up un reloadable surplus brass. They are still recycle -able

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[125JHP]

This is why i pick up un reloadable surplus brass. They are still recycle -able

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Don't ya just love those berdan primed 308's ?

 

[novalty]

I've got a larger Folger's can about half full of junk brass, and the salt container sitting on my bench has my primers. Pretty full after the last batch of 2500 or so I put in their.

Did you know a Redding primer tube holds about 400 small pistol primers?

 

[JIMBO1950]

I have been saving primers(about 2.5 gallons),but i did not think that you could salvage them.I am going to run them down
to the local yard !!

 

[Maximumbob54]

I have a half full gallon bucket so far. But I might stash them instead for future reloading if anyone ever starts making the compound. I did the match sticks heads thing once and what a pain... Yuck. And I cleaned the bore when I was done.

 

[Arik]

Don't ya just love those berdan primed 308's ?

Yep! Along with all the Turk, Egyptian and Yugo 8mm Mauser!

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[ricks1]

many places wont buy them . BUT if you soak in diesel fuel and drain and let air dry on papers . they will , same with brass. Just use the diesel so they can smell it . It works around here

 

[kennyb]

sigh...and i have thrown out used primers for years...

 

[Realzebub45]

And I thought I was the only cheap S.O.B. that did that and had my wife making fun.

 

[H Richard]

Ever since a buddy told me a couple yrs ago, I am working on filling a 5 gal. dry wall compound bucket. It will take me a couple more yrs.

 

[jtcarm]

Wow, I had no idea used primers could be recycled.

If you cast, old brass is awesome to take to a metal salvage yard, you can take away several pounds of wheel weights for each lb of brass (at least last time I did).

 

[jtcarm]

Yep! Along with all the Turk, Egyptian and Yugo 8mm Mauser!

What's wrong with those? Are they junk?

 

[125JHP]

Many types of foreign military ammo is brass cased but with berdan primers, which the average joe can't reload, so most of the time they get left on the ground or thrown away. Stuff from com-bloc countries is usually steel and at least one is copper washed - that is the stuff to stay away from.

 

[kamloops67]

careful using wheel weights ive been told most new wheel weights are a zinc alloy? galvanizing barrels might be nice for rust resistance...

 

[jim8300]

I have saved my primers for recycling also. Do they take shotgun primers also?

 

[rewster]

Looks like it might be time to visit the metal dealer. The large container weighs between 25 and 26 lbs. I've only been collecting them for 10 years !

 

[1HAWKEYE]

My local recycling center has been paying 1.70 a pound for a while so I even pick up my empty.22lr cases. You should see the look on there faces when they get a couple of the big pretzel jars full not to mention all the other spent primers & unreloadable brass, heck last year I paid my club dues & my NRA renewal that way.