Selling Your Brass?

[Spartikus]

So I have been interested in reloading for awhile now but so far haven't made the leap. Partly it's because I shoot my 9mm a lot to keep the cost down and since the ammo is so cheap I struggle to justify the cost. I have been, however, keeping all my brass every time I go to the range and have well over a 1000 casings. I was just curious if there are people out there that just sell off the brass or recycle it because they don't reload. Maybe it's a dumb question but I just figured it couldn't hurt if I asked.

 

[JBnTx]

I'm sure you could sell or trade that brass to someone at the range.

 

[blujax01]

There are no dumb questions.

One of the local gun shops around here buys brass but they only pay $.01 per for 9 mm.

Hang onto it and when you begin reloading you may find that you want to work up some 9 mm anyway. It's not only about making cheap ammo. You will find that you can tailor ammo for your particular guns.

 

[Moonman]

Save it, you never know what's in the future of component availability.

 

[Rule3]

See this thread:

http://smith-wessonforum.com/reloading/248623-reloding-9mm-40s-w-make-sense.html

Save your brass. Scrap value is not so good. Selling 9mm not real profitable as it is so common.

Reloading it is still less than buying it once you pay off the cost of equipment and if you buy primers and powder in bulk.

Around $6-7 per box of 50. +/-

 

[Frank46]

I have been saving brass for years. But not all calibers. The ones I save are 38spl,357mag,44 special, 44 mag. Rifle 223/5.56mm, 30-30, 308, 30-06 and maybe a few others. It took me almost ten years to fill up a 55 gallon drum. Got a pretty penny for it to. Moral to this story. Start scrounging all the brass you can. I stored mine in 5 gallon buckets. Then you can get your reloading equipment. Or at least a good part of it. I have 40mm cans full of 223/5.56mm, 45auto, 38special,357 mag and a few rifle calibers. All of it cleaned, primer pockets clean and tumbled. I once picked up a large usps flat rate box of once fired winchester 30-30 brass. Supposedly came from their testing range. Somewhere about 1800 cases. so start scrounging. Them wallyworld bags came in real handy picking up the brass. on a good day 500 or mare cases. Sort out the ones I want and chuck the rest in the bucket. Heck, I used to mine the pistol range berm for lead to make more bullets. Frank

 

[ArchAngelCD]

So I have been interested in reloading for awhile now but so far haven't made the leap. Partly it's because I shoot my 9mm a lot to keep the cost down and since the ammo is so cheap I struggle to justify the cost. I have been, however, keeping all my brass every time I go to the range and have well over a 1000 casings. I was just curious if there are people out there that just sell off the brass or recycle it because they don't reload. Maybe it's a dumb question but I just figured it couldn't hurt if I asked.

1000 pieces of 9mm brass isn't all that much so selling it off is a little premature. When you do start reloading you will want/need much more than 1000 pieces of any semi-auto brass you shoot. You will lose more than you think possible! lol

I collect all the brass I can find when at the range. I load what I shoot and save what I don't. Every once and a while I will trade off the stuff I don't load for calibers I do load. The only brass I sell to the scrap yard is the stuff I throw in the scrap bucket. (damaged, split and berdan primer brass)

 

[frankw]

used brass, especially once fired brass in the popular calibers is in high demand.
Check gun broker or any of the gun forums and it usually gets bought up quickly.
Because 9mm reloading is "iffy" for some people, it is probably lower in resale value but $35-40 per 1000 is pretty average. .45 acp will fetch $50-60 1000.

 

[mark olindale]

There are lots of people that reload 9mm, they are always looking for brass. Try posting it on armslist or on some other firearms classifieds.

 

[Titegroups]

Once you start reloading you'll find 9mm so boring you'll not use it. Got at least 10000 empty 9s and have little interest in it. 357,44, 45LC,41, 10mm, mo better. If I'm going to load something it needs to be interesting.