Scrap brass prices

[oa98pistol512]

Scrap brass is back up to $1.95 at cherry city metals as of 11/30/23 . If you cant sell that 9mm brass now is the time to scrap it.

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[JohnH]

Calbag Metals in Portland is at $2.22 today!!

Such a shame to have to scrap brass, I miss the days of cheap components and people actually buying brass!!

 

[JuglansRegia]

What are they paying for tungsten/carbide?

 

[Caveman Jim]

I just sold 120# of scrap/damaged brass (4 years of accumulation) for $120 since I didn't want to deal with the physical aspects of "scrappin".

 

[DizzyJ]

How much does 1,000 9mm cases weigh?

 

[arakboss]

How much does 1,000 9mm cases weigh?

roughly a 113 cases per pound, I'll let you do the math.

 

[HighlandLofts]

A 1,000 - 9mm cases weigh 8.5 pounds.
Scrap price at $2 a pound will fetch you $17.
I refuse to pick it up, seperate the brass, wet tumble it, inspect it and sell it for $25 a thousand.
But people will go out and buy new 9mm brass for $30 a hundred.
I've reloaded some of my 9mm and other straight walled pistol calibers so many times the nickel plating has worn off and can't read the head stamp and more.
On 45acp I quit counting after fifty reloads.

I'm sitting on all of my 9mm brass until range brass takes a hike in price again.
Thing will go sour for us reloaders again and things will increase in price.
I only scrap garbage cases, if it's reloadable I keep it. Back when obozo was in office I sold close to three tons of rifle and pistol brass and am sitting on close to that amount right now and am still getting more.

Lead is another commodity that I buy , process and sit on. I,ve sold tons & tons of processed lead all across the country. 70 pound medium flat rate boxes holds 70 pounds of lead shipped for less then $20 a box.
I should be getting a couple hundred pounds of range brass on monday. I'll seperate it, wet tumble it and store it with my other processed brass until the price goes back up again.

I like processing lead in the spring time when the weather is nice and no rain. I can clean and mold a lot of lead on a weekend.

 

[gmerkt]

The price paid for scrap cartridge brass in Seattle today was $2.20 the pound.

I didn't have much to sell, mostly spent primers and damaged / worn out cases. Also some really old paper shotshell heads made of brass, after they were thrown in the fire to burn away the paper.

 

[Caveman Jim]

The price paid for scrap cartridge brass in Seattle today was $2.20 the pound.

I didn't have much to sell, mostly spent primers and damaged / worn out cases. Also some really old paper shotshell heads made of brass, after they were thrown in the fire to burn away the paper.

So they take spent primers?
Those 8 jugs equal just shy of 100#s. I need em gone…

 

[gmerkt]

So they take spent primers?
Those 8 jugs equal just shy of 100#s. I need em gone…

Well, they take them where I sell my recycling. After all, they are brass and used in cartridges, so "cartridge brass." And dust, there is X amount of dust that gets mixed in with spent primers. The recyclers get the dust too.

They get some already with fired cases that are still capped.

I'd say call first to make sure.

 

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[JohnH]

So they take spent primers?
Those 8 jugs equal just shy of 100#s. I need em gone…

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I've been taking my brass to Calbag lately and they actually pay a little more per pound for primers over the price of just brass cases FWIW

 

[Mikej]

I've been taking my brass to Calbag lately and they actually pay a little more per pound for primers over the price of just brass cases FWIW

Is CalBag paying more that Metro Metals for cartridge brass? I live 5 min away from Metro. My boy gave me 2 5 gal buckets 3/4 full of mixed. There's something in me that tells me it a sin to throw away usable brass though. It's a dilemma! But geeze, I already have a bunch of everything I shoot/load. And no one want's good used brass at half or less the price of new.

 

[aasbra]

So they take spent primers?
Those 8 jugs equal just shy of 100#s. I need em gone…

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That's an impressive amount of brass processing that resulted in filling those containers!

 

[Val1884]

Might be time to turn in the 55 gal of berdan 762..now to figure out how to lift it

 

[HighlandLofts]

I was talking with a fellow member yesterday about the brass situation.
I called Braven metal's yesterday, they are paying seventy cents a pound for brass rifle and pistol cases.
I called Skagit Steel yesterday and they are paying eighty-five cents a pound for brass rifle and pistol cases.
For that price I'll hang on to all of my scrap brass .
At the low prices the reloadable brass is selling for I'll sit on them to.

It's a waiting game.

 

[Caveman Jim]

That's an impressive amount of brass processing that resulted in filling those containers!

These were given to me by a friend. I've only filled up 2 (not pictured) so far.

 

[JohnH]

@Mikej

Calbag is $2.45/# for brass cases today and
Metro is $2.30/#

 

[oremike]

If you are near enough to St. Johns there are three big scrap yards you can price check for the best deal. Calbags, Metro and Mt. Hood.

 

[gmerkt]

I called Braven metal's yesterday, they are paying seventy cents a pound for brass rifle and pistol cases.
I called Skagit Steel yesterday and they are paying eighty-five cents a pound for brass rifle and pistol cases.

Yes, they are offering so little because they are in an outlying area. They haul it to someplace like Pacific Iron & Metal in the Seattle industrial district where they get more than the $2.20 I got because larger amounts get a spiff over small amounts. Basically, the difference is transportation. You can save yours up for when you may have a trip to Seattle already planned. The VA is in the south end of town, that's when I take my recycling along. But I don't make a special trip for it. There is a Korean-owned recycling place nearer to me, they offer a fraction of what I get in Seattle. But I've seen Pacific Iron & Metal's green bins there that they haul it into town in.