Question: Scrap or sell

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Question: Scrap or sell

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I have a crap tonne of .308 once fired brass. Predominately commercial match loads (Federal, Winchester, Hornady, Nexus, MagTech). All fired through well built and trued rifles. There is over 2000 pieces (I'm not counting it all but prolly closer to 2500) - Nope, not reloading it - absolutely no desire to add to my headaches.
Sell it for, say, $300 or scrap it???


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Re: Question: Scrap or sell

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scrap it
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Scrap brass is going for right around $1.55 per pound right now.
If you have 2500 pieces of 308 , you have right around 65 pounds of brass.
So 65 X $1.55 = $100.75

I have no idea what reloading brass is going for , but if you can sell it for $300 as reloading brass you will be way ahead.
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Checking auctions and various websites, even once fired milsurp is going for $.14 - $.18 a piece. Im at approx $.12 for commercial match brass. New brass? Fugit about it....
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Finding prices/objects for sale on the world wide web,... no problem.

Finding buyers,... different story, imo.

I have hundreds of 308 brass cases stored away that I offered for sale at 10 cents, me thinks, most shooters do.

Just say'n,... I would scrap it, I wouldn't want the headache of finding and dealing with a buyer.
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I just gave away 1000 pieces of 30-06 cuz I couldn't sell it for .10 ea...
I still have about 500 7mm mag and 500 .243 that might end up in the same waters...
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Yeah, but there's not much market for 30-06 or 243 these days. 308 and .223 and some of the pistol calibers are different.
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Harrier wrote: July 9th, 2019, 8:21 am I just gave away 1000 pieces of 30-06 cuz I couldn't sell it for .10 ea...
I still have about 500 7mm mag and 500 .243 that might end up in the same waters...


If it wasn't a 50+ mile trip to the post office, I would probably do the same.
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Thank you, gentlemen. Appreciate the input.
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Good Luck,... on what ever you decide!
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Yeah, these days brass doesn't seem to sell. I don't know if most reloaders stocked up after the last panic/scare or what?

For example, I have a bunch of 300 WIn Mag brass and I sold my 300WM rifle with no plans to ever get another. So I had tried to give the brass away to a shooter that could use it but have had no takers.
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The next panic is just beyond the next corner, so I would hang onto it, unless you have no place to store it. I'm sitting on around 3k of Lake city shot once .308. I used to reload it, but not so much any more. Its sitting in the barn. I recently gave 2k of lake city .223, because I have 10k of it laying around. Now 30-06 to some people is gold especially Lake City brand like me. But I believe Harrier lives a long way away and its just not worth it when you tack on shipping/driving long distance. If I really needed it, I would bend, but again I'm sitting on just under 5k of a combination of Lake City/Greek 30-06, sized, de-primed, swaged, trimed to length.
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Yah, I think members here are the rule, not the exception! I believe the majority of folks who use, also have, so, it's a real iffy thing (imo) to find a buyer. Personally, my time is usually worth more than the effort exerted.

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Take it to Scorpion and trade it for it's value in reloads if you don't mind shooting reloaded ammo.
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Re: Question: Scrap or sell

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Post by XJThrottle »

I usually just clean up the mess I make in the dez, then toss it in the metal scrap bin at work on Monday. I'm not reloading it, and my buddy that reloads doesn't reload what I shoot.
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