Selling or recycling bulk 5.56/223 brass?

[skygao]

Curious how folks handle their bulk brass that they won't use. I'm a goblin at the range after rifle matches and pick up a good bit of 5.56. I wet tumble before depriming and without steel media (since steel pins get stuck in 5.56 too easily), and then generally do some light sorting for the head stamps I'll usually see a lot of (LC, PMC, PPU, etc.).

At this point I'm centralizing around my now large box of LC brass and don't know what to do with the rest. It's unprocessed, cleaner than range brass due to the tumble, but with primers in so of course no cleaning to the primer pocket. Brass recycling is around $2/lb of brass (~75 pieces of 5.56) or about $26.50 per 1000. Do people pay any more than that for 5.56 brass in this condition?

Debating if it's worth sorting all these other head stamps or if I ought to just be plucking out my LC and throwing the rest in a recycling bucket or mixed headstamp bag to sell.

 

[palmettomoon]

Hold it for the next "panic." It's not been so long ago that 223 brass was selling for 15-20 cents each unprocessed.

 

[skygao]

Hold it for the next "panic." It's not been so long ago that 223 brass was selling for 15-20 cents each unprocessed.

I wonder how my partner will feel about the 5 Gal bucket of brass laying around being labeled an "investment"

 

[palmettomoon]

I wonder how my partner will feel about the 5 Gal bucket of brass laying around being labeled an "investment"

Dude. I must have 15 - 5 gallon buckets of .223 brass and just took delivery on 18,000 pcs of primed Lake City .308 brass.

Go full retard or go home, LOL!

 

[palmettomoon]

My point is the fight is the same whether you're talking 3,000 or 30,000.

 

[palmettomoon]

I have a friend that picks up brass. He just sold unsorted, uncleaned range pickups to a local scrapper for more than $2 per lb. He had about 4,000lbs.

 

[skygao]

I have a friend that picks up brass. He just sold unsorted, uncleaned range pickups to a local scrapper for more than $2 per lb. He had about 4,000lbs.

That’s gotta be like ~300k pieces

One way to recover costs in this hobby that’s for sure

 

[BHPSteel]

I wonder how my partner will feel about the 5 Gal bucket of brass laying around being labeled an "investment"

You know that brass has a higher resale value than all those shoes your partner owns?

 

[skygao]

You know that brass has a higher resale value than all those shoes your partner owns?

I have way more shoes than my partner does, they're the minimalist one in this relationship. It's telling there's a room colloquially called the "gun room" and no other hobby named room in the house

 

[Paxdad]

I have a friend that picks up brass. He just sold unsorted, uncleaned range pickups to a local scrapper for more than $2 per lb. He had about 4,000lbs.

Can you share the name of the local scrapper?