hey i am sort of new at this but i was wondering what everyone else did with the brass from the .17? i have thought about trying to melt the brass down or selling it but haven't decided what to do yet. feel free to leave sugestions.

I keep a bucket in my gun room for brass that is either non-reloadable or no longer useful. Every once in a while, I sell it as scrap metal. With the price of metals constantly on the rise, you get a nice chunk of change for the old brass which would otherwise be thrown out.

What Bobby said I even pick up discarded brass at my range and throw in my brass bucket.

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I even pick up discarded brass at my range and throw in my brass bucket.

Our club is making $200 per month from the discarded brass sold to the scrap man. Common calibers are picked up, cleaned, and sold to those of us who reload.

LWD

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Originally posted by Bobby Tomek:
I keep a bucket in my gun room for brass that is either non-reloadable or no longer useful. Every once in a while, I sell it as scrap metal. With the price of metals constantly on the rise, you get a nice chunk of change for the old brass which would otherwise be thrown out.

I do that too. Except the aluminum oddball cases it's worth it. Local scrap buyer is only giving 53 cents/lb for Al in small lots. Takes a lot of soda cans and misc scraps to make it worth the gas money even, for Al stuff. Makes it a once a year, full pickup load of overly-past-prime brass, Al, and steel stuff from my mistake with Wolf things that killed my extractors to make it worth it since I live in the boonies and my truck is a gasaholic that's only used when a truck is needed.

P.S.
If anyone has Lott or .577 Snider they need rid of that's in reloadable condition. I'm buying.