are primers brass?

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bobeano

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ive be putting worn out brass in a 5gal bucket someday it will be full.

what do u guy do with all spent primers from you reloading?
are they brass?
 
I knew a guy years ago that did commercial loading. He also kept used primers in a 5 gal bucket. He said they are brass and he turned them in as brass.
 
Don't know if they are brass or not but silver ones would be white brass if they are. As far as I know white brass is worth a little less than yellow brass but still worth something
 
... if you fill a 5 gallon bucket with only spent primers, PLEASE take a picture! I'd like to just see what that looks like.

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Originally Posted By: Ricky Bobby... if you fill a 5 gallon bucket with only spent primers, PLEASE take a picture! I'd like to just see what that looks like.

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Last place I worked, we had a 55 gallon steel drum, that was 1/3 filled with fired primers...

... and a pallet with 1.2 million live primers on it.
 
Originally Posted By: Ricky Bobby... if you fill a 5 gallon bucket with only spent primers, PLEASE take a picture! I'd like to just see what that looks like.

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lol dont know if that will happen in my life time.i was mainly wondering so i can just put them in the bucket with the brass.
it does seam like the catch tube on my press fills up fast with spent primers.
 
I recently turned in 20lbs of brass casings along with spent primers and nothing was said. Seems they don't like to pay as much for rifle brass as other brass. They only gave a buck a lb but I didn't have to make a special trip. I probably should have checked around but I was tired of looking at them.
 
Originally Posted By: DANNY-LI recently turned in 20lbs of brass casings along with spent primers and nothing was said. Seems they don't like to pay as much for rifle brass as other brass. They only gave a buck a lb but I didn't have to make a special trip. I probably should have checked around but I was tired of looking at them.

Scrap yards will pay more for 'clean' metal than dirty. That doesn't mean dirt
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. You could sell most brass to loaders for quite a bit more than a buck a pound. But it's a bigger pain obviously.
 
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