Spent casing values

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Just doing some cleanup and sorting through a pail of brass I've been collecting over the years.

Curious what sort of value for once fired, factory casings?

Any value to the stainless casings?

Some examples of values I'd be curious about:

230 casings of 30-06
320 casings of 303 Brit
270 casings of 243 + 20 stainless casings
155 casings of 308 + 58 stainless

I think I have most of it separated, but I'm still counting 223 and 22-250.

I'm not looking for offers on any of it through here because I'm not willing to ship anything, but more so looking for an idea on value in case I come across someone locally who is interested, or perhaps at the next gun show.

Appreciate any input!
 
Seems cost prohibitive is all. Unless they are surprisingly valuable to someone.....

But if I have to essentially give them away and spend time packing and shipping, I'm just throwing them away.
 
I recently sold 320 Barnes once fired 30-06 brass for $40 - it was a good deal for the buyer, but demand is not high in the gun shows that I frequent.
Once fired commercial .303 has more demand, assuming it is commercial and not Berdan primed surplus - I have bought lots for 20 cents each or so.
The .243 and .308 commercial brass is somewhere between these values for once fired, in my estimation, not at all scarce.
 
Unusual rifle brass can be pricey. Stuff like 404 or 30-378, 350 mag, these can go for $2..$3..$4/. Common cals like 308 or 223《.50》,25.

Pistol brass.....03-.05/ for 9mm.

Even rifle brass has variables...federal not desired, remington is, then you have premium brass like nosler, lapua.
 
I used to carry a few bags of range brass to gunshows (in Ab.) and priced at $20 @100 (.270, 30-06, .223) nothing ever moved so I dumped them at one show for $5 bag, they all moved in the first morning
 
Interesting and good to know not to get my hopes up to high.

I haven't separated anything by brand, and I don't intend to as that would be too time consuming for what it's worth.

If the auction house is willing, I might actually just drop it all off there.

Thanks for the replies!
 
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I recently sold 320 Barnes once fired 30-06 brass for $40 - it was a good deal for the buyer, but demand is not high in the gun shows that I frequent.
Once fired commercial .303 has more demand, assuming it is commercial and not Berdan primed surplus - I have bought lots for 20 cents each or so.
The .243 and .308 commercial brass is somewhere between these values for once fired, in my estimation, not at all scarce.
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Maybe I should keep it to myself but as of two years ago I had never used it. Having some in 300AAC BO - a caliber I was having extreme difficulty finding subsonic accuracy, I weighed some Barnes brass along with Lapua... over about ten samples of each, overall weight was comparable but Barnes had less deviation. If the 30-06 is of the same quality as my 300BO brass, $40 was a good deal.

OP - premium brass in any caliber is valuable in quantities desirable to reloaders... two pieces of Lapua 30-06 aren't worth anymore then two pieces of Win brass but if the two pieces are part of a 50 or 100piece set of the same lot, yes. Rare and obsolete calibers are subject to the laws of supply and demand like everything else.
 
saskbooknut said:
I recently sold 320 Barnes once fired 30-06 brass for $40 - it was a good deal for the buyer, but demand is not high in the gun shows that I frequent.
Once fired commercial .303 has more demand, assuming it is commercial and not Berdan primed surplus - I have bought lots for 20 cents each or so.
The .243 and .308 commercial brass is somewhere between these values for once fired, in my estimation, not at all scarce.
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Turn that 30 06 into 8mm Mauser! Making more Mauser brass is going to be one of my winter jobs.
 
New 303br brass is worth 1$ each. Well 49.99 plus shipping and tax for 50 new brass

So once fired could easly bring in 50 cents each.

If you put the 303 brass on the EE for 100$ plus shipping it would sell fast. And then you still get 100$ no matter the shippijg cost
 
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520 empty cases from 22-250. On the plus side, I guess I have an approximate round count for my rifle.....

I always had great intentions of learning to reload, but I get distracted easily. Maybe one day I'll get to it, but for now I'm tired of the clutter.

Couple casings I'm hanging onto, like the 455 Webley and the handful of 444. Not even huge amounts of either.
 
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