Recycling shotgun hulls

Doug The Canuck

Doug The Canuck

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Does anyone know of a recycler that will take shotgun hulls? Right now we just throw them in the garbage, which can get expensive.

Would rather put them in a recycling dumpster and have them hauled away for nothing.
 
Bunny huggers will not appreciate the following, but..

Barrie still allow fire permits???
The plastic isn't particularly useful for recycling due to the steel or brass content.

I'd just make sure the hulls were added well after the fire was hot as hades so there would be little smoke. Get it hot enough and you should be able to screen the ashes with chickenwire to reclaim the metal and a roofing nail magnet to cull the steel.
 
Hi,

I found that currently there is no way to recycle them in canada. We pay to dump them.

A UK company invented a machine to recycle there as they can not be thrown in the garbage there and since there were tons of them, they actually make money off clubs plus materials.

In the USA , there is a program run in conjunction with white flyer targets. They deliver giant bags which a club fills and retuns on a white flyer truck after a delivery. They won't support canada as there is an issue shipping empties across the border. A machine in canada would be great.
 
Canuck223 said:
Bunny huggers will not appreciate the following, but..

Barrie still allow fire permits???
The plastic isn't particularly useful for recycling due to the steel or brass content.

I'd just make sure the hulls were added well after the fire was hot as hades so there would be little smoke. Get it hot enough and you should be able to screen the ashes with chickenwire to reclaim the metal and a roofing nail magnet to cull the steel.
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Last time we burned cor plast on a cleanup day, we got complaints from the neighbours. Don't want that again.
 
I've been delivering them to the landfill, but that is getting to be more difficult since the local closed and the new one is more distant. Besides I'm getting tired of doing it and the barn is getting full too. It's true one can reload some of them, though not all by any means. A lot of the cheapies aren't worth reloading and it goes against manufacturer's recommendations anyway. I don't want to burn them because of possible pollution issues. The way things are going all of us will probably be held responsible for the ultimate fate of any manufactured product and probably rightly so. If there is any fairness to the process, a dubious thing at the best of times, manufacturer's will have a large share of the responsibility for this. Of course there is always the question of whether manufacturers would find it worthwhile to take on the extra cost of doing this. I have wondered if somebody couldn't make hulls out of biodegradable plastic. That would solve at least part of the problem. Downrange has biodegradable wads that work well for me, at least the one ounce ones do. So, someone has been thinking about this particular solution. It's going to be interesting to see what the future brings.
 
I started a thread on this a long time ago.
It still seems here in Canada that there is no recycling option. In Europe there is an outfit doing it.
The problem from what I can tell is separating the base from the plastic, in a way that is safe in the event there is a live round mixed in.
Our club burnt probably millions over the years, now we try to take them to landfill. Not sure which one is better for the environment.
 
Wonder if that company in Europe would split the cost of a sea-crate loaded to capacity. Might be worth it if they accepted the cartridges flattened.
 
Sounds like it may be time for ammo manufacturers to go back to paper hulls?! Does Federal still make a paper hull in their Gold Medal Target line? Those shells were awesome! They had a lot less recoil than a plastic hull with the same loading too and it does not take much to burn them in a barrel. They also reloaded very nicely.
 
the spank said:
Does Federal still make a paper hull in their Gold Medal Target line?
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They do. Lawry will sell you a flat for $94.00 for Premium, $110 for a flat of International. Hard to sell many of those when Top Gun is available for $52.95.

I haven't seen Challenger paper shells in some years. Federals were far better particularly in the rain or in cold weather. Challenger paper didn't repel water and like all of there shells performed poorly in cold weather.
 
I still have some Challenger papers. They will still make them, but you need to order an appropriate quantity. Last I heard, this summer, was a skid is appropriate and they are significantly cheaper than the Federal Papers.
 
Claybuster said:
They do. Lawry will sell you a flat for $94.00 for Premium, $110 for a flat of International. Hard to sell many of those when Top Gun is available for $52.95.

I haven't seen Challenger paper shells in some years. Federals were far better particularly in the rain or in cold weather. Challenger paper didn't repel water and like all of there shells performed poorly in cold weather.
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The last time I bought Federal Gold Medal plastic or paper a flat was 20 boxes and $115! That's how long it has been. LOL I have lots of the Top Gun here at home.......they are great for popping pigeons to keep the farmers barns cleaned out.

I can remember when a flat went from 20 boxes to 10...........man I am aging myself now!
 
id buy .410 stuff any and all

win aa and aa hs,rem gun club,nitro gold,sts,fed gold medal,ect sell fast it seems ive loaded everything possable kent,challanger,winchester (just about any winchester hull out there),federal same as winchser,remington,some euro stuff
 
Claybuster said:
They do. Lawry will sell you a flat for $94.00 for Premium, $110 for a flat of International. Hard to sell many of those when Top Gun is available for $52.95.

I haven't seen Challenger paper shells in some years. Federals were far better particularly in the rain or in cold weather. Challenger paper didn't repel water and like all of there shells performed poorly in cold weather.
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Federal papers are still around and still a few guys here at least reloading vintage ones. I dug up probally 500 or so this year from my stash for a member since I don't do much 12ga any more

Ok from spanks" post below lets see hold old you are .:)I remember the 20 box lots also but do you remember the 1000 round boxes of the black AA trap loads. Best dam hull ever produced and for some reason some say color pigment would reload like 12 times vs maybe 8 with the red.
I have a few boxes still and maybe 300 1x hulls.

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