A question on the value of 1f brass and hulls

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Good day, my apologies if this should be on another section.

What are the rough values of 1f 9mm, 1f target load hulls, and 1f high brass hulls from buckshot and slugs?

I don't load these calibers, nor do I intend to, but I have a lot of empties piled up from cleaning up Crown land shooting spots. They're all clean and in the case of the hulls not stepped on and flat, 1f for sure since I watch my friends and I pull it out of factory boxes. Mostly just wondering if it's worth my time to put up an EE ad for them or just put them in the trash.

Thank you all!
 
The hulls depend on which hulls they are and which gauge.

12 gauge is common, so value is lower, 20 ha slightly less common any other gauge is more still.

Premium target hulls are generally worth more than cheap promo load hulls.

Sub gauge or 10ga hulls are harder to come by and worth more as well.

More info is needed to give anything further than this.
 
They are "worth" what someone will pay to you for them. No "price list" anywhere that matters, unless buying new ones from a store. My last purchase was 1,200 Challenger 28 gauge 1F hulls. Good sized box of them mailed to me. Amounted to 7.25 cents each (mailed) in 2014. Have not needed to buy any since. Another person in different situation would be willing to pay more, or to pay less. You increase your potential sale proceeds by identifying exactly what you have - "a lot of mixed hulls" probably gets you absolute lowest offering prices. Unlike brass case rifle or handgun, many shotgun reloaders like me use a recipe calling for a specific hull - Winchester AA-HS, for example - to go with the bags full of specific wads we have, to go with the specific shotgun powder we stocked. Those Challenger hulls that I bought work perfectly with the "recipe" that I use, (they interchange perfectly with Cheddite hulls in my experience), so may have minimal value to someone who would have to re-stock different wads and powder to use them
 
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Thanks for all the info everyone. To clarify, the shells are all 12ga, half Winchester super target and half Remington gun club, which I have sorted out. The high brass stuff would be a mixed bag of 12ga as we don't shoot a lot of buck and slug, so dribs and drabs of Remington, Winchester, Dominion, S&B, etc. I guess I'll be hanging onto it since we pick it all up anyhow, might as well wait until I can sell it by the 500/1000 and be able to put a few bucks towards the next case.
 
for what it may be worth I paid 32$( shipped) for 3500 12 gauge AA once fired hulls two years ago.
 
I reload tonnes of 308 for F Class.

But when SFRC has one of their 18% off flash sales, I find it very difficult to justify reloading for my semiautos that take 9mm and 223 on my single stage press. When buying large quantities bulk at 18% off ...for that price its hard to justify saving $0.05 /round (or whatever) for all that extra time at the bench to feed guns that burn up ammo quickly.

That being said, I regard my 9mm and 223 brass effectively as "a by-product of my hobby," and I price it as such.
I don't want it cluttering up my shop, and I don't plan on retiring any time soon from anything that I sell used.

Someone mentioned in another post $0.04 /per 9mm .... that's way too much.
You'd be waiting forever for it to sell.

I've been known to sell 1,000 of same batch (9mm or 223) for like $15 to $20 (shipping on the buyer).... usually gone in about 2 days.
 
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