Thread: What to do with fired casings and shells

Hi all,

I’m doing some shooting with a friend on their farm real soon.
We will be shooting .22lr, steel cased centrefire ammo and 12 gauge.

Was just wondering what I’m supposed to do with the spent casings and shotgun shells?
Can they just go in the bin?

Cheers

They sure can

Save them in a bucket and when you have enough brass or steel cases take to the scrap man. Doesn't work for shotgun shells though

If you find the right person you'll be able to sell them, probably not much in the scheme of things but its an option, Not sure if theres a market for steel cased centrefire stuff as its harder to reload, 12 gauge will be easy enough to sell though, if you find someone setup for making 22 cal projectiles with spent cases you might be able to get some money back, might not beat scrappie rates though,
even I've been saving my spent 22lr cases for a year or so, eventually dreaming that I'll get a bullet swaging system

Steel case probably no good to man nor beast - likely berdan primed which aren't available in NZ (maybe a few stragglers left for the .303British but that'd be about it). .22 unless in bulk is not worth anything, but it is good valuable scrap if you have bulk (20L bucket full of spent cases).

12g is likely the easiest to move on but not worth much unfortunately.

Metal recycling place in wellie lists brass casings at $4.50 per kg.

Lazyafpanda is about to become a millionaire. Lol

Originally Posted by Oldbloke

Lazyafpanda is about to become a millionaire. Lol

1,000,000 divided by 4.5 is about 222,222kg

A 22lr casing weighs 0.6 grams

So I’d need about
370,370,000 casings
Or
82.3 Toyota Hiluxes worth
Or
4.831 million golf balls worth
Or
the amount of rounds that have missed that prized deer “due to the wind” on the daily

If I start saving my shells now I might have a chance wish me luck guys

Own calibres that you don’t worry about having to look for after ejecting and walk on

12g empty are worthless, clay target clubs dump thousands every weekend