I think I owe it to the membership at the club to give them first refusal. I suspect that is an easier place to sell the bullets anyway, given their weight. My guess is there will not be much interest in the brass as most shot that caliber at one time and probably have brass. Many, like myself, have lost interest in the recoil associated with shooting .45-70. I'm going to the club tomorrow and will spread the word. First come, first served. So, if you tell me tonight you want something and everything sells tomorrow at the club, I'm sorry but they get first dibs tomorrow. After that, it's all up for grabs.
I did look at what brass is going for on various sites. Starline is the cheapest. Priced around 60 cents each. But nobody has any. I checked all the usual sources including the expensive outfits and nobody has .45-70 of any brand. I even tried Dillon and they have no rifle brass at all! Amazing.
Hornady seems to be the high-priced spread, even though I could find not any available. The run about $1.60/each. I found a listing for Remington for .99 each. I looked on the Remington site and they don't even list .45-70 anymore.
I just paid $1.00 each for .218 Bee cases bought thru a friend from a friend of his. I paid a little over $50 for a bag of 50 in a LGS and he looked up what it would cost him to replace them his distributor price was $65.
So, how about 70 cents per case plus shipping. These are new, unprimed R-P cases. I have 230 total. I did not count them. I weighed several, took the heaviest and then weighed the lot and divided by the heaviest and rounded down. There is probably more than 230. If you want them all, $160 plus shipping.
As for the bullets, I was thinking that I could put them in a plastic bag and then into a Large Priority Mail box. I'll have to look at what that costs now. Used to be about $11.00 to ship, but I'm sure that's gone up. I know you can ship something like 70 lbs in one of those. I knew a guy that restored motorcycles and that is how he sent all the small chrome pieces to his plater.
Now I expected to find no shortage of cast bullets for sale on the web. To my amazement, the only outfits that have bullets for sale are places like Buffalo Arms at $28 per 50 or outfits getting between $90 and $100 per 500. One place actually had them priced per bullet at 15 cent a piece. At least that is only $75 for 500. I checked Meister's, who I used to buy from. They include shipping in their price. They price on their website is $101.09 for 500 shipped. But, they are also out of stock and their site says NO BACKORDERS.
So, I'm going to ask $50 for 500 .249 grain RNFP .38-55 bullets sized 0.377 and lubed. I have 1000. Brand is National.
I also have Lazer-Cast brand 240 grain RNFP .38-55 bullets sized 0.377 and lubed. I have 246 bullets. $25 for those.
All the bullets are commercial hardcast, sized and lubed.
