Recycling Spent Primers

[JWFilips]

For Years I have just tossed them in the trash but since I'm sitting on a few pounds of spent primers I was wondering if anyone recycles them? They appear to be mostly brass. Is it worth the trouble? I usually give my son the unwanted trash brass cases and blown copper jackets I find on the berms when I'm picking lead.
A few times I was surprised at how much he got for them!
Worth recycling?

 

[Rick]

Brass & nickel, sure if ya can find a recycler to take them. Some areas of the country do, in some areas they won't touch them. I tried to with a full 3 pound coffee can in CA and wasn't a recycler to be found that would take them.

 

[JWFilips]

Shame they can't be melted down into ingots

 

[Cherokee]

My local scrap dealer takes them and pays scrap brass price. Once a year I take brass and primer to him and get some lead.

 

[Brad]

I dump them in my scrap brass bucket. Will need to take it to the scrap yard soon and see what I get for it.

 

[Ian]

Scrap prices have been at an epic low for months. Hang onto them for now. I've been considering trying to make .22 gas checks out of them for a few years but it would require a special bullet mould.

 

[dale2242]

They go in with my scrap brass.
Local scrap dealers have no issues taking them. They pay the same as scrap brass..
The last price I was quoted for scrap brass was $.85 a lb. That was a few months ago....dale

 

[blackthorn]

California lead-free shot for hunting???

 

[fiver]

ahem cough... sticktothesmallonesforcloserangework... cough.

I toss them in the brass buckets.
one of these day's I will haul the whole mess down to the scrap yard and see what they say.
I guess if I have to, some cinder blocks and a hair dryer will be employed to make ingots, I still have about
10 lbs. of coal.