Hello from rodnocker1 in East Texas

Hello. I'm 69 and NOT a Metal Scrapper like most, I just pile up scrap from around my house but don't go around hunting it. I know that there are plenty of People that actually do this as a Business but I'm not one of them.

That being said, I have literally Tons of Brass Ammunition Casings that I've picked up from Ranges where I'm a Member. The closest Scrapyard to me is about 60 miles away and even though I have a lot of brass casings, I'm told by that scrapyard that casings are NOT Brass. They look and act like yellow brass to me, so I'm wondering if they are just saying that to keep from having to pay brass price?

Back when I was younger and more "Energetic", I would sell or trade Casings to other Reloaders. But that really got to be hectic, what with trying to keep up with who wanted what and I just don't have the Energy/Enthusiasm to do that anymore. I've recently been watching bigstackd casting videos on youtube and have thought about trying to melt and cast brass/copper/and Aluminum into ingots, thinking that those might bring better prices at the scrapyard. But since I have absolutely NO Equipment (Forge/Crucibles/Molds/NOTHING), I doubt that IF they do actually pay more for Ingots, that after buying even a minimum of Equipment to start (Plus paying for Propane) that I'd break even over just selling as scrap, unless I Really got on it and started searching the County for scrap (FWIW, The Town I live in has a Population of about 150 and the next town is about 8 miles away). I also have SOME cast aluminum along with some extruded aluminum and also zinc, though I can't tell the difference between the 2. And I have a pile of scrap steel (Tin/wire/lawn mowers/etc) that I've piled up over the years and had thought about digging a hole and burying, using the dirt out of the hole to cover the scrap iron up and build a shooting berm (I'm told that scrap Iron prices are so low that it wouldn't even pay my fuel costs to drag a trailer load to the scrapyard).



Anyway, I just wanted to say Hello and am going to try to learn more about scrap metal.
Thanks for having me.