Used 12 ga shells from trapshooting-save or toss?

[Hemingway]

I have recently begun trapshooting and plan on staying with it since I love it.

I generally will shoot 100 or so shells at a session. I have never reloaded and don't think I'll get into it but should I be saving the hulls for resale to a reloader? What are these things worth? The shells are just the Wal-Mart 100 round Winchester 1 1/8 oz 8 shot target loads.

Thanks

 

[slow1911s]

Someone might buy them. If the are AA hulls, there is a market for those.

 

[fireball168]

500 hulls generally go for $40 +/-.

Depending on where you are at and how many you have, I may be interested to save some shipping expense.

 

[Jack Ryan]

Does this give you an idea what they are worth?

Win AA would be worth keeping but the rest...

If you have a dry space with absolutely nothing else to do with it, then tie them up in free MaoMart bags until you need the space and then throw them away.

 

[melensdad]

I used to reload shotgun shells. A mixed bag/box of shells is not worth much. I would save Winchester AA low brass and Activ 100% plastic shells (no longer available) and reload them. They eventually fail at the crimp, but its possible to get 6 to 10 reloads out of a shell.

Someone said $40 per 500, for AA that sounds pretty good, assuming the shells were NOT left out in the weather but were picked up at the end of the shooting session.

For a mixed lot I would probably not even pay half that amount, if anything. For shells that were left out in the weather I would not pay anything. JMO

 

[kong1911]

Does this give you an idea what they are worth?

Win AA would be worth keeping but the rest...

If you have a dry space with absolutely nothing else to do with it, then tie them up in free MaoMart bags until you need the space and then throw them away.

This pretty much says it all. I have reloaded shotshells since the 70s. I still can buy AAs or STS hulls for 40 bux per thousand. BUT these are premium hulls, not the promo shells that you are using. They really aren't worth much to reloaders so I would just toss them at the end of the day. Now if you start shooting STS shells, I will buy all your spent hulls....

 

[sloughfoot]

Most trapshooters I know will take your hulls if you express no interest in them. They are generally very polite.......But will smile as they fill up their bag with your hulls.

 

[gunnerkc]

I save my hulls. I don't have my own reloader yet, but always find a use for them anyways. I made some really sick garlin for my Christmas tree

 

[soljah777]

Thats a good way to recycle gunnerkc

 

[mhs]

Great targets for a .22.

 

[yenningcomity]

Great targets for a .22.

I was going to buy a bucket of army men, but that is actually a really good idea. Only downside is you don't get the cool partial figurines, but they are essentially free so I can't complain.