Alright, I'll bid on the stuff and likely rent a Penske truck to collect if I win the auction. Costs on that will be probably around $100-200, with fuel being another $50. So total should be under $450 at the cheapest. Ish. I'm also looking into a shipping company that can do the leg work for me, if they're cheap enough, I'll go with them to save me hassle. Essentially "pricing" will be unknown but theoretically yielding about 150,000 brass. Or $0.003 per piece of brass. Mind you, drum weight and ammo cans are included in weight. Ammo cans are mine, obviously.
If and when I get the brass, we can argue about who gets what and what cost.
Theoretically, the melt value is about $4k.
Then I would imagine it will go for $1500-2000. Considering there are scrap yards that will pay 50-75% of melt, and a truck is cheap.
In any case, say its $500 per barrel, its still on the order of <$0.01/case, which makes it reasonable.
I would say don't bid it over $1600 for a barrel each of the big 4, ($400/barrel), and go from there.
If you really want to make money off it, get yourself a harvey deprimer, a few Netflix movies, and deprime the brass...while doing a quick visual insoection, and then sell it as sorted, deprimed, once fired brass. Get a power primer pocket cutter and cut the crimps out, and then you would be really good. You'd easily make back any investment.
I will take 10k of all 4 calibers (9/40/5.56/7.62)