[Noxx]

I started reloading about the same time I changed my shooting schedule from bi-annual to weekly.

My rule of thumb when I go to shoot is I'm going to come home with as much brass as I showed up with, and maybe a little extra for my trouble.

The question is, once you start picking the stuff up, on a heavily used range, where do you stop? I often find myself picking up my stuff and then... "Oh hey here's a pile of .45 that's pretty shiny yet....ooh, some 10 mike. Hey, a whole stash of .357, someone must have had their desert eagle up here.... oh hey look at this..."

Now I have buckets of brass all over my garage, many in calibers I don't even own (.357 Sig, wth?).

Is this normal, or am I a nutjob?

[strat81]

You are a normal nutjob THR reloader.

I only take the stuff I have a gun for or that I know my FIL or friends will use. For example, none of us own a .40S&W, so that stuff stays for another vulture. I suppose if I ever found something "rare" like .500, .460, .338, etc. I'd grab it just to sell.

[ReloaderFred]

I take everything I can find. If I don't load for it, I know someone who does. Good brass should never go to waste..........

Fred

[Dirtypacman]

Anything thats nice and shiny but I do only take what I can reload.

[FieroCDSP]

On the indoor range I frequent, I try to sweep up as much as I can because they have a service on contract (maybe just a guy) that comes in and hauls it off to recycle. They don't let you pick through the buckets, so I sweep up as much as I can from in front of the line. I've got a lot of 9mm I can load, now that I have one. I've got probably 500 45ACP that I'm sittin on, plus numerous others. Maybe I'll sell it when I get enough.

On the outdoor range I'm a member at, I pick most of mine up as part ofmy "leave it cleaner than you found it" campaign. I picked up 200 LC and Federal 223 cases someone just left strewn about the range. A handfull of 30-06, some 30 carbine, some 9mm, lots of 22 to scrap out. The 30-06 I went diving for in the trash. :o

If anyone finds or has some 7.62x54R brass they're not loading, I'll consider trading something or other. :D

[SoCalShooter]

I own a tactical rake. :) Brass aint cheap and all those who are not willing to pick up their own are going to get picked up by me. Of course I always ask first.

[Smokey Joe]

A friend of mine once asked a very rich acquaintance how much money was "enough." After due consideration, the answer came back: "Just a little bit more."

This would seem to apply equally to brass ratting, or, for that matter, to any kind of collecting.

So, Noxx, you're as normal as a peanut butter sandwich.

[lee n. field]

Everything that's reloadable. I pitch the steel and aluminum stuff, and anything fired out of a Glock.

[Hawk]

I bring back only the stuff I just shot and only revolver or some rifle brass.

I still shoot more semi-auto handgun than revolver but that's factory ammo with the brass mostly unrecoverable.

The AR brass is an exception - swept up and tossed. 'Course I'm still shooting Swiss berdan primed stuff - anybody dumpster-diving that stuff is in for a surprise.

[351 WINCHESTER]

Get as much as you want and remember to share and share alike.

[The Bushmaster]

Tactical rake/sealed beam flood light and chaff screen...If it's there...When you look again, it's GONE!!!
"Say...Do you want your brass?"

"Why n..."

"Would you be so kind as to pick up your foot and move over there? Thank you."

Me? A "Brassrat"?? Nawwww....

[Walkalong]

I used to hunt around until "NO BRASS WAS LEFT BEHIND", but I have mellowed out a little and don't hunt 30 minutes for those last two pieces of brass anymore. :)

[RustyFN]

I take everything I find that is half way shiny including calibers I don't have a gun for.
Rusty

[frogomatic]

i take everything, old or new, shiny, or not, even rimfire cases. Any brass that I do not or cannot reload, gets sent to my buddy to be melted down, and formed into new cases.

[JohnMcD348]

I did my first range rat run a couple of weeks ago and was wondering to myself the whoel time when Enough was Enough. I picked up all of mine and then some. As I was going through I found a few more that looked OK so I threw it in also. There were alot of people who stopped by to fire off a few rounds and left without sweeping up so I took it with me also. I don't think I'll go WAY out of my way to get brass but what I find along the way I'll throw into my bag and take it home for a tumble or two.

[scrat]

i pick up all i can. then i sort them out and share to others. they often make good trades

[FLORIDA KEVIN]

you guys are too much !!wy don't you just get a butterfly net and sneek up on the guys while they are shooting!! :)

[Guncrazy45]

If my wife knew how clean the range was when I left it, she'd make me sweep more at home.

Yes, I really do have a broom and dustbin as part of my range gear.

Come to think of it, she could probably get me to sweep more often if she'd just sprinkle some brass around the house. It probably wouldn't be too good for the hardwood, though.

At any rate, I just bought one of those rolling racks with the 12 bins from Sam's club. I'm working on filling it up.

[W.E.G.]

you guys are too much !!wy don't you just get a butterfly net and sneek up on the guys while they are shooting!!

I tried that for a while,... but it just wasn't efficient enough.

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd7/rkba2da/humor/brassthief1.jpg

So now I have one of those scooters that is designed for handicapped people to get around the grocery store to buy cheetos and chocolate milk.

I rigged up an extra 24-volt battery on it, with a power inverter. Its all neatly mounted on a scooter-trailer with a wet-dry shop vac. That way I can scoot around the range and vacuum up any stray brass. I rigged a rifle rack on the scooter too. Fits my SKS perfectly! I can reverse the suction on the shop vac, and blow the brass out the nozzle into a bin in the back of my pickup truck.

[Linear Thinker]

Proud member of the honorable ancient order of the Brass Rat, and have a full 55Gal drum of unsorted brass to prove it.
LT

[cpttango30]

Before the big ebay shut down. I was planning on gathering as much as I could and cleaning it then selling it on there. So right now I have 500 9mm 500 40 smith and some other stuff. I grab everything I can get my grubby hands on. If your going to throw money away then I am going to pick it up.:neener:

[FLORIDA KEVIN]

you are right about throwing money away !! I just wish somebody would make an auto loader in 454 casull so i would have a shot at some free brass !:what:

[Nanook]

Well, I have a five gallon bucket each of 9mm, .40, and .45. That's enough brass for two lifetimes if you think about it.

I still pick up most of what I see, and all that I reload myself if I can find it.

I'm always on the hunt for more .38 and .357, though. I don't have near enough of those two.

And rifle brass is good to come across. Usually right before hunting season, when the yearly sighting in rituals are performed is when you can find goodly amounts of rifle brass. Usually still in the factory box.

[rhubarb]

Tactical rake. Not a bad idea.

I for one only pick up the brass for the calibers that I reload that is still shiny. That and the brass for the calibers I will reload in the future as long as it's shiny. That and the dull brass. That and the ones I have to hold up to the light to see if it's tarnished brass or steel. That and the brass that I can sell to buy primers, bullets, and powder. That's all.

I'm a member of a private range and I'm sure there are folks who pay their membership just for the privilege of brass scrounging. There was a guy sitting in front of the pistol line this evening picking up .22 LR brass. Poor guy. Bet he would have been excited if he'd gotten there a half hour earlier and saw the hundreds of .223 that I'd picked up.

[koja48]

A) There is no such thing as "enough brass."

B) EVERYBODY at my range reloads and if there is someone who doesn't, I've never showed-up right after he/she left.

[colt.45]

i know some people at the range:neener: i get to wear my own fake staff shirt, have a name badge and pick through the 55 gallon drums as i please, as much as i please. hell, jordan said i could have a damn bucket if i could carry it to my truck.(no way in hell) of course... ill be working there a little during the school year and next summer. guess what my job will be... BRASS SWEEPER!!!:neener::neener::neener:

[rantingredneck]

I pick up every usable piece of .45ACP I can find. Most of the .40 I can find (for sale and trade fodder), and any .38/357. .45 Colt is rare as hen's teeth at my range. Never see any .44 Mag or .41 Mag laying around. I stopped picking up 9mm once I got a couple thousand pieces stashed. Now I just pick up what I shoot there. Still haven't started loading 9mm yet. I pick up all my rifle brass and any I find in .243 or .30-06. I pick up all the .223 I can find (and I don't own one).

[Ala Dan]

a tacticool rake with a flashlight~! :D:D:D

[FieroCDSP]

I've only ever come across two 44 Mags...I still have them. I couldn't figure out if they were cases or shotglasses.

[Smokey Joe]

Fiero--Just wait'll you run across a .480 Smith & Wesson! And if that doesn't stun you, wait for a .375 H&H, or a 7mm STW! Ye gods, they look like they came out of a howitzer!

If I can accumulate 20 or more of a belted magnum brass, I put it in a baggie and take it to a gun show. Results in selling these have been so-so, but you get more for reloadable brass as reloadable brass then you do for scrap. Obviously. Sometimes I can make back the price of admission, then it's a free show! :)

Nobody (so far) @ my club has brought a .50 BMG to shoot. And they'd have to be both crazy and rich to not reload that, so that's one I don't expect ever to find lying there in the grass, winking yellowly at me...Ahh, but I can hope!

As for selling brass for scrap, did you know that pistol and rifle primers are all-brass, too?? I'm saving up a bucket of them to sell to the metals buyer, but it'll take a while.

[glockman19]

I take all my own and as much of calibers I have. I Always pick up .357, 44 mag and .45 ACP and as much .308/7.62 & .223/5.56 as I can find.

...and I don't even reload yet. :D

[B yond]

Take it all. If you don't shoot a particular caliber and you have found a lot of brass in that caliber, that just means you need to buy another gun in that caliber.:evil:

[evan price]

I am not a "Brass rat". I am "The Brass Badger"

Recently I built my own magnetic separator out of a bunch of deceased car stereo magnets and a perforated plastic trash can mounted up in a pair of pillow block bearings with a 3/4" pipe for an axle. The magnets I stick to the outside of the can using a steel plate that goes on the inside of the can and magnetizes. That times ten magnets. Then I dump in 5-gallon buckets of used brass. Spin the can. Oh yeah, lay a plastic tarp under the contraption. The brass and aluminum and nickle cases fall through. The steel stays stuck inside. Pull the magnets off. The steel plates lose their charge. Turn the plastic can over into the scrap bin.

Working on another one tha twill let me categorize rifle case vs pistol cases by length and diameter. .223 is the one that causes my troubles.

Tactical rake? Heck, I need a tactical snow shovel.

This weekend's haul was two (5) gallon buckets full. Belted magnum rifle cases, 7mm, 375 Ruger, 300 Weatherby, .308, .223, .243, .270, .30-30, .30-06, .22-250, .303, x39, x54R, .30-M1, you name it.
.45LC, .44Mag, .357, .38, .45 GAP, .357 SIG, .40S&W, 10mm, 9mm, .380, .32, .25, various .22 and .17's, it took me three hours to clean the range.

I'm well on my way to filling my SECOND 5-gallon bucket of 9mm.

Scrap brass is worth bucks. I take all the brass I see, even the ones that hit the lawn mower blade, or the green nasty muddy ones, or the ones from the burn barrel. It all sells! I mix in my primers from reloading and all the berdan/split cases I can't reload. MONEY...

[jeepmor]

Reduce, reuse, recycle. I pick up all I can, but where I shoot, I could spend a week cleaning up the mess because it's a public outdoor range frequented by people who think plastic, steel and brass will just pick itself up. I pick up mine and all that I can. No range rake, butterfly net or shop vac....just yet.

jeepmor

[jlficken]

If I didn't live 15 miles from my range I would be there every night scrounging for brass. I will search for 15 minutes for 1 piece of my 308 brass but I put alot of time into case prep on those. My thought is that brass is like gold and I need all that I can get! If anyone wants to get rid of some 45, 308, 223 let me know and I will even pay shipping :)

[tasco 74]

brass is getting really hard to come by at the public range i go to.. useable brass that is .. i used to be able to find .38s .357 mags and lots of 9mm brass.. there is a dumpster on site i have gone dumpster diving for brass there before... i don't know if there are more people reloading or just more scrappers in this part of the country.. makes it hard to find good brass though..

[U.S.SFC_RET]

I confess, I too am a brass rat. the loyal order thereof. BRASS RAT
I will trade off what I can. Reload what I can and Make a brass cannon off of the rest. Life is good.:)

[Owens]

Tactical rake & flashlight? does it come with a tactical wheel..... (doh!)

[KaiserBen]

My range is indoors and staffed, so they clean it up about every hour or so (or more often if there are several shooters on the line). So, if I need more of a particular caliber, I go to the front desk and make a donation to the youth club and get some brass. Recently, I asked for 7.5x55 Swiss brass, and got ~175 pieces (once fired PRVI) for $10. :)

[tbtrout]

I walk the firing line and pick up anything I see where someone is not shooting. A lot of times other shooters telll me to help myself to their brass as well. I pick up everything because I will eventually have a gun chambered in a caliber I do not have yet.

[GlowinPontiac]

i shoot at what is basically an abandoned sand pit where there are junked cars and all sorts of debris laying around. along with plenty of brass. ive been keeping .223/.40/.45/.357/.38
there is TONS of 9mm but to me its not worth the time to dig them out of the sand then have to pour the sand out of the cases later on.

but i can get 75cents per pound for fired brass so i might just start scooping them up to cash in.

[jungleroy]

I only stop looking after i have fired alot if I have a pressing appointment to go to. I never seen to find enough brass. I look at it like people are leaving 1, 2, or 5 cent pieces laying around and if I pick them all up thats money I don't have to shell out later.

[Noxx]

I look at it like people are leaving 1, 2, or 5 cent pieces laying around and if I pick them all up thats money I don't have to shell out later.

That's how I explained it to the wife. Metal prices being what they are, it's a bit like standing in a field full of nickels.

[scout26]

I'm a shotgunner, so that makes me a hull-whore, instead of a brass rat.


I'll see your tactical rake and raise you an assualt wheelbarrow. (Yes, we have one at my club.)

Here it is in action:

http://www.thehighroad.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=27062&d=1122653714

[trueblue1776]

Scout, nice contraption. But as a true scab-kneed brass whore I know, the sweepers miss about 5% of the brass. 5% is unacceptable. :D

[woodfiler]

I pick up most handgun brass even if i don't reload it. I will trade or give
it to one of my realoader freinds. They will usually reciprocate and give
me what i reload. It works out real good.

Most clubs including mine will take it to a scrap yard. I figure we can make
better use of it.

Enough brass is when you run out of room to store it.

wood

[RustyFN]

I shoot at a club that has an outdoor range with six pistol bays and a 300 yard rifle range. I don't leave until there is no more brass to pick up.
Rusty

[Floppy_D]

I offer to clean up after people, and let them figure out why later. It sounds less like begging. My biggest take was last month at the local range, when the guy working the counter said "you could fill up your backpack with brass from the barrel, for all I care".

Needless to say, I spent 6+ hours sorting. :D

[Jack A. Sol]

you can never have enough brass

[Vic303]

Definite Brass Rat here! We even take our kidlets to the range to pick up spent cases for us. They're too little to differentiate brass from steel case consistently, but they have sharp eyes and willing hands!

[sargenv]

Was a time when I was picking up calibers of brass I didn't own to fuel the cartridges I did own. 45 brass sorted can go for up to $.07 each, get a few thousand and that picks up for bullets, primers, or powder. Now that ebay no longer allows firearms related sales, I may take the brass I have, sort it and post on a forum what I want for it or take it to auction arms and let the market pay me whatever it'll bear. I did sort out a bunch of 32 S&W long, like 500-1000 pieces and did not own anything to fire it. I picked up a model 31-2 for $200 just so I could use that brass. It's a fun little plinker. This was before California had it's asinine "safety" list. I have buckets and buckets of 223 brass that I do load for, but I'm debatng cleaning it up and selling it ready to load for like $65/k. Yes I do have some spare time to do all this.

[jamz]

Definite Brass Rat here! We even take our kidlets to the range to pick up spent cases for us. They're too little to differentiate brass from steel case consistently, but they have sharp eyes and willing hands!

I hope you make 'em wash their hands really well before they eat or stick their fingers into their mouth! (lead).

I lucked out at a local indoor range a while ago, was there at closing time, and they told me to take what I wanted- I swept the entire place and got about a 5 gal bucket's worth.

I'm a medium-brass rat.

[Vic303]

Yep, we do. Carry about 6Lof wash water & wipes for their hands.

Luckily, as it is an outdoor range, they're likely more at risk from the fireants than the brass.

[flynlr]

i was looking at area clubs to join and found a good one . the membership was paid for after just a couple of trips . via the brass I gathered up.

[callgood]

I didn't check "I own a tactical rake with a flashlight...." but I took a long lunch today and went to the range. While I was picking up my brass and anything else I could find I thought, "If I had a metal detector I bet I could double the haul." (Sandy terrain, I know I step on some and mash them out of sight).

I bought my first AR when I came across 12 Colt mags in a trunk in my garage. Might as well get a rifle to go with them...........

I took a class two weekends ago and came home with a .50cal can full of .45ACP, at least that much 9mm, and 700 .40S&W, a caliber I've poo-pooed in the past. Now I'm thinking if I had been scarfing up .40S&W brass all these years instead of cursing it I could have reached critical mass and justified buying something to shoot the stuff out of.

"Till my back gives out.":D

[buenhec]

This guy at last weeks USPSA shoot put on a plastic glove and probably filled his plastic bag with 1000 casings off the floor between stages. He did look a little nutty but no one said anything. Probably worth his time, but I have a little more pride than that.

[LotI]

I pick up everything centerfire then sort when I get home. I buy cat litter in plastic jugs (8# of Tidy Cat crystals). When empty, I fill them with clean, sorted brass. I currently have almost two of .45 and .40 and just started on my second jug of 9mm.

Out of curiousity, I weighed one of the jugs full of 9mm and it weighed 40.4 pounds. I then counted out the 9mm empties until I got to 1# of weight. It's 116 9mm/1#. The container weighs a little less than 1/2 lb empty.

That's over 4600 9mm empties in one container. I think this will take a while to shoot. Plus, I still have 500 primed and ready to load!

Oh yeah, I just picked up 16 pounds of mixed brass last Wednesday that I have to clean and sort. I think I need an assistant!

[Vern Humphrey]

I find the hand of fate at work here. When I found a cache of .45 ACP, I knew God wanted me to have an M1911. When I found .45 Colt, I knew God wanted me to have a Ruger Blackhawk. When I found ,22 Hornet, I knew God wanted me to get that M82 Kimber.

When I found 9mm, I knew the Devil is a deceiver.:p

[res45]

I shoot at a public range,I pick all my own stuff up and anything I can use that other have left behind. I carry a broom and dust pan along usually and a few trash bags for trash, everyone that uses it is suppose to help keep it clean but you know how that goes. I usually sweep up and take all the 22 brass with me to recycle and leave the bigger stuff I can't use in the brass bucket for others to look through.

[Noxx]

When I found 9mm, I knew the Devil is a deceiver.

Them's fightin' words!!

[jhansman]

Even though I voted that I only pick up what I shoot, the range master at my range is also a buddy. When the Army came out to test rifles, he scarfed up all that good LC brass (those boys love to shoot) and let me have about 1k pieces of it. Should keep me for a few years.

[evan price]

Hmm, I measured my 5-gallon bucket of 9mm brass and it weighed in about 74.4 pounds. over 8600 9mm cases. Not bad. Just started my second bucket for 9mm since this one is full.

Wonder what .45 weighs per pound? Got 3/4 of a bucket of those as well.

[Smokey Joe]

Evan price--Wonder what .45 weighs per pound?Probably about 16 ounces, or 454 grams, or 7000 grains. :D

[Walkalong]

Weights and measures...

Evan price--

Wonder what .45 weighs per pound?

Probably about 16 ounces, or 454 grams, or 7000 grains. :D

Stepped into that one Evan. :rolleyes:

[The Bushmaster]

That's always had me stumped too...Just how much does a pound of .45's weigh???:D

[Cosmoline]

I only take the stuff I know I just spit out. But there always seems to be some guy wandering around grabbing up random brass.

[katastrof0]

Considering the brass prices nowadays i pick up just about everything except 22, 9mm and 40S&W.

I even take trips to the range JUST to pick up brass... Though.. Im not proud of it:D

BB John

[Vern Humphrey]

That's always had me stumped too...Just how much does a pound of .45's weigh???
Some people say one thing, some say another

But empty .45 cases run about 77 to the pound.

[alohanole]

I just joined an outdoor range near the house. The other day as we were walking around doing the safety briefing, I spotted some shiny nickel rifle cases calling me like moths to a flame. The range (long-range rifle) was cold and we were the only ones there. I scored about 20 7mm Rem Mag and 25 30-06 nickel cases (Remington headstamp). Reading this thread, I think I'll go to the range and shoot a few rounds, I mean scrounge for some brass! Is there any cure for this disease? :confused:

[The Bushmaster]

No...And no halfway house either...You will take range brass to the grave clutched in your hand...And a smile...

[Noxx]

I dunno what the count per pound is on .45 brass, but I know the level-full bucket in my garage clocked in at just over 84 lbs.

[Vern Humphrey]

That would be almost 6,500 cases.

[SDDL-UP]

In the past couple of weeks I've scrounged over 100 rounds of both .270 Winchester and .30-06 Springfield once fired nice and shiney brass, and A LOT of other stuff too, 7mm Rem. Mag., 300 Win. Mag., etc. A lot of hunters hitting the range that don't reload. I pick up everything! Most of it I can and do reload but some of it I'll just give away or recycle. Brass is way too expensive to just get tossed.

[amlevin]

I come back from the range with so much brass my wife is begging me to join a 12 step program for brass rats.:what:

I have more brass than I can store under my 12', 5 shelf workbench.:rolleyes:

My great grandchildren will still be shooting reloads made from this brass.

[strat81]

"I have so much brass, Olin calls me for raw materials."
"I have so much brass, The Beastie Boys wrote a song about me."

[PTK]

I pick up all my brass for reloading. I pick up all additional brass that no one else wants for scrap. Win-win.

[strat81]

"I have so much brass, Olin calls me for raw materials."
"I have so much brass, The Beastie Boys wrote a song about me."

[PTK]

Double post.

[achildofthesky]

quote-"This guy at last weeks USPSA shoot put on a plastic glove and probably filled his plastic bag with 1000 casings off the floor between stages. He did look a little nutty but no one said anything. Probably worth his time, but I have a little more pride than that."

It likely WAS worth his time and I take every piece I can but I ALWAYS, ALWAYS ask first about brass near shooters. I have had numerous folks get brass from their cars and trucks that they were saving but don't reload. I also volunteer tools and supplies like spare targets, hanger pins and other stuff to those needing help. What goes around is helped coming around by me where I can...

5 5 gallon buckets of 9mm, 223, 45, mixed rifle spell: a new relading setup, new rifles, bullets, primers, powder tires and fuel for the car, new rifles, xmas gifts and just plain $$$ for the stuff I don't reload.

Free money, no name, must be mine...

Patty
an truely shameless, totally unrepentant brass monger

[Noxx]

Picked up over 400 cases for .40 this morning while using the range the police prefer.

I don't even own a .40. May have to address that.

[amlevin]

Picked up over 400 cases for .40 this morning while using the range the police prefer.

I don't even own a .40. May have to address that.

Even if you don't buy a .40, the brass is worth $1.32/lb. Helps pay for the primers, powder, etc.

[FieroCDSP]

Sounds like a good reason to buy an M&P 40, to me.

[brasskeeper]

My Name is brasskeeper and I'm a brassaholic :o

[Master Blaster]

you can never be too rich, too thin, or have enough brass in the calibers you reload.:p

[Walkalong]

Sounds like there is a consensus. Never enough brass. :D

[Smokey Joe]

Childofthesky--I also volunteer tools and supplies like spare targets, hanger pins and other stuff to those needing help. What goes around is helped coming around by me where I can...Yep, that's how! Need tape or stapler for targets? Need a target? Need a gunsmith screwdriver? Vice-grip? Got 'em in my car, just a sec! Need a suggestion like "Buy yrself an ABC's of Reloading?" Happy to oblige! You got some unwanted brass for me? Nice! No? Well, I'll still help you. It'll come home to roost somehow. Hey, thanks, everybody's happy.

[evan price]

My brass scrounging once yielded me a nearly-free gun.

Of course it needs a firing pin repaired.

Old timer had been carrying it forever & didn't know what to do with it...

Saw me grubbing brass, asked about reloading, gave me a bunch of his .45 cases, then said, Hey, do you like to tinker, check this out...

$10 for a Pieper vest-pocket .25 circa 1947. All steel. Kinda neet.

[FLORIDA KEVIN]

I think smokey joe has it right ! do what you can ! not just what you have to do ! help people whenever you can ! it will come back around !

[SDDL-UP]

I've been given literally THOUSANDS of rounds of 40 S&W brass because I was the only one of my friends that owned one. I save stuff for them that I don't have like 44 Mag. and 30-30, but I have most calibers they do.

It looks like someone probably burned up the barrel of their 264 Winchester on Friday. I picked up 57 rounds of once fired brass, and just knowing how some shooter are, they were probably there for a whole hour. It probably melted itself to the case when they put it away!