Snow Brass

PCCUSNRET · Feb 3, 2016

This is what I found at the range on Monday after the snow had mostly melted. Just finished cleaning the 9 mm, 357 Mag and 38 Special brass. Will wait until I have a full load before cleaning the 45ACP and 40 S&W. I had planned on only staying long enough to try a few reloads and ended up spending over an hour picking up brass. There have been several shooters since the snow but no way to retrieve their brass until it melted.

IROCZ · Feb 3, 2016

Nice haul!

horsemen61 · Feb 3, 2016

PO2Hammer · Feb 3, 2016

Score! Looks pretty good.

We just got blasted with snow, and I don't think it's going to melt anytime soon, but when it does, I'll be out there kickin' the dirt.

Toprudder · Feb 3, 2016

Awesome. Picking up brass is my exercise.

BullRunBear · Feb 3, 2016

Congrats on a great haul. Being a reloader and a cheap so and so, I can't understand people who don't keep their brass. Being tall, not too flexible and a lazy so and so, I prefer revolvers so I don't have to chase the brass all over the place.

Jeff

Hondo 60 · Feb 3, 2016

Good score!

rodregier · Feb 3, 2016

And if you want to keep you brass while shooting in the snow, use a tarp

rsrocket1 · Feb 3, 2016

Yup, a couple of the free Harbor Freight tarps or a rollout plastic painter's tarp works wonders at keeping the brass from sizzling through the snow or getting into the mud.

PCCUSNRET · Feb 3, 2016

rodregier said:
And if you want to keep you brass while shooting in the snow, use a tarp

That's a good idea! I normally shoot revolvers or move indoors until Spring. I was trying out some 30 Carbine and 327 Magnum loads and they tend to bother other shooters at our indoor range. This was the main reason I was outside (besides it was a balmy 60+ degrees here on Monday) and finding all this brass was definitely a bonus.

DBEAM · Feb 3, 2016

Being in the piedmont of NC I don't see a whole lot of snow. I tried shooting over a patch left in the shaded side of a silo a week are so ago thinking maybe they would sit on top of the snow making them easy to spot but suspecting they might sink some due to melt. Every single one melted its way down an inch or so through the snow till they bottomed out on the concrete leaving nice 45 acp sized holes. Was able to find every round with a little digging but it really would have sucked in deep snow.

PCCUSNRET · Feb 3, 2016

DBEAM said:
Being in the piedmont of NC I don't see a whole lot of snow. I tried shooting over a patch left in the shaded side of a silo a week are so ago thinking maybe they would sit on top of the snow making them easy to spot but suspecting they might sink some due to melt. Every single one melted its way down an inch or so through the snow till they bottomed out on the concrete leaving nice 45 acp sized holes. Was able to find every round with a little digging but it really would have sucked in deep snow.

My fingers were numb by the time I got finished.

FROGO207 · Feb 4, 2016

This is one of the first signs of spring!

BUT your timing has to be better than the other reloaders.

col.lemat · Feb 4, 2016

Somebody found a brass gold mine. Congrats!!!

Scooter22 · Feb 4, 2016

I always stop by the range after a snow melt to harvest the winter crop.

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