Finding Brass: Does Anyone Else get a Little High

You're not alone. I just wish more folks shot where I do.

I shot 240 rounds at the range yesterday and came home with 321 cases. Thank the warm weather and some snow melt . . .

It sure takes the edge off what I burned through in bullets, powder and primers!

My buddy and I are like little kids when we hit the combat range and find .45ACP brass. Imagine our anger last Sunday when we picked-up about 75 cases and all but 3 were Federal NT with those damn useless little primers!!!

I did for a long, long time. But now my "feel good" is from helping out one of my new shooting buddies that just took up reloading by being able to give them some brass. Last one I helped out with 500 plus pcs. of 45 ACP all the same head stamp.

My buddy and I are like little kids when we hit the combat range and find .45ACP brass. Imagine our anger last Sunday when we picked-up about 75 cases and all but 3 were Federal NT with those damn useless little primers!!!

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Whats wrong with those, keep them seperate and reload them with small pistol primers.

Nah, plenty of normal .45 brass. But if you want, I'll tell you where they are

Last saturday at the range in Maryville, my eye was pulled to the 'brass bucket' by an unusual shape. Somebody with more money than sense had been shooting .45 Colt. A lot of it. Hornady. And he left his brass! I felt like a kid at Xmas. Made off with just under twenty clean cases.

My usual Sunday stroll is through the three local gravel pits. In the lastyear alone I have filled at least a 5 gal bucket with used brass. If I cant use it I swap it or give it away to other reloaders. Last week someone shot two boxes of 308 and 25 270 Win. Yeha...

It always makes me happy to find brass. I've been known to pickup brass that I don't reload for or know anyone who does.

I was never the kind of guy to dumpster dive......until I started reloading.

Now, the trash can is my first stop.

I went to the range today to get brass only brought my gun to look like I had a purpose. Brought my broom and bucket. I shot 30rds 9mm and brought now 400 9mm, 100 45, 200 .40, 200 .223,50 308 and 100 30-30. You are not alone

Not only do I get high, I get downright envious of the guys with so much brass it's become passe for them.

I shot 30rds 9mm and brought now 400 9mm, 100 45, 200 .40, 200 .223,50 308 and 100 30-30. You are not alone

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Where do you get so lucky at. At the range were I shoot, it is not very often when I am able to pick up brass. It don't stay on the ground very long.

I always look for it, but it has been getting rarer and rarer. Seems like everyone is policing it up now.

I go to a very busy public range in a national forest and there is always brass there.

I love the range finds. Last week someone had shot about FIFTY rounds of 270win with factory loads! They left it in the brass bucket and I renecked it and sized it to .308 just because i could

Also as someone mentioned earlier, someone with more money than sense had let loose with probably some 45ACP self defense ammo (must have been a new christmas gun) and I got about 30 nickle plated once fired cases laying in the pistol range

For some reason, sometimes I spend more time combing the outdoor pistol area for range finds than I do shooting...must be the reloading sickness.
I also find myself shooting factory loads either I bought or were given to me JUST to get the brass so I can put my own loads in it...lol
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Well you probably don't have it too bad until you start buying guns to match the brass you find at the range. My latest find was forty 22-250 cases in their boxes and unfortunately I have nothing to reload them with or for. We have been having a problem with a large number of coyotes at our deer camp and I hear a 22-250 makes an excellent varmint rifle Anyone trade brass? I have a bunch Win 300 Magnum brass that I will never reload.

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Oh, yeah. If I don't get more than I started with, it's a bad day. Finding .308 or revolver brass is the bestest. Thr bigger the caliber, the happier.

So far I have picked up, 357, 44mag, 9mm, 45, 223, 22-250, 30-30, 308, 30-06, 243, 300 Win Mag, 280, and anything else that's reloadable. I only reload for 308 and 45. LOL

"Well you probably don't have it too bad until you start buying guns to match the brass you find at the range."

Uh-oh. Don't say that! I've been merrily picking up everything from .32 on up to .44mag, even a few I haven't identified yet. I only have a 9mm and .45, I can't afford all those new guns. Help me. Is there a brass anonymous somewhere? Well, at least I haven't ventured out of the pistol range - yet.

I really hate the brass hounds at our matches. They clean the bays out before I've even had a chance to police my own brass. Its so bad, trying to keep one eye on the RO who's scoring my stage, count all my mags to make sure I didn't forget one, and pick up brass, that I've given up on the brass.

Now, I just go over to the "pistol range" and pick up all the brass thats left on the ground by the folks who are too rich to reload and too lazy to police their brass.

I was never the kind of guy to dumpster dive......until I started reloading.

Now, the trash can is my first stop.

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esheato where do you shoot? Devil's Mountian?

Greetings,

I get excited when I find 44mag or 500S&W shells in the buckets.
But I get a lot more fun when I can help a friend with some brass. I just sent a flat fee box to a friend with all kind of rifle brass I picked up in a public outside range.

I identified it to the best I can by the ones I know were once fired.

He'll give me something in exchange, but I did not do it for that. Just helping a fellow shooter is enough to make me smile.

Thank you

Every once in awhile someone shoots a large amount of .38 Special stuff at our club and leaves the empties.
One day about a year ago my Grandson and I picked up over 400 rounds of very shiney, once fired Federals.