Shooting range etiquette: Picking up brass

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I was once at a range the they tried to demand that I remove my brass after shooting from the moon clips I had it in and put it in their brass bucket. Haven't been back since.
 
Picking it up

The outdoor range near my home in PA requires that shooters remove their fired cases. Not all people do this and, on a busy Saturday, the result is a mess. See below.
I supervise a range down in NYC... a private club....members are required to sweep up after each session. Brass is either taken home or placed in a barrel for recycling.
Outdoors again.....it has been my experience over the last year or so that brass left on the ground is rapidly picked up by metal scroungers. There are a number of men that I see regularly who come to the range, hover in the background, empty can in hand, and pick up brass left on the ground by shooters who depart w/o policing their point. Ok with me. Keeps the range clean.
 
Indoor range where I used to live asked you to sweep all brass forward of the line under the counter. They claim it's because they have limited lanes, however when I'm paying for my lane by the hour how I spend the hour should be my business.

Strangely they didn't have rules against steel cased ammo, so that's what I would shoot; that and .22LR pistols.


New range is free, outdoor, and they ask you to police your own brass. Brooms, pans, and buckets are provided. I'm often asked if I reload (I don't yet) and then asked if I minded someone picking up my brass. I say as long as they pick up my steel and .22LR, too, I don't mind at all. Works for me.
 
It varies.

Outdoor ranges, especially the ones run by the state conservation organization, are pretty much just have self-policing policies in place: pick up after yourself, whether that means you keep the brass or dump it in the brass bin.

Indoor rangers are different because they're privately owned and there are other expenses involved in running them. Some don't allow picking up any brass, some only your own, some they don't care. Usually their policies are posted, but asking will clarify.

I usually will pick up all my own brass to keep, making a polite effort not to disturb the brass from other people, and sweep up the rest for general cleanliness. A lot of time, other shooters will spontaneously say I can have their brass, but you can always ask. Some don't care or find it a good trade off as a way of letting someone else clean up all their spent brass.
 
I used to work in the LGS that had an indoor range. We'd have idiots on their hand & knees picking up their empties in front of the firing line while other guys were still shooting. Or guys get in fights over whose brass it was.

While I believe Darwin's theories should be allowed to eliminate the mental midgets from our population and increase the collective intelligence however slightly, the insurance carrier felt otherwise
 
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