Brass Organization Tips?

[jaybrown]

hey guys, going to hit the range soon and wanted to know if you had any tricks for keeping your brass separated from the other floor ejects. I was thinking of making a sharpie red tick mark on the head of all my brass so I knew it was mine. What do you guys do?

 

[ocabj]

The only time I mark my own brass is when shooting handgun. I use Sharpie marker on the headstamp. One or two lines works fine. Usually I'm the only one who even marks brass.

As far as rifle, I never do it. Obviously with a bolt gun or break open, there's no need to chase brass. With the Garands and ARs, I usually put up a net anyway to prevent brass flying on the guy to my right.

 

[jaybrown]

Net?

Thanks for the imput. I like the sharpie idea so Im going to do that. Now you said something about a net? Is this something that you made or is it something that can be purchased? Thanks, Jay.

 

[ocabj]

My club's range has shooting benches with overhead cover. The range has nets you can borrow and clamp to the ceiling. Then I just use weights (sandbags, ammo boxes, etc) to hold the bottom of the hanging net to the bench or ground.

 

[Sunray]

It's hard to beat the cost of a Sharpie. Especially as it works well. An 'X' on the case head will do nicely, but add the tick too. Using a marker isn't unusual. Mind you, it also depends on the rifle. An AR, for example, can sling brass a long way. Some rifles will create a nice wee pile of brass all in the same area.

 

[Ares45]

I used to mark my brass with a blue permanent marker until I got tired of cleaning blue ooze off the bolt face and out of the firing pin assembly. The permanently blue fingers got old too. Now I take a 10x15' tarp to the range, shoot all I can stand, then fold up the tarp and funnel the brass into a ziplok bag. Zero dirt, Zero grass, Zero other peoples leftovers.

 

[rchernandez]

Use a brass catcher. See: www.cm-machine.com. Or make you own with pvc piping and a laundry bag.

 

[callgood]

Two tips if you build a pvc/laundry mesh bag catcher (I have one and it saves a lot of chasing).

Put a couple of pieces of 3/8" rebar in the base pieces (those that rest on your bench).

Dry fit the vertical legs. You may want to change the heigth later on or fine tune things.

These make for good semi auto pr. Some bolt gun guys don't appreciate being pelted with hot brass. Go figure.

I like the marker idea. Recently I was working up a .223 load and picked up the brass. 50 Remington cases had their necks turned. Guess what brand I used for fouling shots? I had to measure the neck walls to figure out which ones came out of the commercial box. I have a marker in my range box now!