Brass thieves on the range - your thoughts??

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Never had a problem with someone trying to get my brass before it hits the ground. There was a guy with a .458 SOCOM at the range Sunday who had the same bag shown above catching his hulls. I imagine he'd have stretched the neck of anyone reaching for one of his empties.

I was shooting Berdan primed 7.62x54R that day; the buzzards could have any of mine they wanted.

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Rabbit
 
I own a .458 SOCOM and I would stretch their necks too.
That brass cost me almost $500 for 1000 pieces.
I wil spend as much time as nessessary to find every single piece of it I fire.
 
I've always had people ask if they can have my brass, they pick up all my 7.62X54R and .30-30 and I pick up the big piles of .45 ACP :)
 
Fortunately I haven't encountered a knucklehead like swingset did.
But I recall a few times that it was impossible for me to find small amounts of brass.
Figured it was just my eyesight, now I wonder what went on behind me.:confused:

If I do happen to sweep up someone else's brass in my area, I make a point of asking if they want it before deciding what to do with it. Just seems like common courtesy.

Larry
 
"You can take my spent .223, but you can never take my .303!"- William Wallace


i make a point of keeping my .303, since i'm going to start reloading for it.


anyone who tries to take my .303 brass gets a talking to. forcefully.
 
one of the things we're doing at our range is buckets set out for differnt (common) calibers, if you don't want your brass dump it in the right bucket and leave it for the brass rats.

but if someone started picking up my .303 brass like they did to swing it would be "thats my property and that'll be a buck a case"
 
It WAS a public range you know! Don't you know that all your personal property becomes public property once you enter a public range?:D
 
The Ultimate Brassrat!

There's one character at our club that carries scrounging to it's ultimate idiocy:rolleyes: = He pops the tops off the "Dudbuckets" = 5gal cans with lids fitted and holes poked in the middle for disposal of dud rounds of all calibers from .22Short to .45ACP, and 'saves' " The Good Stuff":rolleyes: - to SHOOT! :eek: The general consensus is the fool will sooner or later "Darwinate" himself.
There are others too who will scrounge off the ground - one wonders what the devil they _DO_ with Berdan primed brass:p
 
Not fair, but I can't resist....

I just lose the occasional case in the long grass, which I should have had the "boss" mow, but then, she's on flower planting now, and you can only go so far, safely.

Come on, the Free State Project!
 
I find it polite to pick up other people's brass for them, particularly if it's interfering with my prone shots in a match. Me at the last match: "Who's got the 30-06 Lake City?" or "4 pieces of .308 federal match here!"
Several times, I've had folks give me all I could carry,just for helping them out. Taking another mans brass without his permission though.... downright thievery.
I'll also admit to scrounging the outdoor rifle brass bucket, but I'll never touch that lead powder dusted handgun brass bucket on the indoor range.
 
We have a jerk at the range we USED TO shoot at. He is a self-appointed volunteer range officer and wears a little orange beanie. He says that this orange beanie entitles him to everyone's brass and he will BAN anyone from the range that he wants to and accuses people who pick up thier own brass of "stealing" jhis brass. He also picks up people's M-1 en-bloc clips threatening to ban them if they object.:cuss: Wife and I have quit going there as range management can't or won't do anything about him. He doesn't reload. He sells the brass to local commercial reloaders at gunshows.
 
Never had anyone try to steal my brass while I was right there and if I left the range without finding it all, someone else was welcome to it. I do try to pick up my empties for reloading though and can get a little overboard looking the more expensive varieties.

Back when I was shooting High Power rifle('90-'95) I got frustrated trying to find my brass in the range grass. Ohio Rifle & Pistol Assoc. uses the ranges at Camp Perry and any one who has shot there much can tell you the grass can be somewhat long at times. I went to Radio Shack and bought thier "kids" metal detector($19.95, bright orange, 9 volt battery) and used it to locate my errant cases. Took some ribbing from some of the other shooters over it, but also had more than a few ask where I got it.

Don in Ohio
 
EN-BLOC THIEVERY??????

Now, brass is bad enough, but if some self-appointed rangemaster decided he was gonna keep my en-blocs, then there'd definitely be some trouble, especially considering how expensive those things are getting....
:fire: :fire: :cuss: :barf: :fire:
 
No kidding.

Especially given how expensive they're getting AND how kooky California's government is getting... I'm wondering how long it'll be before they're considered "High capacity feeding devices."

I dunno about bayoneting, though.... Maybe they could experience the joy of being the first to be butt-stroked with a Garand in 50 years? :evil:

(Corrected gawd-awful mispelling... )
 
I've had people ask me if I wanted the brass (I don't reload .223 for my AR, just buy bulk) when I was shooting the AR and I've told them to take it. I've never had anybody ask about another caliber or just start taking it htough
 
I'm just a pistol plinker and I don't reload, so I don't care about my brass, they're welcome to it.

However, I DO find it very annoying/distracting to have some weenie scurrying about my position while I'm shooting and have had to tell a few to get away from me, and a very few to get the H:cuss: away from me. Aside from being thoroughly inconsiderate, it ain't even safe. The good news is that it is an infrequent occurance.
 
Well at the range I shoot at, the other shooters will help you pick up your brass, without the thought of taking it. Nice folks.
I have been out there many times, and walked the range before shooting, and picked up 50+ cases of mixed brass. Guess that's why I have so much of it at home.

On reloading, a friend once told me that since I reload, I do not really save any money in shooting. He said, that if I was to buy ammo to shoot, I would shoot 50 rounds maybe in a visit to the range. Since I reload, I will usually shoot 200+, therefore, no savings.:eek:

I hate it when he's right.
 
Depending on what I am shooting that day, ask and you can probably have it.

Bend down to pick up without asking, and your next bend will get you a quick assist to the ground, (you don't see the rest of this line, said course of action NOT reccommended) courtesy of a butt-stroke to the back of your pointy head...

As for the orange beanie-boy, I would scratch some ID markings on an en-bloc, and when he took it, a cel-fone call to the local constabulary is in order.
 
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ya'll must go to different ranges than me!

I've never seen anybody scrounging for brass at the ranges I go to.

Did once see an older gentleman shooting a revolver who would dump his cylinder into a pouch of his range bag - guess he was a reloader.

Everyone else I've encoutnered just lets em' fly.
 
To clarify my 1st post, the older gents who sometimes pick up brass for folks at my range do it while the shooter's reloading, pasting targets, etc., and not while they're in the act of shooting.
 
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