Bulk Target Ammo...No Reloads

[Highland Ranger]

Never heard of any range keeping your brass.

All of them around here want you to clean up after yourself, and some of the indoor ones will not let you cross the firing line to retreive brass because the line is always hot.

But other than that, your brass is yours . . . . .

 

[Gaucho Gringo]

I also buy and shoot Miwall reloads. They work for me and the prices are great as far as I am concerned. Last weekend at the gunshow in Portland, Or I bought 500 .38 spl 158 grn SWC reloads for $64.95. That equals $6.50 for a box of 50. The ammo shoots good, the price is right and I save the brass. The problem is at this price it makes it hard to justihy buying a reloading setup. The $6.50 a box cost is almost the sane or less than it would cost me to buy reloading equipment and supplies. Also my time spent reloading is worth something. I will c ontinue to buy Miwall reloars until something changes the cost. I will have to cross those bridges when I get there.

 

[bill larry]

What if you shoot a revolver? I always keep my brass...as soon as its shot, it goes right back in the box it came in. They gonna make you throw it on the floor?!

That would be my one and only trip to that range. Pure crap.

 

[-terry]

Gaucho,
It may be true that the cost is almost the same, but when reloding, you have the ability to custom build a load; for target, for your SO, for plinking, for IDPA, etc.
It's also a fun way to spend some time. Researching bullets, cases, primers, OAL, etc.
I reload for more than the price. Also if you are buying someone's else's reloads, you might as well reload your own and be sure of what you're shooting in your valuable gun.

 

[Famine]

The indoor range I go to does not let you keep your brass either. I don't mind because its only 8 bucks to shoot for as long as you want. Sometimes me and the wife spend 6 or 7 hours up there shooting all for 8 bucks each. The other indoor ranges I have called tell me its 15 bucks each per hour but you can keep you own brass there haha not worth 90 bucks each to shoot there for 6 hours just to keep some brass IMO

The $8 it costs you, that's not including ammo of course, correct?

Well I guess maybe I should just move or something. My range is $10/half hour and $15/full hour. I can't keep my brass and they don't allow reloads. and on top of that, the cheapest ammo option they have for my .45 is $13.99/50.

Now I understand that more than a few of you have said, "I'd just leave and go somewhere else." Well, the ranges around here are not exaclty like Starbucks. If I don't like this one that is literally 300 yards from my house, then my next option is 30 minutes away. So I'm not sure what I'll do next. Oh well, not looking for answers, just venting.:banghead:

 

[MPanova]

Famine --- Thats just the range fee. Like I said though its 8 bucks for me and 8 bucks for the wife and we can shoot what ever we want with what ever ammo we bring for as long as we want. They open at noon and close at 10pm so we could shoot for 10 hours for 8 bucks if we chose to. To me its not worth paying the other range 15 bucks each per hour just to keep some brass.

 

[Tbu61]

I used to go to a range that didn't permit pick-up...

My son (then 14) would sweep up the brass from time to time and dump it in an Ammo can (that I placed in a dark corner)...

Other shooters would cue in on this and do the same thing.

At the end of the visit, my son would button up the can and carry it out with our other gear. Nobody ever gave it a second thought

Kind of underhanded, but I wasn't about to just hand over my 10MM empties
so some shyster could sell them back to me

 

[evan price]

I've been to a range (ONCE, they never get repeats) where not only must you leave the brass & no reloads, they also say, No aluminum cased Blazer (Even though they sell it for take-out), and you MUST buy range ammo from us (at our price, which IIRC for 9mm ball was about $14/50 and for .45 was about $21/50!) I recall they had yellow box UMC for the cheapest range ammo.