Crackhead at the Range
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Once had a shooter in an adjacent lane picking up brass, including mine, while I was firing,,,,
No worries,,,,
The next time he started firing,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
He left mine alone after that,,,
someguy2800
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I tried that but its just too much hassle. I shoot almost every day and usually only 20 rounds or so.
lightman
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Yup, have more than I'll ever use and still pick it up. I just don't have the stamina to stay at it as long as I once did. I still enjoy hitting the local bridges, gravel pits and small private ranges. I've had a couple of those scores after the Police Quals!
Toprudder
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I had a guy to my right start picking up my brass. I thought he was saving it for himself, but when I said something about it (nicely) he said "Oh, you reload it? Here, you can have mine, too". He was just trying to be nice by sweeping up all the brass around him. I came home with a nice haul of .40 that day.
That is why I try to strike up a conversation with the shooters around me. More often than not, they will give me their brass.
Mowgli Terry
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One of the shooters who participates in an informal Bullseye match has been to the ocean on brass. He brands the case heads with a marking pin. Sometime back when CM brass was scarce I saw a case of :the Jones first class. When brass was scarce, an acquaintance was shooting a CM caliber rifle. Pointed out to him a bunch of CM empties. Nearly on his hands and knees he proceeded to scrounge the brass. As he wandered off the pad it was necessary to point out the range was still hot. Most of the once fired dried up after the last big famine.
That was cool of him!
I have meet a few like that. If they ask me my opinion about reloading, I try to encourage them to save their brass now, they could always sell it later if they decide not to reload.
I got a little touchy in the last "banic". Had guys coming to the range just to pick up brass, while people where still on the firing line. I had to tell them to leave my brass alone. A new meaning of brass vultures. Them kind have no scruples.
1976B.L.Johns.
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You GUYS!!!!!!..........did not help with my addiction! After reading this tread for a couple of days, i couldn't help myself anymore! So I grabbed my S&W 460 & 4 boxes of different handloads. Told my wife I was going to go do some shootin', which I did. (40) rounds at our closest pit......BUT I wanted to check for spent brass. Not much to be had, not what was expected after the Holiday. Went home for lunch, had a wild hair that told me to check out three other pits. Well after about 60 miles or so, 3 pits and numerous deer fly bites, I came home with over 200 rds of brass. 9mm, 40 S&W, 45 auto(including the funky Browning headstamp and color), with the biggest surprise being 45 colt. (Gotta love that) The scrounging did not pay for my truck gas but got me out of the house for the afternoon. O.K., got my fix, sometimes one can not put a price on simple fun!
Legionnaire
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Have to admit, this is not what I thought this thread was about from the title! Made me laugh!
I have the disease, too, although I don't reload for semi-auto pistols. But finding .357 and .44 mag, .44spl., .45 Colt ... awesome!
I have the disease, too, although I don't reload for semi-auto pistols. But finding .357 and .44 mag, .44spl., .45 Colt ... awesome!
Visited an 'open to the public / non-attended / no fee' range in Arkansas last year while on vacation. (Riding MC)
Shot there a few days. During those days, there were some local folks that came out about once a day for both lead and brass.
There wasn't much there to be had as they kept it picked up daily.
Everyone pickin' was nice and courteous.
Glad to see nothing was going to waste as the Park Service sure wasn't collecting it.
Shot there a few days. During those days, there were some local folks that came out about once a day for both lead and brass.
There wasn't much there to be had as they kept it picked up daily.
Everyone pickin' was nice and courteous.
Glad to see nothing was going to waste as the Park Service sure wasn't collecting it.
mstreddy
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Yeah, that's what I was thinking too. Crack head at the range? Man, that's scary. Then as we read on... Wait, that's me!
I have more than enough 9MM, 40 S&W, 45 ACP, 38 SPcl, 357 Mag, and several others. But sometimes I just can't help myself and I become one of those dreaded brass rats!
It's shiny, it's laying there, it must be picked up!
Last week, at the indoor range I frequent, there were a couple of guys that rented the Big Desert Eagle in 50 AE. One of my shooting buddies got started reloading recently, and he's talking about getting one of the 50 AE Deagles. So, he wanted the brass. We were like rats running around after each shiny piece of brass that fell to the floor. We weren't even letting them cool!
badkarmamib
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Went to a picnic last night for my wife's work. Turns out the host's husband is a competitive shooter, with a range set up in his backyard. My 9YO son looks at the ground beside the back porch, and says, "Look, Dad! AR brass!". He picked up a handful, I noticed some was different. Didn't show him the headstamps, asked him what he found. The 7.62x39 was easy, since he has shot my AK, but the other he had no real experience with. I asked him what it looked like. "An AR round, cut down, with a bigger bullet... Uh... Blackout?" Can't remember the last time I was so proud. Handed him and his 7YO brother a Solo cup, and told them to help the guy out (not that they needed to be told, I think the disease is hereditary...) Between the two of them, they picked the mulch and gravel clean.
That is AWESOME! I love it.
Today I was at our club's rifle range. On the way out one drives by the pistol range. I can't explain it....but the car turned *all by itself* to go to the pistol parking area. "Well.....since I'm here.....I might as well check the buckets." (Score, by the way.)
Toprudder
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Yeah, whats up with those revolver shooters. They should throw their brass on the ground like everyone else!
Toprudder
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I can imagine you guys picking them up and then playing the "hot potato". LOL
mstreddy
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Yeah, sometimes, they even put the spent brass back in the boxes and leave them on the shooting bench! I tell you, the nerve of some folks!
mljdeckard
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I was at an indoor range one day, and a guy comes in with a FA Thompson, and a gym bag full of drum mags. I was two lanes over, I glanced a couple of times as he was setting up, I opened my mouth to ask, and he said, before I could get it out; "Yes, you can keep them, I don't need them." I didn't count, but it was a few hundred.
Toprudder
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The indoor range where I am a member, they have FA guns for rent. We had a range meet there for one of the groups that I belong to, and they brought out a Thompson for us to shoot. I setup up my brass catcher and caught all the brass that I and a couple other people shot. It was about 300 pieces.
I have no shame.
I have no shame.
kmw1954
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Went to a forum group shoot this past weekend to an outdoor range. Arrived to find that none of the covered ranges had finished floors. the exception being the 25yd pistol range had a concrete floor covering just half. We were literally standing on fired brass, much of it tarnished and crushed from people walking on it. It about drove me mad looking at it. I did pick up as much of my brass as I could find but I know I lost quite a bit.
At the local range, if I'm not 'picking', I tend to push the brass in my area out of harms way,,, Hate to see any of it get stomped up when somebody else could make good use of it.
The R/O's will sweep it up a couple times a day, but it even then, especially on the weekends,,, pistol brass just about everywhere,,, almost impossible to not step on it,,,,
kmw1954
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These shooting positions are on bare ground and it's easily seen that most brass is left where it falls. The wife and I were fortunate enough to get lanes on the concrete pad which made it a little easier to recover. A few years ago there was another Sportsman's Club we went to that was the same way. Brass everywhere, most you could tell had been there a very long time. The only brass we recovered was what fell on the bench.
Tarnished and crushed brings $1.40/lb in my neck of the woods. I grab it all.
Toprudder
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I always come back from the range with more 9mm than I shot. I mark my brass so that I know which is mine (previously processed for NATO crimped primers, stepped cases, etc) and I throw the new stuff in a 5 gallon bucket. Well, the bucket just recently filled up and I sold it to a reloading friend of mine for about that price - $100. He has a couple of FA 9mm SMGs that he needs to feed.
kmw1954
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Question. If the going price of scrap brass is $1.40 per pound then unless this brass is useable for reloading why would someone pay full scrap price? Because if it is to be scraped at best one can expect is to break even.
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