Damn, now I'm rubbish picking and I'm not happy.

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"The worst part is I pick up brass in calibers that I don't own guns in."

This is why I came home last Friday with a new SA 1911A1. Had so much 45ACP from the club range I had to have something to shoot it from.
 
You can even make friends being a brass buzzard...

was shooting some .38 loads up at the range and three young guys about my age came in, one with a brand new XD45 and 400 rounds to shoot through it. Went home with a couple new people to shoot with and 394 .45ACP cases... :D I wonder where those six rounds got off to?
 
Some friends they were. Don't you see? They pocketed those 6 cases so you wouldn't have a full set. Because they knew it would drive you nuts as to their where abouts. Your friends are sadistic to say the least.:evil:
 
New Gun Club, Little Brass.

So, this past Monday I do indeed join Florida's largest and oldest gun club (Gateway), fill out the forms, hand over the cash all the while jumping up and down to get out and burn some powder and pick brass. The time arrives, head out to the 200 yd rifle range and first thing I do is check the trash cans for boxes and brass......find out they dump the cans each Sunday after their busy weekend shooters have left...
Later, I hit the 15 yd pistol range, same story, but under the bench, in the sand, are hundreds if not thousands of rounds of .40 and .45. Picked a bag full. Time to leave, get distracted, drive home.....leave bag full of brass sitting on bench.

Cry.
 
emitt1,
If you want a TON of .40 S&W, you have to go to the back bays. Past the 200 yard rifle range, next to the trap and skeet range.
They clean up on Fridays, but even so, there is always a lot of .40 S&W around.
A word of caution, all the .45 brass is mine:neener:
 
Thanks, Dr. Dickie - I'll use your suggestion on the brass picking. Hopefully, we'll meet out at the club, if you shoot Mondays, my only day since I'm self-employed.

But, I'll sneak as many of your .45's as possible...

emitt
 
Nope, I am out there every Friday afternoon (switching each week between rifle and pistol). I have a friend that is out there every Monday (he is self-employed as well). Just grab ALL the .40 S&W you can get. Makes it easier for me to find the .45 ACP
 
I must be a brass scrounger as well as I just bought a Dillon XL 650 and accessories from a co-worker that I really did not need because it came with lots of five-gallon buckets of 9x19, .40 S&W, and .45 ACP brass. I justified the purchase to my wife on the grounds that the reloader itself was worth more than the asking price, but the brass was the real attraction.
 
Been scrounging for 40+ years. Not just brasss and lead bullets. I embarressed my wife many years ago when I screeched to a halt in the car, got out, and grabbed some stuff from the side of the road.:)
 
Stupid me. I actually replaced all my autopistols for revolvers just to avoid having to pick up brass.

Wheel guns just weren't as fun.

I've switched back to pistols now, and have reverted back to executing skill-intensive terrainial residual-component retrieval missions.

Of the revolvers, should'a kept my scoped 44 single-action w/ 11" barrel, able to put 5 into a single ragged hole at 25y on a rest, but only w/ my handloads. Those were good times. :banghead:
 
I've switched back to pistols now, and have reverted back to executing skill-intensive terrainial residual-component retrieval missions.
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Yes, but you're not a REAL scrounger until you can fearlessly perform it (as in front of both people whom know and love you and people you've never met) cranially inverted while in a temporary disposal facility (of both nominal and industrial dimensions.) ;)
 
LOL Psycho... I know what you mean, but sureas heck couldn't say it that way even if I had too, since I don't know a few of those words. :/

Here's my version from AriDzona...

"Uhh... it's kinda like huntin easter eggs? :)"

Alvin in AZ
ps- Today, $27.50 from empty brass, shot up stainless steel sheet, aluminum cans (what is it about shooting and BudLight?) and copper wire from shot-up monitors... it paid for gas to go to town and bought lunch. Children say "Thank you mess-leavin' shooters" :)
 
Yes, brass scroungers of the world unite:neener:

I am the one you all hate to see, I made a brass catcher out of some 8 foot rebar with a 2' bend at the top and attached some clips to it and hang a light wool saddle blanket on it and since it has a fold on the ground the brass hit's it and falls into a nice neat pile to be recovered and I have not lost a casing, since.

I was at a range where a couple Swat agencies were doing some training and I came home with 6 thousand 9mm, 1000 308 Federal GM Match brass and a few hundred 45 acp, of course this was over the course of a week and I did have to beat off several other feral scroungers, but the FGM brass was worth it.
 
MikeWSC

Ahhhhhh! Its so nice to see that I belong to the "club" of BRASS RATS!!!

My shooting club has a "deer rifle sight-in" for 8 days prior to season opener,
which is open to the public. Many fine customers are happy to give the club
members who help, their brass, which we divide among us. :)

A couple years back someone left half a box of .300 Win Mag, which was given to me.
They sat for a while in the ammo cabinet.. all alone... until they
were joined by a 700 Remington Sendaro. Of course had to top her with a
new Cabela's 3-12 Outfitter scope and fed her some tasty 165g Hornady SST's.
Result ... a nice Whitetail doe taken at 210 yards.:D :D
My son took one at 140 yards the following year.:D :D

On a sad note, last years sight-in brought a young man with a Weatherby
chambered for the 338-378 Mag. He was having trouble getting a decent
group so I went out to give him a hand. It shot nice groups at 100 & 200 yards
for me, he was just a bit afraid of the recoil. He ended up shooting
some nice groups. When I dicussed reloading with him, he told me he had
already shot up 3 boxes at a state range and... and... :eek: he threw the
brass away! When I looked up the price to show him what he could save by reloading, I nearly cried.

Reload and shoot more often... reload and have fun!!!
 
I scored about a thousand rounds of Lake City 5.56 the other day along with a couple hundred rounds of 45 ACP. Local SWAT team was doing some training and I was like a buzzard waiting for dying game to drop and swoop in for the easy jackjpot!! You gotta love the police and the casual shooters who leave new brass for us reloaders.:D
 
Lucky you... I think I have competition at my range lately! I've seen lots of empty boxes and no cases lately. I think the guy cleaning up is swooping in before I get there! Damn him!
 
Found a problem!

Have discovered that there is such a thing as picking up the WRONG brass! A while back I scored 35 nice, brass, Boxer-primed, 7.62x39 cases. Took 'em home rejoicing, because, as anyone who loads for the SKS knows, that weapon is notorious for flinging its brass hither and yon, and beating it to death in the process. You ALWAYS need more brass.

So, yesterday, I was preparing to load up a batch of SKS ammo (#1 Son is coming home for Christmas--we will SHOOT!) and on examining these new SKS cases, discovered that half were Remington and half were some strange military headstamp, and ALL took the gol-durn small rifle primers, instead of the Lg. rifle primers like all the other, sensible, SKS cases take. :mad: Oh, Goatfeathers!!! :mad:

Threw all of 'em into my scrap brass bucket.

Proceeded to load up a nice batch of SKS ammo in Win and Fed cases, with a couple of Lapua pickups just for good measure.

Now I feel better.
 
Shooting son

Scout 26--Good one! #1 Son ASKED to go shooting while he is home, so he knows precisely what he is in for--He works in Boston MA and doesn't much get a chance there--and, he wants to bring a friend who hasn't shot. :) So we will go to my club range and puncture some innocent paper--AKA turning perfectly good money into smoke and noise. I dearly look forward to it. :D
 
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