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

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we used to let the Coast Guard use our outdoor range they left 9mm and 223 brass behind And I admit I'm a cheap sob so i would pick it up and at one point had 25k 9mm cases.
Had to stop I was running out of room for the stuff,even now I bite my lip when I see brass lying on the ground.
 
You have to stop somewhere!

Highlander 5--I hear ya! We all have our limits. I'm to the point in .45ACP where it goes to the recycle bucket unless it is really primo (Starline, Fed, or Win,) and then I pull some out of my stock cases and recycle that instead, to make room.

Dave5339--Whaddya do with the steel cases? I can't find a buyer at all (though a local co. will take 'em off my hands for a favor) and of course don't reload the darn things!
 
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The Bushmaster:
"Luggernut...Are you happy now. You got all of us confessing that we all Dipsty-Dumster Dive. Or are you still "not happy"."

I am very pleased to realize I am not the only one with this issue. Medication is not needed. It does make for some added excitement when going to the range.. but when it's just been cleaned up it's a downer.

I also seem to have a need to tumble and clean it ASAP as well. But that's another issue!
 
Last range trip I found some Wolf Gold 7.5x55 brass... in the mud, at the farthest bench, totally caked and filled with mud and rainwater, and completely ruined.
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Boy, you must shoot with all the rich folks if they're tossing those kind cases? :evil:
 
The other day at the range after the bullseye league was over, one of the shooters was rummaging through the brass bucket looking for reloadable cases. must have spent 15 or 20 minutes going through it and only came up with a couple hands full he was interested in, plus three 38 special cases he gave me. You would have thought he had found a hidden treasure. Must have been all of twenty .45 ACP cases. This was in a five gallon bucket about half full.

Why will people that are perfectly willing to spend $500 or $1000 on a gun so inclined to spend their free time scrounging brass?

Years ago Menards had an after Christmas sale. One of the things they had on sale for like $1 was a plastic red toolbox that was missing the normal tray inside. I bought about a dozen of them. About 10X10X24. I toss reloadable cases into the cleaner when I get back from the range, mine and whatever I find laying around. After I get a zip lock bag full of cleaned cases, the bag goes in the red tool box. I now have a toolbox almost full of 38 and another one nearly full of 9 mm. Three others are 2/3 or 3/4 full of various other calibers. Each caliber in its own ziplock bag neatly labeled with a sharpie.
 
:confused: "Why will people that are perfectly willing to spend $500 or $1000 on a gun so inclind to spend their free time scrounging brass?":confused:

So we can save to buy another gun and scrounge more brass for it....What else...:D
 
went to the local range last weekend and lo I found somthing I never thought I would see left on the ground...

next to the normal fodder of 243 and 30-30 was 10 pieces of 22 Hornet brass and about 15 pcs of 45-70...the 30-30 I grab anyway due to it being used for my 7-30, 30-30 and now my 25-35...but there was a great swishing sound as the hornet and govt brass made its way to my can. :)

I normally don't have any shame when it comes to sifting for brass on the ground...I also have good luck asking others that if they don't reload can I possibly have their brass? :D

No shame in this kids game, I tell ya...

D
 
Smokey Joe,

Will probably just end up trashing the steel case stuff, unless the local recycler will take it when we drop off the scrap brass and the aluminum.

Semper Fi
 
I do this.. I go to an private range, with my Uncle. Even before we begin to unload the stuff, we go right out to the benches and look around for anything we can use, trash cans are not excluded. They are just 50 gal drums with drains on the bottom, so its usually dry. Also all of the benches have an roof, this contributes to keeping things nice and clean. I have no adversion about jumping in a can just to pick up some brass.. I enjoy it in fact.
 
You know you have it real bad when you go to the range just to mine the brass....
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That would be me. :eek:

I shoot on my own property in one of my fields and lose quite a bit of my brass in the tall grass. I go to the range to 'look at the guns they have for sale', then I go out to the range and during a cease fire strike up a conversation with somebody friendly looking so it looks like I belong and then when the range goes hot again I become a brass buzzard. :D
 
Glancing at the Ground.

This coming week I'm headed to our area gun club in order to hand them a nice check for a yearly membership - just to mine brass. 'course, I'll do a tad bit of shooting, but - all that brass, just waiting....
 
Recently I'm finding myself depressed when there is nothing at the range when I get there.... :uhoh:
 
Well, this time of year is the best time...everyone out making sure their rifles are zero'd and such...just like harvest time back in the old days. :)


Soon it will be the winter months for the scroungers... :uhoh:


I do have to ask...do you grab the really tarnished stuff? I mean the stuff thats almost the same color as the lonley old wolf stuff laying around?

I admit I have...tumble the crap out of it and it comes close to being the same sheen and all. :)

D
 
Hi, my name is jfruser and I am a brass scrounger.

I have yet to hit bottom and be seen azz over teakettle in a trash drum, but I have been seen haunting ranges for orphaned brass.

I have accumulated enough .38spl brass to think, "Maybe I ought to buy a S&W M10/15/17/18?" to shoot it in.
 
Boxes as well

I like it when the guy next to me is shooting my caliber and doesn't reload. Then I not only can scrounge his once fired brass, but the boxes as well. If you're going to be Greedy then you should go all the way. :evil:
 
Hi jfruser, my name is alvin and I am a brass scrounger... :/

Luggernut (OP), if you are picking up rubbish and ain't happy, then you ain't doin it right! :/

Maybe if we go over your methods in detail we can get you straightened out. ;)

Alvin in AZ
 
I have yet to hit bottom and be seen azz over teakettle in a trash drum,
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My preferred method is to just dump the trash barrel over and sit on the ground and sort the shotgun hulls. We leave the barrel laying on it's side as it's easier to chuck the "bad" hulls back in and barrel and put the good ones in the mesh laundry bag(s) that I got at the dollar store. Not sure how well this method would go over at an indoor range, YMMV. Plus, we then use the hull picker to "vacuum" the trap and skeet fields, this of course is near at the end of the day when no one else is shooting and we're the only ones there. (Safety First !!!) As long as everything gets picked back up, the RSO's don't mind. When we leave, there are no hulls left on the fields.

The kids also like to scrounge the unbroken clay pigeons. I haven't bought a box of clay birds in years and probably have 10-12 boxes of various sizes (Mini, Midi's and Rabbits) out the garage that we use the hand throwers.

There's roughly a box+ of White Flyers thawing/defrosting in the laundry/slop sink that we picked up out the snow yesterday.

Should I even mention that I also recycle wads ????

If I/someone ever comes up with a way to reuse powder or primers............:neener: :evil:

Scout26 - *I Put the the "Cheap" in Cheap SOB.*

One of the RSO's and I where talking about reloading (well *my* reloading as he found tried it several years ago and found it boring.) I explained that we just come out here to have fun. I'm not competing in matches or shooting for cash/other prizes. It's me and kids (and Mrs Scout on occasion) making guns go bang while we get some fresh air and sunshine. It's more like "plinking with a shotgun" then "serious" shooting. Not that we're not strict about safety. In addition to regular Trap and Skeet, we do play games like "Which House, ?? (with or without a Delay)", "Single or Doubles ?", "What Size Bird(s) ?", "Chips" and any thing else we can think up to break clays.

So I can't see paying $4-10 per box of shells when I can reload for $2-3 per box (at least until I have to buy more shot, and then I'm sure ammo prices will have gone up also.) Plus our loads are tailored to us, not "You'll get what load Remington/Winchester/Federal is pushing this week and like it."
 
Brassoholic

Hi, my name is Orfeo and I'm a brassoholic. . .

I've got no sense of shame whatsoever when it comes to picking up brass. I've spent many hours on my hands and knees gathering brass, and many hours looking through the range garbage cans looking for discarded cardboard Remington ammo boxes with the nice plastic bullet trays in them. All my reloaded ammo goes into those free boxes. Now, I am just starting to get into selling brass for scrap to help support my addiction! :)
 
Luggernut take note, Orfeo is doing it right! ;)

No where I shoot has trash cans. All are wildcat shooting ranges that usually involves a dirt tank's dam.

Remington boxes and trays... since they don't leave 30-30 boxes laying around I've went to using a dremel and a pocket knife and cutting out the Remington 223 trays to fit 30-30 loads. :)

Selling brass... been doing that and was upset I didn't know enough reloaders locally to give brass to. Was telling a non-40S&W-reloader "if I could just meet a guy that reloads 40S&W I could set 'im up real nice :)".

So I met one finally and told him to get his sorry butt on "the high road dot org" but hadn't ran across him yet... Mr White? Calling Mr White?

Alvin in AZ
 
I'm a brass whore, and proud of it. Whazzittoyou?

This coming week I'm headed to our area gun club in order to hand them a nice check for a yearly membership - just to mine brass. 'course, I'll do a tad bit of shooting, but - all that brass, just waiting....
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One of the ranges I use is quite reasonable- 7 bucks for a day, 100 per year. I've generally gone the day route. This year that goes to 10 per day, 100 per year. I'm going annual. If I can't break even on that deal I should be exiled. Next month I'm going to a shoot. Last one I went to a guy gave me 400 .223 cases- about 1/2 the match fee worth of brass. And I wasn't even TRYING to "solicit." This time they better have the brass can nailed down.;)
 
Hmmmm.......mining brass to sell for scrap.......another way to fund our shooting addicition. At my club everyone just sweeps it off the concrete into the gravel.

I think we'll just endear ourselves to the RSO's a little more by sweeping up not just the trap and skeet fields but also the rifle/pistol range for them at the end of the day.

"Hey Kids !!! Dad just thought up a new game !!!!! It's called "Fill the 5 gallon buckets with brass." :D :evil: :scrutiny:
 
I've also picked up my share of brass at the range.

Some people don't mind you picking up brass if you ask but they do give you a pretty mean stare when you put on gloves and wait for them to shoot to try to grab the brass in the air before it hits the ground. :neener:
 
I was fortunate to get the S&W's Shooting Sports center in Springfield, MA today. It was a great facility and I decided to test fire a new M&P .40 pistol. Great gun... however.. .when I went into the range and saw all that nice shiny brass (hundreds of rounds) all over the floor and there wasn't anything I could do to get it- I was depressed. I'm pathetic.
 
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