do you come home with more brass than you took?

[FlyinBryan]

it seems like when i come home from the range, i always have more brass than what i carried up there. there are signs that say please sweep or pick up your brass, and nobody ever does it. the range owner always seems happy just to see someone picking it up.

i usually take 200-300 rounds, and end up bringing home 400-500 rounds.

its not that i am intentionally taking more, i just want to make sure i dont leave with less

 

[bensdad]

I always come home with more. I don't believe there has ever been an exception. Sometimes its a great deal more. I even pick up crap I don't reload. figure I'll end up with enough for the recycler one day.

 

[Wildfire]

Yep.

Hey There:
There seems to be no shortage of slob shooters .
I always pick up junk. I never reload any brass I find at a range but do throw it in a bucket for the scrap yard. I build signs of aluminum and make regular trips to sell the scraps. The brass is usaully a 5 gallon bucket or so.
Even the .22 brass adds up. Our range has cement and it easy to sweep up the brass.

 

[jdc1244]

I usually come home with as much or more. Thanks to my fellow shooters for the free brass.

 

[CBS220]

I shoot on my own land, so bring home more than I brought would involve a rather daunting violation of the law of conservation of mass.

But, I make trips to the police range for .45, .40, 9mm, and .380 brass. Depressingly often I find dozens of 9mms blown out to .40 caliber... sort of scary when you think these people might be carrying 9mm in their .40s!

 

[eliphalet]

Depends on if we're shootin 22's or not.
If centerfire, always more comes home, at least 99% of the time exception being game hunting, then some can be lost. Today was more.

 

[possum]

i probally spend more time picking up brass at the range that i actually do shooting. no matter what i shot that day i pick up .45acp, 9mm and .40, and i have individual boxes for the various ammo so that way i can sort it there, nd when i get home i seperate it. i keep the .40 and .45 and give the 9mm to my dad.

 

[MilsurpShooter]

Only once have I brought home more. Went to the range with 40 rounds of .35 Remington, came home with a whopping... 42 rounds. County run Range, get's most of it's money from scrap metal and the fee's. They've actually began locking up the buckets of brass because people have been coming in off hours and taking it.

 

[Afy]

I normally throw away the rimfire brass, unless I want a few to make wax capped snap caps. And throw away the hulls (in the trash) when trap shooting.

Other than that its pretty mch what I come to the range with. Everyone reloads around here, so no scope for collecting brass. I do sometimes find the odd case, that I do pick up. Normally its in a caliber I do not have... e.g 375 HH.

 

[katastrof0]

Just about everytime..

Its become somewhat of a habit looking down on the ground after the brass, thats probably why i have a really bad back

BB John

 

[sublimaze41]

Not much brass gets left at our range. Most people police it up and take it or another hound dog gets it before I do.

I usually find brass when I am looking for .308 cases that my PTR-91 has sent everywhere.

 

[lee n. field]

do you come home with more brass than you took?

If I'm lucky.

 

[Floppy_D]

I usually tell the RO that I'm a reloader, and that if he doesn't mind, I'd like to tidy up for everyone. One guy said "You can fill your bag up with brass from that drum over there, for all I care." I did.

 

[DJW]

Used to always take home more but lately either someone else is picking the range clean or folks are waking up and taking their own home to recylce or reload. Most still just leave the rimfire...............

 

[Walkalong]

Almost always more. Sometimes I scrounge brass longer than I shoot, sometimes. It's getting tough on the old knees though.

I have found more brass in the last several months than I have for a while. Seems like more folks are shooting " store bought" ammo and leaving the brass lately. Hopefully they won't wise up for a while longer.

 

[The Bushmaster]

I have no pride. You will often find me on my hands and knees in among other shooters collecting their brass (with their permission of course)...I can not deny it. I am a Brass Rat of the highest order...

 

[Walkalong]

or emptying a garbage can to seperate the brass and then putting the trash back in. Whatever it takes, right Bushmaster?

 

[DJW]

The thought has crossed my mind but our range uses 55 gallon drums and that might take a lot of work to sort and put everything(except brass of course)back in the drum.

 

[Walkalong]

but our range uses 55 gallon drums

So does mine. How bad do you want the brass? How "frugal" are you?

If there looks like a good bit in there, I'm "goin' in".

That is sometimes the best brass. Once fired with the boxes to prove it.

 

[achildofthesky]

I am an unrepentant brass monger, and my name is...

I ALWAYS clean up brass, shot up targets and trash left by others the ranges I frequent and keep any brass that is unwanted by shooters (I always, always ask before taking). I sort out the steel and toss them in the trash can and sort the rest at home. I reload, trade or scrap the rest to support my shooting habit 100%.

Heck, I havn't HAD to buy 22's ever given the volume dropsies left on tables and the ground.

Patty

 

[Eric F]

yess because I clean and sell it as is. I always look for a few extra shovels full of brass.

 

[hddeluxe]

Only occassionally will I have more than when I came with. There are some serious brass scroungers at the public range. They stay there all day and just pick up brass. Darn it.

 

[the_right_reverend]

the old retired jar head that runs the range during the week is compensated in part by the brass he collects to recycle as scrap...... and that is exactly what it is junk

 

[taliv]

i'm lucky if i recover the brass i shot. i never take other people's brass.

 

[Der Verge]

I pick up EVERYTHING. I keep the brass of the calibers I use, give the calibers my buddy uses to him, and the rest ends up at the scrap yard. $0.65 a pound for yellow brass, to help me continue my addiction. I mean, I already bent over and picked it up....

I only use the brass that is is good shape. If is looks like it has been there a while, in the scrap bucket it goes.