I'm a Brass rat!!!

[NC-Mike]

i'm like MCMike... if there's a dumpster at the range i'm at i'll go through it!

do i need some kind of intervention??????????????????

Embrace your true nature, you must.

 

[bullseye308]

So what does a guy do with a bucket full of brass that has defects or simply has outlived it's safe re-use?

Why, recycle it and use the money to buy powder or primers, of course.

 

[ambidextrous1]

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"So what does a guy do with a bucket full of brass that has defects or simply has outlived it's safe re-use?"

Take it to your local metal reclaimation dealer; that's a cash crop, son!

 

[Quickdraw McGraw]

What kind of battery powered vacuums are you guys using? I may be interested in one of them buggers!

 

[rondog]

WOOHOO! FREE BRASS!!!

 

[tribbles]

*stands up, looks around nervously*

"Hi, my name is Tribbles, and I'm a brass rat/hound/whore/whatever."

Seriously. I'm guilty of all the 'offenses' that Shoney mentioned. I even save the Berdan brass I find - who knows, I might try reloading it one day.

Just watch it, you might even progress to scavenging lead out of the backstops and start scheming about large-scale mining operations in the middle of the night...

 

[tasco 74]

you got me there tribbles

a few years ago a couple of friends and i cleaned out the bullet trap at an indoor range..... we got enough lead to last the rest of our lives out that thing.... i also went to my local print shop and talked him out of a huge bar of old linotype....

LIFE IS SHORT.....

 

[jjohnson]

Brass Whores

Yeah, there's probably a 12-step program for some of us.

What's a little Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder among shooters? Half of us are just a tad off center anyway.

I'd forgotten to start scavenging lead. I've been to preoccupied hoarding brass and lost track, but now with the election results, I'm considering taking to casting my own, so I guess I'm going to be digging through the bullet stop filler for lead now, too.

For those of you who scavenge lead - what's the best way of doing that if the fill that the bullets go into is sand? Steal a colander from your wife and go panning with it? Or what?

 

[TooTaxed]

I confess I have a hunger for brass...just can't resist the stuff! I've developed two labor-saving solutions:

(1.) Grandkids.

(2.) I'm Range Safety Officer, running the range...so we now have a rule that everyone must police their brass and dump it in 5-gal strategecally placed buckets. Guess who frequently visits the buckets?

 

[evan price]

I started the bug a few years ago and now I actively mine every range within an hour's drive of me, I signed two placest to contracts so I pick up their brass every month. I buy and sell and trade it. The good thing is that I now have no problem getting brass to reload and I meet nice people. I dive the trash cans and the squib buckets too.

 

[coloradokevin]

I have 68lbs of pistol brass in a 5 gallon bucket in my basement, plus a few more bags of assorted rifle brass that probably add up to another 10-15lbs.

Yet, I think I've barely scratched the surface when compared with some of you folks

Carry on!

 

[45ACPUSER]

I belong to a private club so we don't have to worry about a RO stopping us from picking up brass. The first thing I do when I get to the range is scrounge brass. One of the guys at the club calls us grazers, he said we look like cattle out grazing.
Rusty

I just call them Hoover or Kirby!