I'm sick I need help!!!!

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Went on a nice drive with my wife yesterday, along the way I saw what looking like a shooting pit and pulled in for a brass patrol. We found 152 pieces of brass, 95 WWB 9mm & 57 .45 ACP Blazer Brass that is structurally sound but just tarnished-looking. Should I segregate this brass from my inside-range pickups, or treat it any differently? I washed the dirt out in warm, soapy water and air-dried it.

I also went for a range trip last night and scored about 500 rounds of mixed brass from the range...keep in mind, I haven't actually reloaded yet...
 
About one year ago I bought my first handgun. It was a 9mm. I bought a Lee turret press and loaded several thousand rounds in the following few months. Then I bought a 1911 and "had" to load 45 ACP. Then my wife bought a P238, so I had to start loading for that. I then bought a Lee Loadmaster. I loaded 900 45 rounds yesterday. Over the last 13 months I've loaded about 13,000 rounds. I now have about 1,000 pieces of .40 that I've picked up at the range. Time to buy something in a .40 now. I can't just let a bunch of .40 brass lay there unused. I may have to build an AR15 so I can load .223.

Sometimes I feel like an idiot bending over to pickup brass at the range. Whatever:) It's always a good day when I go home with more than I shot. I keep my addiction from my coworkers, but my family knows.
 
Sometimes I feel like an idiot bending over to pickup brass at the range
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How about crawling around picking it up? Have you emptied a trash can to get the brass and then put all the trash back in yet? When you are done shooting, do you hang around waiting for the fellow in the next pit to get done just on the off chance he leaves his brass? Guilty as charged on all counts. :)
 
Oh but it gets better. Lately I've been buying small lots of 308 brass from people. Meeting a complete stranger in supermarket parking lots, I hand him the money, he hands me a bag, we get back in our cars and leave. I think I know what a drug buy feels like.
 
Walkalong said:
How about crawling around picking it up? Have you emptied a trash can to get the brass and then put all the trash back in yet? When you are done shooting, do you hang around waiting for the fellow in the next pit to get done just on the off chance he leaves his brass? Guilty as charged on all counts. :)
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Well yeah, but I wasn't going to actually SAY it :) I've even picked out the brass between the partitions and the wall. There's about a 2" gap where most people won't clean out. I found some cool stuff in there.
 
Ah, your disease is incurable. Take it from someone who shows up at his local range a half hour before opening time to scrounge brass. Right now several hundred pieces of .45ACP are drying on my workbench, and I am already looking forward to my next "harvesting."
 
We have a national forest range near here and the best time I've found to go is on the weekends starting about 2 or 3 weeks before deer season when all the once a year shooters go to sight in their hunting rifles. Most don't reload and just leave the brass on the ground or benches and those with new rifles that have never been sighted in usually leave a box or 2 of new once fired stuff when they leave. Its also fun to watch all the newbies trying to sight in their rifles the first time at 100 yards and can't seem to find the paper til you tell them to start at 25 yards.
 
Went to the range this weekend, shot 250 rounds of 9mm & .40: was happy to come home with several hundred mixed rounds of pickup brass, but ecstatic that I got about 25 .380 cases and two .38s. Still don't have a press...
 
Watched a gentleman last week burn through 200 rounds of brand new 10mm Auto. At first I was hoping he'd be leaving the brass, but he methodically picked up every single piece and put them back in the original boxes :cuss:....and promptly tossed the boxes full of brass into the garbage can. Obviously I was willing to shed my dignity and dig through a little range trash for that gold mine! :D
 
I still have no reloading set up (in the works however.... funds) but have collected a stuffed ziploc gallon bag full of .45, 9mm, and two half filled of .357 and .38spl. and yes quite a bit of .40 with no gun to shoot it out of.
 
I broke the decapping pin on my 9mm Luger die, and I am going through DTs waiting for the replacement!
 
Have you emptied a trash can to get the brass and then put all the trash back in yet?
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Ha! I did this just two days ago at our range. It's a range trash can. It's just used targets and ammo boxes. It's not anything nasty. I came away with probably 150-200 pieces of various 9mm, .40, and .45 acp brass. Yep. I've got it bad too.
 
narceleb, I feel your pain (and the rest of you). I broke my Autoprime and haven't reloaded anything in almost two weeks. I could get another priming tool or order the part on the interwebs but I see this as a sign to cut back.

At least until I get the patio done.
 
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I have not loaded one round yet. But found my self driving a 214 miles round trip to get one bag of .357 mag brass. top that one. lol
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You've obviously never been to Tulsa for the big Wannemacher show.
 
You know you got it bad when you want to tumble shotgun shells. :eek:


My new MEC 9000 arrives tomorrow and I haven't felt this way since Christmas Eve 1957.
The only difference is, in 1957 I couldn't have a beer to settle my nerves !! :D
 
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I have the same problem. To add to it we have 22 hours of day light every day all summer to shoot. With 20 hours of darkness every day all winter to reload.Can't do much outside @ 48 below. At least i don't go out unless i have to. Ya gotta either love or hate Alaska.:D:D
 
Frogo: Or else you can watch the alarm clock and see how many ammo calibers you can see.
223 204 222 308 416 357 you got the picture one can get board up here in Alaska.
 
I found myself choosing the salad I bought tonight based on the size of container to use for holding my pistol brass when empty.
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Perfectly natural and understandable.
 
You know you've got it bad when you look at the pages inside Dillon's "Blue Press", actually looking for things to buy, rather than the pictures of the Girls on the front.
 
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