picking up brass, getting older, maybe wiser?

[DesertFox]

You drive $100k worth of vehicles and are picking up $27.57 worth of brass? Is it becasue you like to reload or because you can't afford new brass because of the $$$ invested in vehicles? lol

I would go with one of the devices like CC posted, or maybe if you're a high roller... https://www.range-systems.com/product/ammo-upbrass-collector-36inch/


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THAT is a doohickey I might have to buy! The Lambo of brass collectors!

 

[W.E.G.]

Don't let it hit the ground!

 

[film495]

just have the RO pick it up for you and load the basket into your truck. hey, dare to dream right.

 

[ballman6711]

Thats it next to Mrs. Morris's Cobra.

Mrs. Morris is one lucky lady. Is it an original or a replica?

chris

 

[Bill M]

Used to shoot most weekends with my old friend Pete, and as he had about twenty years on me I tried to get his brass so he wouldn't have to, I was looking one day, WCC 37 headstamp! I had a friend who came back from the academy and brought me a couple of garbage bags full of brass from the State Police range. After cleaning and sorting, I had a few gallons of Fed Match 45 ACP that I gave to Pete. I was over at his house several weeks later, and he was loading for our weekend shoot, WCC 44 headstamp. I told him I guess his old press couldn't load new brass, he said "sure it will, I just need to wear the old brass out first!"

 

[CQB45ACP]

Mrs. Morris is one lucky lady. Is it an original or a replica?

chris

You know, I think he takes off the rear wheels to run a mongo roll sizer.

 

[higgite]

I have one off those with a blown fuel injected chevy in it. Thats it next to Mrs. Morris's Cobra.

I liked you until now.

Heck, he's now my new best friend. He just doesn't know it yet.

 

[ballman6711]

One of Dad's good friends bought a Cobra new. I don't know how many times he got caught speeding, but the last time he got caught the judge told him to sell the car because if he saw him again he was going to put him in jail for quite awhile. At 57 yo I'm too young to remember, but I understand that back then they took you straight to the magistrate to pay the ticket, and if you couldn't pay you got to spend the night (or maybe a few) in jail.

If I ever hit the lottery I'll buy a Cobra, probably a replica due to the price of the original ones and the fact that they don't come up for sale very often, if at all.

Maybe start one of those cars up and blow all the brass into a pile!

chris

 

[Mk-211]

Superformance LLC

Distributor of rolling American legends.

www.superformance.com

Probably the best replica.

My lotto dream.

Lamborghini Miura.

 

[GW Staar]

You don't have to have a Cobra or a Corvette or a European exotic to get in trouble......I managed it plenty of time in my '68 GTO. Heck I managed it the first week I had a license in my Mom's big Buick box.......and my first car, a '53 Ford flat head that ran faster in reverse than in drive, I managed to get unwanted attention.

As for collecting brass, I thought this one did pretty good.....admittedly better than my usual.....a spread out blanket.

https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/brass-catcher-ideas.884223/page-3#post-11873198

 

[Soonerpesek]

I managed to get unwanted attention.

Prolly becuase you did this:

ran faster in reverse than in drive

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[Carl N. Brown]

When I read 23 Ford this is the image that popped into my mind

That remnds me. If I advertize as in the market for a used car, specify century and year.

 

[jmorris]

You drive $100k worth of vehicles and are picking up $27.57 worth of brass? Is it becasue you like to reload or because you can't afford new brass because of the $$$ invested in vehicles? lol
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No, I'm not that guy. I've made a living off racecars, not spent one on them.

This is that 1923 T, the day I picked it up, with my tool box .22. Even the mail man said he thought, "I bit off more than I could chew."



The Cobras start off like this one that will be getting a twin turbo Ford in it, with a great little Remington 510.



One can make more building for another by the hour than selling built cars. Why no one counts their time spent reloading or picking up brass...

 

[GW Staar]

No, I'm not that guy. I've made a living off racecars, not spent one on them................

..............One can make more building for another by the hour than selling built cars. Why no one counts their time spent reloading or picking up brass...

That's certainly true......I've only restored one car.....a midnight blue 67 Mustang GT 390 4 speed........for my twin teen-age daughters. It was a way pricier endeavor than I expected. Nor did I count on attracting teen-age boys even more than they already did, being pretty blonds like their mamma.......at least the girls were smart enough to not let them drive it.

They had to share for a while, take turns driving that or a '75 Suburban. Their girl friends actually preferred the Suburban.....they could fit 10 girls in it in a pinch. Allowed during weekends when I wasn't using it to haul boy scouts on camp-outs.

These days I only restore things like this little FN Mauser:

 

[GW Staar]

Prolly becuase you did this:



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Well.......the guy in the Plymouth Fury didn't believe me.