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So back story here, I have been a member of Tri County gun club in providence Ky for a few years now and I really enjoy the time I spend there with the exception of one thing.......(Jaws music) The brass thief!!!! This guy lives some where around the range close enough that when a gun goes off he drives up . Its a gated private entrance with a lock so I know he is a member and just not a nobody.

To make matters more complicated I have had words with the man before, due to him showing up one Sunday afternoon and asking if he could weed eat around the rifle house. This was three poles and he should have been done, instead it was the poles and then the grass in front of benches at the 10 yard line and is picking up brass as he goes along. When all of a sudden he hits the rock mother load and my rifles and myself get pelted with rocks. When my screaming match was over my lip was busted open from the rock and all this late life bald fatty had to say was sorry. I packed up and left not before laying into him again about how stupid what he was doing was.

Fast forward to today the guy is still there doing same thing, nothing has changed when he shows up I race to the pistol bays to pick up brass just to spite him. (little things in life).

So what is the best way to protect our brass while we are shooting?
 
Own your own land, shoot revolvers, single shots and other stuff that doesn’t spew brass everywhere, obtain brass catchers some will work for pistols, some for rifles.

If your shooting from a bench one of the fold up laundry baskets work great. I use them just so I don’t have to bend over.

Like this.

 
I know who your talking about as I go to the same range, the OP did not go in depth about this guy enough. You can tell him anything you want but he does not listen. He starts outside the bay and works too you.
 
The guy will even walk up and talk to you at the bench and pick up the brass on the table you just shot. Ask all you want but your not getting any where with him.
 
If enough of you feel that way about him can you get him booted from the club?
If that doesn't work, maybe some of you can have a more intense talk with him.
 
When I lived in Columbus, OH back in the day, there was a public range in Delaware County... just a wide open range for anyone to use. Anyway, I was up shooting pistols one day... I had my new HiPower and was popping bowling pins at 100yds (well... trying to...) and I realized there was a guy behind me fairly catching my brass as it came out of the gun! I cleared my weapon and turned around and asked him in so many words what he thought he was doing. He showed me my .45ACP brass (I had Midway headstamp brass, it was obviously mine...) and said he was picking up this brass... it wasn't mine because I was shooting 9mm. I unholstered my .45, which I was carrying in a shoulder holster, displayed it to him and said he was making a pretty serious mistake. So he throws my brass all over the place and goes off to sulk... but I never saw him again after that.
 
Since this is a gun club and sounds like you have to pay a membership fee. Then you should attend a meeting or arrange a meeting among members and address the fact that some members are reloaders and recovering any brass that is not yours should be made forbidden. I am a member of 3 ranges (2 outdoor & 1 indoor) that picking up any brass that is not yours without permission from the original owner of the brass is forbidden. Plus policing ( cleaning up ) your brass is also mandatory.
 
The outdoor range I'm a member of has a rule that you have to pick up your brass you shoot during every cease fire period. Once you pick up your brass it's your choice to do whatever you like with it. During live fire it is forbidden to pick up brass at all. Once brass is picked up they have buckets marked "scrap brass" and once it's in that bucket it's fair game to anyone that gets to it.

Last year we had a guy doing very similar to the guy you have described. During live fire he reached between another members legs and picked up a piece of brass that the member had just shot. Well the next week that member had his membership pulled and wasn't allowed to come back. He lost it more of a safety concern than he did for picking up a piece of brass.
 
Talk to whoever is in charge at the range. Taking someones brass off their shooting bench is theft and a very stupid thing to do.
 
KY DAN said:
So back story here, I have been a member of Tri County gun club in providence Ky for a few years now and I really enjoy the time I spend there with the exception of one thing.......(Jaws music) The brass thief!!!!
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If you have a problem with a member that is not acting accordingly, then you need to bring the matter to those presiding over the country club.
 
At my range, you can pick up your own brass and any other laying about as long as it’s not obviously someone else’s and you don’t make a big production out of it. The range scraps the brass for extra money to pay their helpers who are otherwise volunteering.

Unfortunately these common sense type rules always get messed up by one idiot who thinks they are special because they paid for the pleasure (just like everyone else)
 
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The guy will even walk up and talk to you at the bench and pick up the brass on the table you just shot. Ask all you want but your not getting any where with him.
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No I'm not asking someone if they'll put my brass down. Just...no. He obviously does this because people allow him to.

We have a couple brass hawks that like to act like they're shooting and like to slide in every now and then, but they at least come up and offer to sweep all your brass if you don't want it. After simply saying in a friendly way that I keep mine, they don't ask again.

I will also sometimes preemptively sweep my brass a little more often and keep my pile near me and my open brass box to let it be known I'm keeping it.
 
This is not a really difficult question.
As mentioned go to the Board, Owners whoever is in charge.

Cease and Desist
 
I have seen members come to the range in the later afternoon to pick up brass on the ground and didn't even shoot. Didn't even pretend to shoot and didn't bring any gun.

I have seen members pretend to shoot with guns but spent most of their time picking up brass.

I have seen members who only picked up brass they shot and left other brass on the ground.

I had members help me pick up brass for me as they did not reload.

I was a member of one club where everyone picked up brass (Club had keep clean, no trash on ground policy) and dumped in 55 gallon drums at each range bay and anyone who reloaded was free to help themselves as much as they wanted. That was a great range for reloaders as drums were usually 1/3 to 1/2 full. I usually only took a few hundred cases of caliber I reloaded and left rest for other members.

I never ran across anyone like OP mentioned. Usually, people waited until you were done shooting and asked if they could pick up your brass. If they asked nicely, even though I reloaded, I often said "Yes".
 
At a local public range there is a woman brass hog camped out dawn to dusk almost every day and weekends for sure.
I've had to wait for an open bay, she gets to it before me, and expects ME to wait for her to scrounge the brass...not.
She even has a "driver" that quickly sprints to any bay where it appears the shooters are leaving and acts like he's going to shoot there, doesn't fool me though.

There are about a dozen bays with side berms separations and I try to setup deep inside the bay, out of the line of sight (fire) of the others.
Other shooters do this too and brass ends up deeper into some bays and I've had the seen/caught the Brass Hog deep(er) into MY bay while I was SHOOTING :what:.
I've had other shooters walk down range to put out targets, in the same bay that I am SHOOTING in :uhoh:.

I have a HF 8x10' mesh tarp ($20) in a bucket with a brick and 4 stakes.
I put the bucket in the center of the brass landing area, pull out and stake the 4 corners of the tarp.
To pickup the brass I just un-stake the corners, fold up the stakes/tarp with the brass in it, into the bucket...done.
I cannot imagine anyone seeing the brass ON THE TARP and not understanding that the brass is mine.

I was once confronted by an irate/confrontational individual when I was obviously "armed" (shotgun), deep in the woods, and attempted to de-escalate the situation but the irate person was having none of it, even after I pointed out that I was armed.
I had what has been my only ND to date, luckily it went into the ground at our feet, and no one was hurt...but that ended the situation/discussion quickly.
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