Range Rats, how much brass is enough brass?

[PTK]

I pick up all my brass for reloading. I pick up all additional brass that no one else wants for scrap. Win-win.

 

[strat81]

"I have so much brass, Olin calls me for raw materials."
"I have so much brass, The Beastie Boys wrote a song about me."

 

[PTK]

Double post.

 

[achildofthesky]

Never enough...

quote-"This guy at last weeks USPSA shoot put on a plastic glove and probably filled his plastic bag with 1000 casings off the floor between stages. He did look a little nutty but no one said anything. Probably worth his time, but I have a little more pride than that."

It likely WAS worth his time and I take every piece I can but I ALWAYS, ALWAYS ask first about brass near shooters. I have had numerous folks get brass from their cars and trucks that they were saving but don't reload. I also volunteer tools and supplies like spare targets, hanger pins and other stuff to those needing help. What goes around is helped coming around by me where I can...

5 5 gallon buckets of 9mm, 223, 45, mixed rifle spell: a new relading setup, new rifles, bullets, primers, powder tires and fuel for the car, new rifles, xmas gifts and just plain $$$ for the stuff I don't reload.

Free money, no name, must be mine...

Patty
an truely shameless, totally unrepentant brass monger

 

[Noxx]

Picked up over 400 cases for .40 this morning while using the range the police prefer.

I don't even own a .40. May have to address that.

 

[amlevin]

Picked up over 400 cases for .40 this morning while using the range the police prefer.

I don't even own a .40. May have to address that.

Even if you don't buy a .40, the brass is worth $1.32/lb. Helps pay for the primers, powder, etc.

 

[FieroCDSP]

Sounds like a good reason to buy an M&P 40, to me.

 

[brasskeeper]

My Name is brasskeeper and I'm a brassaholic

 

[Master Blaster]

you can never be too rich, too thin, or have enough brass in the calibers you reload.

 

[Walkalong]

Sounds like there is a consensus. Never enough brass.

 

[Smokey Joe]

Helping hands...

Childofthesky--

I also volunteer tools and supplies like spare targets, hanger pins and other stuff to those needing help. What goes around is helped coming around by me where I can...

Yep, that's how! Need tape or stapler for targets? Need a target? Need a gunsmith screwdriver? Vice-grip? Got 'em in my car, just a sec! Need a suggestion like "Buy yrself an ABC's of Reloading?" Happy to oblige! You got some unwanted brass for me? Nice! No? Well, I'll still help you. It'll come home to roost somehow. Hey, thanks, everybody's happy.

 

[evan price]

My brass scrounging once yielded me a nearly-free gun.

Of course it needs a firing pin repaired.

Old timer had been carrying it forever & didn't know what to do with it...

Saw me grubbing brass, asked about reloading, gave me a bunch of his .45 cases, then said, Hey, do you like to tinker, check this out...

$10 for a Pieper vest-pocket .25 circa 1947. All steel. Kinda neet.

 

[FLORIDA KEVIN]

I think smokey joe has it right ! do what you can ! not just what you have to do ! help people whenever you can ! it will come back around !

 

[SDDL-UP]

I've been given literally THOUSANDS of rounds of 40 S&W brass because I was the only one of my friends that owned one. I save stuff for them that I don't have like 44 Mag. and 30-30, but I have most calibers they do.

It looks like someone probably burned up the barrel of their 264 Winchester on Friday. I picked up 57 rounds of once fired brass, and just knowing how some shooter are, they were probably there for a whole hour. It probably melted itself to the case when they put it away!