Recovering your brass at the range

[Dudemeister]

What percentage of your brass do you recover at the range?

I seem to do about 80% of my own and then I end up refilling the box with someone else's spent brass.

I've gotten in the habit of marking my rounds with a red Sharpie pen around the primer, which makes them easy to identify.

 

[rcmodel]

I used to lose about 40% in the weeds and gravel where I shoot.
More recently I have been getting close to 100%.

I got a big old beer advertising patio umbrella from a local watering hole free when they got new ones.

Placed upside down on the ground in the right place, it catches most all my auto pistol brass.

rc

 

[Dudemeister]

I used to lose about 40% in the weeds and gravel where I shoot.
More recently I have been getting close to 100%.

I got a big old beer advertising patio umbrella from a local watering hole free when they got new ones.

Placed upside down on the ground in the right place, it catches most all my auto pistol brass.

rc

Wish I could do that, but I shoot at a range so the ejected brass ricochets of the partition walls and goes all over the place. Some of it goes goes forward of the firing line so that's lost to me.

 

[Blue68f100]

I built a brass catcher that works fine at the indoor range I shoot at. Catches close to 100%. It's made out of a 50 cal ammo box (MTM), tripod legs and mosquitoe netting. I just set it on the bench. I do have to drop the front left support leg to clear the target carrier. I do have a top to go on it for one gun that throws brass over the top. When I shoot outdoors I use a shopmate to hold for my bench.

 

[danweasel]

I counted for the first time a few weeks ago. 83 out of 100.

 

[Big Nugget]

When I shoot off the bench I use one of these. http://www.walmart.com/ip/Mainstays-Basic-Pop-Up-Hamper/17163764 I picked one up for about $2. I'll toss my stapler or something with a little wieght inside it to keep it from blowing of the table. Our MDC range just had a face lift so I'm no longer hunting and pecking in the grass for my brass. I'll still might end up loosing a piece or two but there are plenty of shooters who don't want their brass so as long as they don't mind I "help" clean up. If I'm shooting on our property I just use a tarp.

 

[45lcshooter]

Im a scavanger at the range, i pick everything up. But the patio umbrella and the ammo can idea are GREAT IDEAS!!! PROPS to both of you!!!!

 

[ColtPythonElite]

This topic is one of the reasons why I prefer revolvers.

 

[303tom]

Im like 45lcshooter, I pick up every thing I can find when I am done shooting, even if it is not mine............Brass is over 2 bucks a lb.

 

[Dudemeister]

The ranges I go to only allow you to pick your own brass. Granted they're not going to check your bag when you leave, but they don't like it when you start hunting for brass on the other lanes.

But I agree about revolvers. The nice thing is that you can start with a bunch of new brass, and keep track of exactly how many times it was reloaded. This is what I do with all my .45LC

 

[ambidextrous1]

When I have recovered 80 to 90% of my brass, I'm happy; the ones I don't get take too much searching time. I have a few thousand empty cases of the calibers I shoot & reload, so I don't sweat the small attrition.

 

[W.E.G.]

All your brass is belong to me.

 

[Dudemeister]

I feel the need to correct your grammar:

"All you brass ARE belong to me"

 

[cfullgraf]

I spread out a large drop cloth. Some pistols still spit cases to the four winds. I does ok with semi-auto rifles except when standing.

I usually recover 100% of my cases.

I am working on using an EZ-Up canopy with curtains on the side and back to allow me a bit more freedom of movement.

It helps that I am able to shoot on my property.

 

[evan price]

150%. I get back way more than I shoot.

 

[Hit_Factor]

A couple of my guns punish the brass so severely I'm reticent to reload them: .460 Magnum, 9mm Major.

Some brass I have a ready supply of free brass.

Sometimes it's a lost brass match and the RO's get the brass. Sometimes I'm the RO receiving the brass.

Sometimes there is a big pile of once fired sitting there for the taking.

Sometimes I shoot a revolver and the moon clips keep it in a neat bundle and all of it is recovered.

So most of the time it just depends.

 

[Certaindeaf]

I suspect that Clark just leaves his brass lie.. "Sure, you can have my brass, knock yourself out!". lolz

 

[beatledog7]

I have never marked my brass for easy ID other than to distinguish different test loads.

When I shoot handguns indoors, I try to make sure I don't leave with fewer cases than I fired. Since I shoot and reload a number of handgun cartridges, I don't really mind if I shot 50 9mm but left the range with ten or so each of 5 different cases.

I don't pick up anyone else's brass without asking. Most shooters are happy to let me clean up their stall after they leave. I can't remember a single range visit when I felt shorted on brass.

Outdoors, I have used a king-size bed sheet to great success: on one occasion with my brass-flinging Glock 22, 213 cases out of 222 rounds fired were on the sheet.

 

[BYJO4]

Since I started marking the base of my brass, I come back with at least 95% of my cases. Even those around me will hand me my brass when they see the marking.

 

[1SOW]

Dudemeister :re the partition walls.
Make a cloth/netting that hangs on the wall with Duct tape. Funnel it down to a 'catch' at the bottom. With two dowells or 'other', make front and rear deflectors so they are 'all' funnelled to the catch. Similar to Post#4

Basically, you just have to hang it up when you get there.

 

[FROGO207]

I shoot my Mini 14's and always seem to leave the range with way more 223 brass than rounds expended. Just usually not the same brass I started with. That ends up in low earth orbit usually.

 

[1SOW]

OOOPs.

 

[GLOOB]

My 223 and 9mm brass seems to multiply to the point where I only bother to pick up the ones clumped together with my other calibers. The other calibers, I come home with pretty close to 100%.

I've gotten in the habit of marking my rounds with a red Sharpie pen around the primer, which makes them easy to identify.

I could care less with any of my semi auto pistol brass. I'm not going to sort through them by looking at the case head. I might not bother, even if my cases glowed in the dark. My revo and boltie brass, yeah, but those cases don't go very far.

 

[Larry the Liberal]

I recover 100% of my brass at the range. For some reason there is always 1 piece missing ... drives me crazy until I find it. Also, I'm a Safety Range Officer at my club ... folks tend to just give me their brass when they're done for the day.

 

[Dudemeister]

Since I started marking the base of my brass, I come back with at least 95% of my cases. Even those around me will hand me my brass when they see the marking.

The same thing is happening to me. Most of the shooters around me see the brass with the red ring and point it to me when they realize what I'm looking for.

Most of the brass I loose is the brass that flies forward of the firing line