Sometimes range slobs are so bad....

[jeepmor]

, I mean good, for leaving me their empties. I found about 150-200 Lake City 223 brass casings today at the range....woohoo. Maybe more. I also had a fellow ask to use my target stand, no problem, got about 50 40S&W from him, then another guy was plinking his 357 mag, scooped up a dozen or so from him. Sharing is good. They punch holes in my paper, I scoop up their brass. Nice trade if you ask me. Note to self, more targets, free brass, fair trade. I'm bent over looking for mine anyway. Almost makes you feel like a knuckle dragging gorilla. Another 223, bend scoop, smile.

Found nearly all of my 45 brass and came home with plastic produce bag half full. LC brass is tumbling now, will be bright and shiny by morning and added to the coffers. Good day. I had to head out early for a dinner appointment at Jakes Crawfish house downtown. Those of you Stumptowners who've never been, I recommend you go. It's one of the best restaurants in Portland, seriously. I think it's one of the few restaurants worth cutting your plinking session short for....mmmm, food coma. Fresh Dungeness crab special, delicious. Sorry to segway, in food coma now.

 

[MechAg94]

Our range 4H cans to collect brass. I encourage anyone who doesn't reload to put them in there. At least help the kids in their shooting.

 

[Sunray]

Sharing is communism. snicker. The problem with range pick up brass is that you never know how many times it has been loaded, what it has been loaded with or how it has been treated.

 

[Cougfan2]

"I had to head out early for a dinner appointment at Jakes Crawfish house downtown. "

Ditto on Jakes although the wife and I like the Harborside as well.

Trick I learned from my Btother after hunting down the brass my AR was kicking out 15ft away. If you don't want to use a brasscatcher and are shooting from a covered range, buy a couple of spring clamps and a clear shower curtain hang it next to your bench to your right. The empties will hit the shower curtain and drop them in a nice little pile.

 

[FM12]

I loves me some range brass! Just like free money!

 

[jeepmor]

I don't believe it is reloaded by virtue of it all having the crimp still intact on the primers. If this crimp was lacking, I would suspect more than just a once fired brass, absolutely.

Harborside, gonna have to try that one out, thanks for the tip.

I guess reloaders could be called range monkeys. You know, the ones always bent over with their knuckles dragging on the ground picking up empties.

 

[ID_shooting]

I pick and load range brass all the time. I usually carry garbage bags with me anyway to help pick things up slobs leave so I will police brass too. As for not knowing if it has been reloaded or not, you can tell, not 100% but close enough. Sealant on the primers, crimp on the primers, crimp on the neck done by a machine, no sizing die marks, and the good ole watching the guy open a new boxes of 30-06, shoot 100 and then leave them behind, that was a good day for me

 

[Wil Terry]

I am having trouble understanding who is the slob here, you or the other guys ??

 

[BeJaRa]

I bring a broom, a dust pan with long handle and an old cleaned out 1 gallon paint bucket. I can usually leave the pistol range with enough 40sw 45 and 9mm to keep me and my stepdad happy for a long time. The rifle range usually only has steel cased wolf ammo in 223 and 308. I did luck out one weekend and get 40+ peices of LC 30-06 brass.

 

[jeepmor]

I am having trouble understanding who is the slob here, you or the other guys ??

We pick up the brass they leave behind. You do the math.

Actually, I fouled that title up a bit and had to backpedal on the way I worded it. You can't edit the title once submitted.

 

[redneck2]

I am having trouble understanding who is the slob here, you or the other guys ??

LMAO

Typically if they reload they're not gonna leave their brass. Hard to reload if it's laying at the range.

 

[Uncle Don]

Sharing is communism. snicker. The problem with range pick up brass is that you never know how many times it has been loaded, what it has been loaded with or how it has been treated.

You're right, but to me it doesn't matter because I shoot it until it splits. From the point I pick it up until it does split is all free. Most of what I pick up is new (should say did, I have a good supply now) because used stuff is generally reloaders who take it with them anyway.

 

[evan price]

Yup, love it when people fire & forget. What's best is revolver shooters who very conscientiously put all their brass one-by-one back into the trays and boxes it came in scarcely an hour before, and drop it in the trash barrel. Thankee, kind sirs, for over 800 .38, .357, .44 Mag & SPC so far this way in the past 6 weeks.
So far I have about 3-gallons of .223 brass, LC going from '07 all the way back to the 70's, Seller & Bellot, plus a lot of Match stuff.

I used to carry a magnet with me when I scrounge- most of the copper washed Wolf crap I can tell at a glance now, but there is some brass washed x39 out there that fools me until I check the headstamps and see chinese characters.
Now, I have a strong worklight on my bench with a strong magnet stuck to the base. Dump, spread, run magnet over it all, weed out the 9x18 Mak cases that are silver steel but look like nickle brass. Check rifle cases for Berdan primers (drop in scrap bucket if found). Got lucky, was decapping 9mm and discovered BEFORE I broke a pin that there was some odd milsurp 9mm luger that is Berdan primed. <sigh> now I check HS on 9mms.

I sort into 5-gallon buckets with snapon lids.

I have one full of 9mm, working on #2... One half full of .45 acp, one half full of .40 S&W, one half full of .223, one half full of 30-06, one 3/4 full of mixed .38, .38+p, .357, .44mag, .44spc, all in individual bags. Plus large butter tubs 3/4 full of .308, 10mm, 7.62x39, .308, .380 Auto, and one full Kool-Whip tub of misc loaded rounds that were dropped and lost.

 

[donkee]

Pistol brass, I usually don't care and pickup whatever I can use. Rifle brass, I collect all the 30-06 and .223 I can find and keep the ones that still have the crimps. Any others, into the possible scrap can. One day I'll do the paper clip test on them and decide if I'm going to use them for anything.