Vanishing Brass Day

[Hey_Allen]

All this talk of scrounging brass prompted me to snag a good bit when I was last at the range.

I'm surprised at the apparent load popularity in my area.
From this one day's gleanings, I found approximately 30 rounds of .454 Cassull, 40 of .45 ACP, 242 of .40 S&W, 51 of .380 auto, about 50-60 each of .38SPL and .357 Mag, as well as about 20 of 9mm.

The entertaining part about the 9mm were the 8 rounds that I separated that someone seems to have loaded VERY hot. blown primers in half of them, deformed webs, and flattened to the point of being nearly unreadable head stampings.


The down side of this little project in shooting demographics is that I'm now considering whether or not I go find a gun to feed one or more of these loads to!


Evil, all of you and the brass at the range as well!

 

[BeJaRa]

The public range I go to has really cracked down on the brass scroungers in the last year. It is no problem to pick up your brass or If someone else says you can ahve their brass, but some hispanic guys were hanging around picking up empties. 2 of them started crawling out in front of a HOT fireing line to get brass. Long story short the ROs caught them and run them off so no more massive brass retrival operations. I personally like the way it is now since you don't have the scroungers aggrivating the crap out of everyone. Plus we used to have some commercial reloaders hang out at the range on the weekends, and they had a deal with RO to collect brass so they would get frequent cold ranges to go get brass. That was freaking annoying having to stop all the time so these guys could get free brass. I did get in an argument with a commercial reloading guy that was trying to pick up my LC brass with "match" headstamp