[Been shooting range brass for 40 years. Even stuff dug out of the dirt. I don't throw anything away./QUOTE]
We live in a small desert commnity here in AZ, but there are a lot of Californians who have winter homes and come over to boat on the river. Best part is, they love to shoot their guns and leave brass laying around at all the popular shooting places. The wife and I are brass scoungers from the word go, so we take the ATV's out every couple weeks and load up on brass.
We nust have found a couple thousand 9mm empties, and we don't even own a gun for them, but still pick them up each and every time.