your brass recovery rate?

[mr_dove]

What is everyones brass recovery rates. The number you took to the range versus the number you take home?

I'm pretty anal. I usually count every one and I sift through the "brass bucket" at the range until I am at 100%.

I sent my wife to the range on friday. She shot 150 rounds and came home with 95 brass. She's not anal about it like I am though.

 

[db_tanker]

I normally have a 150% recovery rate...



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[shermacman]

Mine is precisely 0%.
It is like home brewed beer. I would love to, I would like to, but I do not have the time.

 

[Lennyjoe]

For 10MM it's 100%.

For all others it is usually about 90%. Just don't take the time to go after .45as much as the 10MM brass.

 

[LHB1]

My brass recovery rate is right at 100% since I bought the CMM brass catcher:

http://www.cm-machine.bigstep.com/item.jhtml?UCIDs=6006|6007&PRID=97882

A little expensive on the front end but is really great in use and saves lots of hassle. Wish I had found one like it long ago.

Good shooting and be safe.
LB

 

[ReloaderFred]

If it's brass, and it's reloadable, then it goes home with me. Even the foreign Berdan primed cases come home, if they're made of brass. Everything that I can't load goes into the scrap box and then when I get over 100 pounds, it's sold for scrap. The last trip to the scrap dealer netted me over $200 for "junk". I used the money for buying more primers and bullets.

Waste not, want not.

Fred

 

[wolf_from_wv]

Usually runs 300-400% depending on the day.

The best was the day I shot 50 rounds and came back with a clay pidgeon box with brass and shotshells and a walmart bag of shotshells. Also, I tend to bring any little parts I happen to find... Like the two 7 and 8 shot pellet cylinders for my pistol that someone left behind.

 

[Mal H]

When shooting at my range down in the woods, I feel good if I can find 90%; at a public range, it's usually 100%+.

 

[rchernandez]

Shooting mostly at an indoor range using a brass catcher, my recovery rates are:

.45acp 125%
.38spl 100% (nice thing about revolvers)
.32S&W Long 95% :banghead:

My Benelli MP95E in 32SWL occasionally "shoots" brass forward! Best times are when shooting next to folks with boxes of WWB! Once fired brass!

 

[Grump]

Usually about 90 percent. I'm trying to put the shooting stool in front of the ejection patter now. That's outdoors

Indoor ranges--depends on my mood and whether they let me put the broom ahead of the firing line. Best days--95-120% depending on caliber, worst days can be 66% when I can't sweep and/or there's just too big of a pile to sweep through.

Indoor ranges should have a "drain" type ditch from 10 feet in front of the firing point to a nice bucket at the shooter's feet.

 

[hpcc19]

What is everyones brass recovery rates. The number you took to the range versus the number you take home?

My rate is 105% for 45ACP. 80% mine, 25% others...BTW I successfully reloaded my first 2 AMERC rounds yesterday.

 

[taliv]

probably 85-90%

for 45acp i only shoot nickel, so it's a little easier to find. when i shoot out of my carbine, and for 223, i typically use a brass catcher so the rate gets a lot closer to 100%

 

[ocabj]

Bolt action rifle? I get it all.

Semi-auto rifle? I'll occasionally lose 1 out of a 100.

Semi-auto handgun? I'll maybe lose 10 out of 50 on a bad day. 5 out of 50 on a normal day.

Revolver? Don't own one.

 

[MCgunner]

I'm not too anal about finding all my 9mm since I buy a lot of it at Wallyworld since it's so friggin' cheap. .45 I try to catch all I can, .380, too. My others are revolvers, 100%. My .22s, zero percent.

All my rifles are bolt guns except for two SKSs and a Hakim which I mostly shoot cheap surplus berdan stuff in.

 

[palerider1]

80-90% of my own and then some of the others.

 

[Moonclip]

Rare milsurp calibers 100%. 38spl,I have a lot already but otherwise near 100%. Most other calibers like 45acp and 9mmpara I let other have them.

 

[larryw]

Two years ago, my wife bought me a CMM brass catcher for Father's Day (I married WAY up), ever since then it's 100% for pistol. O/U shotgun makes it easy for hulls. And of my long guns, the semis usually eat milsurp/Wolf.

 

[Peter M. Eick]

I use a cmm brass catcher also. On the bigger calibers, 45, 10mm, 40, I get about 95%. On the smaller 380's/9mm I get about 85 to 90%. If you take into account the public range I shoot at, I normally bring back around 200% or so.

 

[cidirkona]

-7%

I take the brass I find in the parking lot and during my jog around my neighborhood and drop if off at the range's brass buckets.

-Colin

PS Just kidding, my neighborhood isn't that bad...

...the gangstas pick up all their brass.

 

[The Bushmaster]

Take a guess...You shoot it and don't take it home. I do plus mine...

 

[trickyasafox]

85% semi auto pistol, 100% rifle and revolver

 

[caz223]

9mm, 75%, .40 80%, everything else at least 90%.

 

[Kramer Krazy]

Naturally, 100% from all revolvers. For autos, I'd figure 80-120%. I sometimes will go through the bucket at the indoor range, but usually only if I can find a lot of brass of the same headstamp or if it is the same type of brass that I'm spitting out that day (typically Winchester).

 

[TooTaxed]

Generally about 400 or 500%, as there's always lots of cases at our range free for the pick up. Gonna have to go easy for awhile, as I'm swimming in brass!

 

[dmftoy1]

I'm about 97%. I always lay out a big tarp next to where I'm shooting and it catches most of them and I spend time letting the barrel cool by looking for brass. When my next door neighbor shoots with me then I'm up close to 200%.

Have a good one,
Dave