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brass at the range

airbornerizzairbornerizz Member Posts: 674 ✭✭✭✭
edited March 2013 in General Discussion
Just wondering why no one picks up their brass? These days one would figure it just makes economical sense. My last trip netted me a handful of 40, 45, and some 223. The 223 were mixed, hornady, pmc, and lake city
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  • airbornerizzairbornerizz Member Posts: 674 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Oh, and I only fired my 308
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  • KEVD18KEVD18 Member Posts: 15,037
    edited November -1
    i dont reload. im not even in the ball park of being in a place in my life where reloading is even an option. nor do i scrap metal, nor do i have the time, inclination, or patience to put stuff away for such a time to come to pass when any of the above changes.

    i sweep my brass up and dump it in the bin for brass so you scavengers can have at it. i like to know someone is reloading it or just recycling the scrap. i could be a dick and dump it in the trash(as ive seen others do, but i'll walk the extra 5 feet so that someone else can re-use it.
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  • mogley98mogley98 Member Posts: 18,291 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have a brass vacuum that reloads and its a GB member :)
    Why don't we go to school and work on the weekends and take the week off!
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  • 1911a1-fan1911a1-fan Member Posts: 51,193 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    You should be thankfull they don't, they are like vultures at ranges around here
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  • airbornerizzairbornerizz Member Posts: 674 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I don't reload, but I know someone who does. I wish I would've gotten into reloading though...
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  • chris8X57chris8X57 Member Posts: 1,268 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I've been picking up my 8X57 ( who would've guessed ? ) brass for 30 years. [:)]

    ~Chris
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  • wiplashwiplash Member Posts: 7,145 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Wow, Scavengers and Vultures! Really?
    There is no such thing as Liberal Men, only Liberal Women with Penises.'
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  • torosapotorosapo Member Posts: 4,946
    edited November -1
    This time of year only locals at the range, they mostly pick up their brass for reloading. When it warms up we get people from the Vegas area up here, they don't pick up their brass as much. Thats when I get the most.
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  • PanzerSlayer2PanzerSlayer2 Member Posts: 1,798 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    We kind of have an understanding with some of the locals. We get to shoot and they get the brass.
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  • JustCJustC Member Posts: 16,056 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hey, if mine looks like yours,..how am I supposed to tell the difference[;)]

    the signs say "pick up only your own brass",...but they don't have serial numbers, sooooooo. there are so many benches and so many pistol ranges (outside) that all brass looks like mine.
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  • reloader44magreloader44mag Member Posts: 18,783 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by wiplash
    Wow, Scavengers and Vultures! Really?


    recyclers[;)]
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  • Duce1Duce1 Member Posts: 9,329
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by reloader44mag
    quote:Originally posted by wiplash
    Wow, Scavengers and Vultures! Really?


    recyclers[;)]



    Darn right,
    It kind of pee`s me off about it but I can not stop it.

    I would kill for 308. Never can find enough of it.
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  • ChrisInTempeChrisInTempe Member Posts: 15,562 ✭
    edited November -1
    Range Officer tried to stop me from picking up my own brass. 9mm and .223. Told me every case that hit the ground belongs to the range. I told him I would leave with all of the mess I created that I could leave with, that the range could keep the bullets but the rest was mine.

    So during target changing breaks I'd pick up my brass. R.O. came by again and told me if I wasn't changing targets I had to be behind the yellow line.

    At that point I told him I was packing up to leave. He walked away and just cuz I was pissed off I picked up some .45ACP brass left by a shooter that left before me.

    Never been back, that's two years ago. This place:
    http://www.riosaladosportsmans.com/
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  • JustCJustC Member Posts: 16,056 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by ChrisInTempe
    Range Officer tried to stop me from picking up my own brass. 9mm and .223. Told me every case that hit the ground belongs to the range. I told him I would leave with all of the mess I created that I could leave with, that the range could keep the bullets but the rest was mine.

    So during target changing breaks I'd pick up my brass. R.O. came by again and told me if I wasn't changing targets I had to be behind the yellow line.

    At that point I told him I was packing up to leave. He walked away and just cuz I was pissed off I picked up some .45ACP brass left by a shooter that left before me.

    Never been back, that's two years ago. This place:
    http://www.riosaladosportsmans.com/




    I have seen them looking at me as well,...like they are pissed because I am picking up my brass so they can't sell it. Since the first time they dared to tell me I couldn't pick up my brass, I have taken every single piece I can put my hands on, just out of spite[}:)]
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  • ChrisInTempeChrisInTempe Member Posts: 15,562 ✭
    edited November -1
    I have seen shooters set up these screens made of PVC pipe and shade cloth. Stops the brass and it falls on the table. Cloth is kind of loose, so it doesn't act as a vertical trampoline.

    Maybe I should do that too.
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  • midnightrunpaintballermidnightrunpaintballer Member Posts: 2,233 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I pick up all of my handgun brass. But the AR throws it too far. I absolutely refuse to put the effort into hunting it down and then picking it up. No way!









    I should probably add that the AR wears a brass catcher too... [:D]
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  • nemesisenforcernemesisenforcer Member Posts: 10,513 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I was picking up brass as soon as I was old enough to go shooting with my dad and have been ever since. This was literally decades before we started reloading on our own BTW.

    I scrounge whenever and whatever I can from the range and have benefited tremendously from it. Probably well over 50% of the stuff I've handloaded has been fired by someone else the first time.
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  • torosapotorosapo Member Posts: 4,946
    edited November -1
    We don't have any range Nazis officers at our county shooting complex.[:D]
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  • wiplashwiplash Member Posts: 7,145 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by torosapo
    We don't have any range Nazis officers at our county shooting complex.[:D]


    If they keep burning it down they will! [;)]
    There is no such thing as Liberal Men, only Liberal Women with Penises.'
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  • KEVD18KEVD18 Member Posts: 15,037
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by wiplash
    Wow, Scavengers and Vultures! Really?




    well, i dont consider the use of the term scavenger in this context to be pejorative. i didnt mean any offense by it. scavenger is defined as a person who searches for and collects discarded items. in the context of this discussion, i cant think of a more appropriate word.
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  • JustCJustC Member Posts: 16,056 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by KEVD18
    quote:Originally posted by wiplash
    Wow, Scavengers and Vultures! Really?




    well, i dont consider the use of the term scavenger in this context to be pejorative. i didnt mean any offense by it. scavenger is defined as a person who searches for and collects discarded items. in the context of this discussion, i cant think of a more appropriate word.




    I believe "reloader" was the word you were searching for[;)]
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  • footlongfootlong Member Posts: 8,009
    edited November -1
    The 'kid' started picking up brass at 5 and shooting at 7. We called the spent brass "bullet eggs" because it would 'hatch' into loaded rounds to be shot again [^]
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  • ChrisInTempeChrisInTempe Member Posts: 15,562 ✭
    edited November -1
    I shoot on public land, various places outside the greater Phoenix metro area. I always scavenge for brass. Some days I find a lot, some days next to nothing.

    Got out to one popular shooting spot one day just as the sun was rising. Found two older ladies already there walking around with plastic buckets, picking up brass.

    One persons trash left on the ground with not a second thought is another person's Brass Mine I guess [:D]
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  • kidthatsirishkidthatsirish Member Posts: 6,983 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I dont reload...yet, but I do pick up my brass.[;)]
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  • CbtEngr01CbtEngr01 Member Posts: 4,340
    edited November -1
    at the local outdoor range they had a couple buckets and a trash can. Each used to have a bunch of brass. Last time I went there there was no brass to be found.
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  • dreherdreher Member Posts: 8,891 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I used to shoot at Rio Salada back in the late 80s early 90s. Thought it was a great place to shoot, very reasonable priced, friendly people, nice range officers. Sounds like the times have changed.[V]
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  • jwhardingjwharding Member Posts: 2,897 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Bought some land a few months back, me an my 4 year old grandson go there all the time an shoot. He loves taking a coffee can an going gold hunting. He will spend hours walking around picking up all of brass even .22's.
    Jw
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