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what a bunch of slobs

pantera7974pantera7974 Member Posts: 938 ✭✭✭✭
edited August 2002 in General Discussion
i went to the range today to fire my russian m44 my wife bought me, while i was gathering my stuff to leave , i noticed all the brass everywhere, the rules say your supposed to pick up after yourself, i mean hundreds of rounds of all calibers, most rusted, if i go with 20 rounds, i leave with my 20 fired brass, am i just expecting too much of people to follow rules or are some people just lazy???
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  • salzosalzo Member Posts: 6,396 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    It always bother me when the slightest infraction is comitted at the rifle range. From speeding on the grounds, to not cleaning up brass. If you break one rule, it makes it much easier to break another rule.

    "Sometimes the people have to give up some individual rights for the safety of society."
    -Bill Clinton(MTV interview)
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  • timberbeasttimberbeast Member Posts: 1,738 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Every range I've been to, the guys LOVE it if you leave your brass lay, unless it's 7.62 or .22. it gets cleaned up real fast. I don't reload, so I just set my brass on the bench for the reloaders, and they love it. Same with hulls on the trap and skeet ranges. The club reloads them and sells them cheap to the guys in the trap leagues. The rule seems to be, where I go: "If it's reloadable, leave it for the reloaders, if it isn't, that's what that big barrel is for."
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  • v35v35 Member Posts: 12,710 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    That's one of the down sides of the cheap Russky ammo. It is non reloadable Berdan primed and nobody picks it up. I see it rusting away at our range in 7.62x39, 7.62x54, .223, 9mm Luger and Makarov.
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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I pick up all my own brass and any other that's lying around. When I get home, I sort it by group: cases for me, cases to sell / trade, scrap brass. And I try to pick up as much of the steel case crap as I can - like timberbeast said, that's what the barrels are for. Our range usually looks pretty good. I don't usually leave with much more than I shot, but sometimes I get lucky. There was a post on this site recently about a range which had several inches of brass on the ground. I figure that must have been in Palm Beach or Beverly Hills . . .
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  • lokdok1lokdok1 Member Posts: 383 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Nope, Tannersville Pa. or there-abouts
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  • woodsrunnerwoodsrunner Member Posts: 5,378 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm one of those people that pick up brass. Even rimfire cases get picked up and taken to the scrap metal dealer a couple times a year. All once fired reloadable brass gets either sold or traded to the reloading component dealer. The stuff I sell to the scrap yard adds up to a couple pounds of powder a year.

    Woods the scotsman
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