Never thought that this would happen...

[Speedo2]

...too much brass left at the range by all these newbe shooters.

It's gotten to the point that even us brass scroungers are leaving stuff on the ground. Me and my Monday morning brass hounds are wearing ourselves out doing the chicken dance in all this heat. I find myself deliberately avoiding all the piles of 40S&W and 223 that are left. I guess that I've become selective, or something. However, I did find (and stoop for) a cache of 357Max and 38Spl. This just seems weird to me, the stuff that people are leaving on the ground.

Anyone else seeing this at their ranges?

 

[pasote]

have not able to get to the range

With all this covid19 I have not been able to get to the range. I have plenty of brass though to keep me busy

 

[BC38]

My favorite range out by my lake cabin has a brass hog that goes there EVERY day an picks up every round he can find. If you find anything more than your own to be picked up you're lucky.

Of course he acts like he's been appointed as some kind of defacto range master or like he's the guy who owns the range too (its actually DNR land).

I was able to pick up a hundred or so 9mm, a hand full of 45acp, and a couple of boxes worth of 223 when I was there Friday.

The brass hog was up at the other end of the range and we had some new shooters close by who didn't want their brass. I jumped in and picked it up just on principle.

 

[kenjen]

Had a guy at the club called him Brass Bob, picked up everything in sight. I know for a fact that he doesn't reload. So Maybe he takes it to the scrap yard or gives to someone

 

[BC38]

Had a guy at the club called him Brass Bob, picked up everything in sight. I know for a fact that he doesn't reload. So Maybe he takes it to the scrap yard or gives to someone

Yeah, our brass hog is a retired guy who is processing and selling the brass he can't use himself to generate beer money.
I have no problem with that - if he weren't such a hog about it and didn't act like he owns the place.

 

[Oracle]

The range I use has a clean up your own brass policy, behind the firing line of course. There is a brass collector, I can't tell you the name we have for him without violating forum rules, that is there at least twice a day. He will grab a squeegee and go up and down the firing line raking the brass including around and in front of shooters feet as they are shooting.

 

[BC38]

The range I use has a clean up your own brass policy, behind the firing line of course. There is a brass collector, I can't tell you the name we have for him without violating forum rules, that is there at least twice a day. He will grab a squeegee and go up and down the firing line raking the brass including around and in front of shooters feet as they are shooting.

Yeah, he'd only do the "sweep around your feet" thing to me ONE time. Especially if he was sweeping up MY brass.
I have a name for that kind of person that I CAN use here without fear of getting a ding. I call them THEIVES.

 

[jimbo728]

I hate it when that happens. no kidding.
Jim

 

[.38SuperMan]

There's always plenty of 223 and 40 as you said but lately there's been a lot of 45 acp. Over two or three trips recently I've picked up an ammo can full. There's never a shortage of 9mm also.

38/357 go in cycles and has been scarce lately. I think I'm the only 38 super shooter and never find any except an occasional stray of my own. 45LC is another scarce cartridge. I think in the years I've been shooting there I've only found 2 cartridges.

Once in a while I'll find a few 380's and although I don't load them I'll find som 45-70 brass and 30 blackout. Also I'll find some 50 action express from time to time and a few 10mm.

I wish someone would start shooting 38 super and 45 LC and leave them behind.

 

[Moe Mentum]

So many new gun owners, so little ammo, after the big scare, the things will get back to normal, hopefully

 

[Culina]

Can you pick up 30 lbs of range brass in an hour?

 

[reloader7.62]

It's been years since I've visited the public range that I used to live close to. But I scooped up enough pistol brass in various calibers to last me all the rest of my shooting day as well as some rifle calibers that I shoot as well. I appreciate all those non reloaders that left me all that brass.

 

[ggibson511960]

Scrounging for Oddballs

I nearly always pick up my own stuff if I can ferret it out and if the range allows. I enjoy shuffling around and looking at what people leave, mostly to see the odd balls. I seldom pick any of it up to keep, but once in a while something just has to be scrounged. I once came upon several dozen nickel plated .375 H&H that went home with me to be converted to .300 H&H. What a find! Most everything else is ground clutter.

 

[Dougaz]

I don't re-load nor do I pick up my brass but I'm starting to think I should start, if only to post a "free to good home" ad for those that do.

My club allows everyone to collect there own stuff.

 

[David.Hylton]

Wait until the panic really hits. Before the 2016 elections you couldn't find brass. Maybe it was because ammo was too scarce to shoot. There is plenty on the ground right now.

 

[BC38]

I don't re-load nor do I pick up my brass but I'm starting to think I should start, if only to post a "free to good home" ad for those that do.

My club allows everyone to collect there own stuff.

You might as well. Someone is picking it up, and I look at it like I'm walking around picking up nickels. Even when I pick up calibers I don't shoot, I can always sell them, or better yet, trade them for something I can use.

 

[Turn4811]

I have so much 9mm I have been loading and shooting everything but the WIN headstamp, leaving it behind, and I have another three gallons of brass to blow off. I have two gallons of once shot WIN and a couple thousand rounds of reloaded 9mm WIN on the shelf. I switched over to 45 small primer and I have enough to last many years. I am setting good on 9mm and 45.

If anybody has any excess 10mm, 357MAG, or 44MAG I will be glad to take it off your hands. I could also use some more 6.8SPC in rifle.

 

[sigp220.45]

I'll usually save my revolver calibers, but as far as I'm concerned semi-auto brass leaves the gun and flies into another dimension. I ain't crawling around looking for it.

 

[zeke]

Picked up brass to reload for years. Then picked up brass just so i could find my own brass. Now at our range we would welcome anyone that came out to clean up all the brass while no one was shooting. Would even propose giving them a free membership. Have a lot of 5 gallon bucket fulls. Those wire basket rollers are basically worthless for more than a handful. Squeegee, cut short, can rake up brass pretty good on ground/grass. Then shovel and sift.

 

[hogblue]

Buckets of 9mm and 45 ACP small primer laying on my club's range. Nobody here wants the stuff