"Once Fired Brass"

[glenwolde]

Indoor ranges generally disallow the use of reloads, therfore, they can claim the brass they sweep up and sell to resellers is "once fired brass ".

The fly in the ointment is that plenty of rounds of reloads find their way onto those ranges and lots of tired old brass finds its way onto the range floor to be swept up and resold as "once fired brass".

I don't know of any indoor ranges around here that don't allow reloads. Seems counter-productive to exclude the most frequent shooters. Probably why there's not a lot of ranges with such rules.

I know one where you can't pick up your brass. If it hits the floor it's theirs. I don't go there but it would be a revolver-only range for me. There's another that has grating on the floor so the brass all falls through. Guess what? I don't go there either.

 

[STORMINORMAN]

At the GHR&P Club there are...

No "range officers"...
No prohibition of reloads...
No requirement that you buy the ammo, leave your brass, etc.

Only things for $ale are targets (10 for a $) and a can of soda (or a bottle of water) from the fridge: both on the honor system...

Membership dues are $100 per year (until the year of your 62nd BD, then $50)...
Unless you have been awarded the Purple Heart: then it is FREE!

CHEERS!

 

[LostintheOzone]

I'm a brass rat. I picked up enough 9 mm and .223/5.56 to sell thousands of pieces. I also reload it.

My take on it is you won't find 32, 38, 357 or 45 colt (revolver brass) in the range buckets. 9 mm used to be plentiful but not so much these days. Even 45 ACP was hard to find.

So this isn't discarded range brass. It's being sold by people who don't reload and save their brass, knowing that some reloader, somewhere, wants it.

I have some 9mm I need to sell but haven't had the incentive to do it. I don't need the money.

 

[Timothy2700]

Every Indoor Range is different.

One sold reloads to shoot but if you wanted to shoot a "Rental Gun" you have to buy factory ammunition from them to use it.

Same deal for me when I belonged to a CA range (escaped a few years back). If it was my gun they could care less what I fed it. If it was their gun it was their reloads to purchase or they inspected my box to make sure it was factory-fresh.

 

[TXBryan]

I don't think the recess around the primer pocket indicates a true balloon head case. With real balloon head cases the case rim and head is folded thin sheet metal rather than a solid case head. I had some old balloon head cased .45 AR reloads that I bought many years ago and threw them away after firing them.

With all due respect I think the two cases I recently acquired are "bolloonhead" after doing some research. I believe the cartridge case design you refer to is called the "folded head." It was a precursor of what are now commonly known as balloonheads.

Folded head cartridge design is represented by the figure on the top right and balloonhead is represented in the middle of the bottom row.

Bryan