picking up brass

[duckloads]

I have a High Point 9mm carbine. Now, don't laugh, it will feed anything with 100% reliability and is incredibly accurate.

I do not reload for the 9mm, because I don't know how to catch the brass. Do you just pick up what you can and loose the rest. I figured out that with starting with once fired range brass, the cost per 100 loaded rounds is in the $17 range. That's with using lead bullets.

The cost per 100 rnds is less if I can save some of my brass. The last time I bought 9mm ammo (A year ago?) it was $20 per 100 at wally world. Things have certainly changed since then. I havn't had any 9mm ammo for several months.

 

[OKFC05]

because I don't know how to catch the brass. Do you just pick up what you can and loose the rest.

If you shoot from a fixed position on your own range, it is pretty simple to rig a tarp to catch brass. If you move around and shoot in high grass, good luck.

On someone else's range: their range; their rules.

 

[Howard B]

Try a search for brass catcher. The link is to a company that makes them. I have a couple of theirs for a Sten & AR15 and they work well. It may be one they make can be modified for the Highpoint.
http://www.brasscatchers.com/store/brasscatcher.html

 

[240grJHP]

I have found that my reloads throw the brass to the same spot more consistently than factory ammo.
OKFC05 is right about using a tarp. Also, nickel plated brass can catch your eye a little better if they fly off the tarp.

 

[Ignatz]

First thing I do when I get to the range is pick up other peoples brass. Then I go through the trash looking for brass. Its a sickness I have, but it gives me enjoyment. Only then, I can settle in and practice.

 

[walnutred]

Range brass has been getting increasingly scarce around here. Another thought is to take a friend, or one of your kids shooting. Take turns shooting and spotting brass.

 

[duckloads]

Its a sickness I have, but it gives me enjoyment.

Yep, I've got a couple of those.

 

[Skip Sackett]

Have you tried the "hands and knees" technique yet? It always works for me.

Brass is so expensive, there is no way I am going to leave it lay on the ground, no way.

Although, I am not as bad as one guy that was on the range at the same time I was once. He was shooting a revolver and I was shooting my 1911. As soon as the case came out of the firearm, he was there picking up my brass. We had a discussion and he said he didn't know I wanted it. I would have thought it would have had to hit the ground before he knew that!

 

[scattershot]

Another trick is to get the sun behind you when you look for brass.

 

[OU812]

The last couple of times I have shot I will take my wife with me. If I promise to take her out for supper she will pick up all my brass. Not sure about the cost of this thou the meal ran $45 and that even in today's prices is quite a bit of brass.

 

[NFrameFred]

For the small sum of only $20 and two end caps from Prince Albert cans, I will send you a brass magnet on a chain that you can drag through the grass and collect up all the hidden brass.

 

[Gov]

Originally posted by NFrameFred:
For the small sum of only $20 and two end caps from Prince Albert cans, I will send you a brass magnet on a chain that you can drag through the grass and collect up all the hidden brass.

I'm in. check's in the mail!

 

[Gutpile Charlie]

I never really had a problem "picking up" the brass. Now as I get older and fatter, that bending over is not as easy as it used to be, but it works!

Now I do that that most firearms will "tend" to throw the brass at least in the same direction and it tends to all be in one place.

Just bend over and pick it up....you can't beat that.

 

[Rule3]

I made my own brass catcher nut out of a large fishing net frame. I used a laundry mesh bag with smaller mesh size and my wife sewed it around the aluminum frame. It is attached to a adjustable pvc pipe and will catch 90% of my brass from any gun.
If you shoot where there is a hard floor, wood or concrete I used one of those jainitor folding wisk broom things with a small plastic garden rake. The 22's pass through the rake tines. No bending or deep knee bends required.

If I get inspired, I will go take a pic of my contraption.

 

[Frank237]

An "incredibly accurate" Hi-Point!! Wonders never cease.

FN in MT

 

[Win]

The advantage of revolvers and bolt guns !!!!

 

[kennyb]

Originally posted by Ignatz:
First thing I do when I get to the range is pick up other peoples brass. Then I go through the trash looking for brass. Its a sickness I have, but it gives me enjoyment. Only then, I can settle in and practice.

+1

 

[duckloads]

So, OK, I get it. Just pick the little sob's up. You can't swing a dead cat with out hitting a (fill in the blank) around here.

 

[alde]

I had a buddy with a Colt Gold Cup who would put a 5 gallon bucket on the ground in just the right place and catch 90% of his shells in it. I guess it was just a matter of having consistant reloads and hold.

 

[NFrameFred]

Plus a tuned extractor and ejector in a 1911. I had my match gun tuned to drop the brass one step to the right and one back in a 2 foot circle 95% of the time.