There was 9mm brass all over the ground

[mtgianni]

When I went to the Knob Creek machine gun shoot a friend told me that as a caster and reloader the hardest part would be getting used to thousands of pieces of brass lying on the ground. He was right.

 

[Green Frog]

Another good source for 9 mm brass at my club range is after a Steel Challenge match… 40+ shooters, many of whom are shooting nines and who don't have time in the heat of competition to pick up anything.

 

[mikld]

When I started reloading 80% of my brass came from a police range. I picked up a lot of 38 Special, plain and nickel plated and 357 nickel plated. Don't know if the previous shooters were too lazy or just not department policy to reload range fodder...

 

[cmj8591]

Empty brass at our police range was one of those things that slipped through the cracks. I would always make the class police the range at the end of the day. We would store the brass in buckets until the storage container started to get crowded. We would then take it to a local scrap yard and sell it. The money was used to buy things like hearing protection and glasses and coffee for range day. The Chief asked me a couple of times where I got the money to buy ear muffs and safety glasses for everyone. I told him we had an anonymous benefactor. I'm sure a couple of rules were bent but it all went back into the range.

 

[9mmPatriot]

Ammo costs must be dropping cuz I came home from my range (members only) with 50-75 9mm cases.


Normally the only thing on the ground is 22 or steel & aluminum cases.

 

[Engine49guy]

Interesting thread,
My local range provides big rubber squeegees to push used brass fwd under the bench for them to collect at the end of the day but they frown on people scooping up others spent brass,
I have been there on several occasions where shooters using 10mm autos and other pricey rounds police up their spent casings after each magazine, this is a big advantage for revolver shooters as we don't have to spend time picking up brass.
I do usually shoot alot of 9mm in my semi autos but it was always cheap enough that didn't seem worth while to take it home.
Calibers starting with the number 4 or ending in Magnum are a different story.

 

[snuffy19608]

At my club, for a long while someone was using the bench at 50yds to shoot an AR and leaving all the brass!

It got so every time I went to set up I was picking up 100-120 Lake City cases, all in good shape with the factory primers. I haven't gotten lucky last few trips but I brought home at least 5-700 pieces.

 

[Marshal Tom]

I am the president of the Rod and Gun Club as well as a former Chief here. I am out there every day to check on things. I shoot with some of the cops and teach pistol classes. We have buckets out there and ask people to police up their brass and throw it in the buckets if they are not going to keep it. It is available or anyone who wants or needs it. Many shoot factory ammo and don't keep the brass. I have so much brass, I could never use it all.

 

[9mmPatriot]

Wish you were closer.....

 

[glenwolde]

One range I used to shoot at was pretty nice. They had a big lounge and TV's. Even a pool table. Kind of swanky for my tastes but there was one big benefit...

If you told the range officer you wanted your brass they'd sweep it all into a pile for you. If you shot 9mm they just swept up a bunch of brass. Yours and about four others. I usually came home with three times what I shot.

Even if I shot .45 they'd sweep up all kinds of stuff with it. Push brooms aren't very discriminating. They didn't care. They just sold it for scrap.

 

[TAROMAN]

Our local PD used to shoot 357 Sig.
A local guy had the contract (?) to police (!) the range.
He collected buckets full of brass.
Through a bud at the LGS, I was gifted 3 lifetimes of 357 Sig brass.
Still keeping me and the next door neighbor in brass. Probably a waste of cops time to pick up brass..

 

[raljr1]

I pick it up wherever i find it....tumble it an toss it in a plastic bag. Someday it'll come in handy. I am not above cleaning out the shop vac at the clun's indoor range or the milk crate at another club's outdoor range.

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[TAROMAN]

Another example:
When I (Army) was an instructor at MCB Quantico. My neighbor was commander of the Weapons Training Battalion.
After touring the amazing facility, He granted me unlimited weekend access to any range that wasn't in use.
Just check in with range control to open the range and pick up the flag.
One Saturday I and a bud went to a pistol range.
Scattered everywhere were nickel .357 Magnum cases. Obviously just fired. As the FBI Academy also used Quantico ranges, they were the likely culprits. We collected enough of it to fill two 5-gallon buckets.
Sad end of the story: I just had go go out and biy a 357 revolver!

 

[Greyman50]

Guess it All Depends on if a shooter was ever on a military team or just shooting on military range. Shooters Always picked up brass, removed shot targets and backing cardboard AND Swept the firing points. When I managed an indoor public range alway swept all brass, put into containers, then swept all 12 firing points and range under target carrier cable.
Range I'm member now I always pick up my brass, sweep firing point bench and floor. IMHO, its the right thing to do.

 

[Miracle Man]

Congratulations!

…the brass hunters here in rural Nevada get bags full after a busy weekend of shooting by city dwellers. It's insane how much brass people don't pickup after a day at the range. I pickup and give my 9mm brass to these brass scavengers when I see them…they need the money they get on brass exchanges. I don't reload 9mm.

I didn't reload 9mm forever either. Just seemed like too much of a bother. I started with it when ammo prices went through the roof though. But yes, I've been to ranges and just buckets of brass lying around.

 

[old tanker]

When I went to the Knob Creek machine gun shoot a friend told me that as a caster and reloader the hardest part would be getting used to thousands of pieces of brass lying on the ground. He was right.

I always let the Berdan primed milsurp brass lay. Sometimes I wonder how many decapping pins I have broken.

 

[ArchAngelCD]

I always let the Berdan primed milsurp brass lay. Sometimes I wonder how many decapping pins I have broken.

Anytime I'm at a large shoot locally where I can collect brass I take it all. I separate the Berdan primed brass and sell it off as scrap and use the funds for buying other components. (when our shooting club hosts a shoot)

 

[crows]

I am quite thankful that it isn't an enforced rule at the range I use to police up after yourself. Between all the brass and targets with maybe a half dozen holes in them, it's like Christmas for me!

 

[ArchAngelCD]

I am quite thankful that it isn't an enforced rule at the range I use to police up after yourself. Between all the brass and targets with maybe a half dozen holes in them, it's like Christmas for me!

Oh yeah! Put a few of those little sticky circles over the few holes and the target is like new... Much of the time I do the same on my fresh targets so as not to measure the groups with holes from another group. That's important when checking accuracy of a new load or gun.

I nave never come across targets like that because like I have said before, the public range I now shoot at requires you remove your targets and take them with you! (hate that, want the garbage barrels back lol)