Nice score!

 

I'm about the same always picking up brass every trip pulse guys at work that don't reload bring me their brass.

 

Thank you for doing your part to help keep the shooting areas clean and open. I hate to see the trash others are too lazy to clean up after themselves.

 

What really kills me are all the tree's people shoot down to a 3ft stump. One day at the wild west range was a punk kid bragging to his freinds about how his mosin Nagant could shoot right thru a big tree. I looked at him and asked him if he knew it was illegal to shoot tree's. He scoffed at me, and started making fun of me behind my back to his friends. It took everything I had not to strangle the little jerk.

 

I gotta get into reloadin' soon.

As soon as I have a good 3K to put down.

 

It won't cost you that much to get started. Especially if you go on ebay!

I started off with a new press, scales, dies, powder measure and a trimmer.

Now I have 6 other presses, another trimmer and 2 other powder measures along with a bunch of other goodies......all second hand just from shopping here and there (LGS is always a good source)

I will add though......that's through 30+ years of accumulating.....:


To the OP:

Nice job

The range I go to only lets me pick up my brass but they are good about it!

Occasionally I find something in the trash cans I want, I ask and they let me have it.

 

Very Good!!

 

yeah, I'll echo the comment of thanks for keeping our shooting spots clean and doing more than your part, wish more people would clean up after themselves and others if the opportunity is there.....which there never should be, but that's another matter....

anyways, thanks bud!
:thumb::thumb::thumb:

 

That's awesome...I can't stand to see piles of garbage and junk that people feel the need to leave all over the place when they go out to the "woods" to shoot...It's the few dirtball people who give the rest of us responsible shooters a bad name...

 

The first part of my range visit is policing up the brass and emptying the trash cans into the dumpster. It is amazing to me how people toss cartridge brass away.

 

At my local range the only thing to pick up is .22 and steel cased......all brass disappears quick.........

 

Let me explain.

I have an obsessive personality. (Reference: TV show - Pretender)

I like to immerse myself in a project and learn it inside and out. In order for me to "get into" reloading, I would have to be able to re-load for all of my main calibers. I'd want the best or second best press - multi-stage with all the fixin's...

9mm, .45, .223/5.56

I would have to get all the equipment, support equipment, storage equipment, info/books, and set up a dedicated table/area.

I would want to reload all of my practice ammo, so I would need all the ingredients for a pretty substantial amount of rounds in all three calibers.

If I don't go 100%, it just makes more sense to me to buy factory ammo.


...just me

 

Let me explain.

I have an obsessive personality. (Reference: TV show - Pretender)

I like to immerse myself in a project and learn it inside and out. In order for me to "get into" reloading, I would have to be able to re-load for all of my main calibers. I'd want the best or second best press - multi-stage with all the fixin's...

9mm, .45, .223/5.56

I would have to get all the equipment, support equipment, storage equipment, info/books, and set of a dedicated table/area.

I would want to reload all of my practice ammo, so I would need all the ingredients for a pretty substantial amount of rounds in all three calibers.

If I don't go 100%, it just makes more sense to me to buy factory ammo.


...just me

Entirely understandable. I just hate to see a man wait too long or put too many obstacles in his way. Reloading isn't for everyone but is a nice tool to have in the arsenal.

 

Today's haul of range ammo.
In the winter I shoot at a lawless outdoor ranges in national forest. About a 15 min drive. I could not bare to see all the trash everywhere so I decided to do my part and pick up all the brass

Thank you for cleaning it up a bit. I wish more people would police their own brass or take the time to pick up range litter.

 

I'm a brass whore as well. I live a couple miles from the county range, so if I'm bored at the house, I'll jump on my ATV and ride to the range to look for brass. Even after all of the ammunition shortages that have happened during Obama's reign as King, people STILL leave their brass on the range. Fine, I'll take it...

I have gone out and done clean-ups in the past. I am often thoroughly disgusted in my fellow shooters that trash our shooting spots. Even at our county range I find trash and glass everywhere. It really ****es me off, because this range is un-manned by the county and it's FREE!!! It's big-boy rules out there, and that's the way I like it. It's a privilege to shoot out there, and it's a privilege I'm afraid we're going to lose because of the actions of a few morons. Just a few weeks ago a local Boy Scout made range safety/gun safety signs for the local public range for his Eagle Scout project. They were really nice signs. Well, I was out at the range the other day, and some a-hole has already shot one of the signs. This is the kind of crap that turns people that are "on-the-fence" about guns against our cause, folks...

 

Same with the range around here. The problem is there are few "big-boys" around anymore that realize what a privilege it is to have a range close to home that you don't have to pay for and can use at anytime without an RSO. Personally, if there are people at a range like that, I'm leaving lol. Way too many idiots out there.

 

Nice haul my friend ! You got about $150 worth of brass there. Ditto on the idiots that leave garbage at the range. I also marvel at the people that go to the range and leave dozens of pieces of brass just lying on the concrete pad. My Boy and I have policed up about 250 rounds of 5.56/223 brass in the past few months because lazy folks just let it lie ! Guess they don't realize that each piece of 5.56 brass is worth about .35-40 cents. Sad commentary on the state of affairs in the Republic.

 

I am amazed people leave it. My last trip, I picked up close to 300 9mm and 100 .223.

 

Good score. We use another dept's range three to four times a year and being good tenants, clean up when we are done. I usually haul between two and four 5-gal buckets of brass out every time. Both the dept that owns the range and mine say it's just trash- neither recycles it or anything.

So even though it's a major imposition, I am forced to take it home.

 

I would love to be able to do that but.....

Every range I shoot at has a big sign that says:

"Feel Free to pick up your own brass, but to help keep the cost of the range fees down we keep all other brass that is left here"

Talking to the range officers they sell that to reloaders.

So while I do pick extra trash, I can not pickup extra brass...other than my own.

 

Yup....same here.

 

I'm a brass whore

Everyone,
Bang a gong,
Get it on.

 

Hi....my name is JWB and I'm a Brass Whore

Waiting till it's summer time but even middle of Dec in the fridged winter cold I was able to snag about:

50 - 223
20 - 30-30
20 - 308
10 - 30-06
300 - 12g Remington Gun Clubs (might reload some shotgun in future, mainly self cast slugs)

and about 200 pieces of 9mm/40/45 combined.

I remember back in '12 during the summer time I'd go to save range and come home with 200-300 223's and same amount of 9mm every single time.

If you get into competitive shooting (IDPA/USPSA) help tear down stages afterwards...I can't tell you how much pistol brass I've gotten this way

 

A friend said he needed some 40 S&W to load. Its not a round that I shoot so I gave him a 5 gallon can that was half full. He was overwhelmed. I figure just because I don't load that round, doesn't mean I i shouldn't pick it up while outdoors. A year later he gave me sandwich bag with 45 long colt in it. I can use the 45, fair trade. Always pick up brass and share with friends. You will come out the winner in the long run.

 

I went to a local indoor part of the range that is pistol caliber only for the first time before Christmas. They want people to take their own brass, they had 20 buckets full just taking up room. I am not sure if I would trust what casings were good or how many times they were fired. I would assume people that reload would be picking it clean.

Other than the scrap worth how much could the brass be worth?

 

Here is my latest trip to the wild west shooting area. About 6 ranges all along the same three mile stretch of road.

9mm - 251
380 - 45
40 S&W- 268
45 auto- 102
.223 - 293
30-06 - 30
30-30 - 6
308 - 13
8mm - 19
7.62x54r - 23
Plus misc.
None of this was shot by me.

 

I always take the time to clean up brass before and after I shoot. I take home all of it. I have brass that I do not shoot. Buddies at work do. So I bring them goodie bags and they do the same for me.

 

this is what I do too :thumb:

 

I pick up between 50-80% of my brass; sometimes 100% depending upon my location.

In the areas where I don't pick it all up, is because I think someone is going to make better use of then I am at the current moment.

 

My name is nomad and I'm a brass whore.

Buddy of mine called me Monday at lunch time. He had been awarded some "performance hours" and wanted to use some to skip work and go shooting.

I wasn't really feeling up to it, but went along. We ended up being the only ones there.

Shot 36 rounds of .357, 40 rounds of .308, 20 rounds of .223, and A couple hundred rounds of .22.


I came home with a 5 gal bucket nearly full of brass!!!!:thumb:
(I think thats the first time I MADE MONEY shooting!!!)

 

Good shooting and I'm glad you got something for keeping the range clean...people go out and ( at least around here leave there trash and make messes and we wonder why the government is slowly kicking us out the reserves me used to hunt and camp in... Thank you for your inspiration to be my brothers keeper in all honesty God bless you and good shooting