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I'm a brass whore.

9.5K views 66 replies 50 participants last post by  yelruh  
#1 ·
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


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223/144
40 s&w/170
45/245
9mm/202
30-30/11
380/9
Misc rifle
 
Discussion starter · #14 ·
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.
 
Discussion starter · #30 ·
Here is my latest trip to the wild west shooting area. About 6 ranges all along the same three mile stretch of road.
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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.
 
Discussion starter · #40 ·
Went up to the hills again to try out some test ammo, and forgot to grab the ammo can with the loads to shoot. Luckily I did grab my ar-15 mag bag so I could at least shoot that. Had a lot of time to kill so brass hunting I went.
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40 S&W - 349
45 auto - 141
9mm. - 232
.380 - 17
38 spl -20
357 - 19
.223 - 263
308 - 22
8mm - 6
Nickel 300 weatherby mag - 9
Plus misc
None of this shot by me
 
Discussion starter · #49 ·
Decided to go to the range the other day to sight in my new AR upper. I shot about a hundred or so rounds out of it. It ran perfectly and was pretty dead on without messing with the front sight at all. Anyway I decided to scrounge brass at a couple of ranges like I always do. In less than a couple hours I found all this

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.223/348 mostly military crimped stuff-- no big
.40s&w/177
.45auto/338
9mm/468


One of these days I will get around to buying a .45 and 9mm
 
Discussion starter · #51 ·
Have not continued this thread since mt Herman ranges were all closed. Decided to go for a ride last week to check out an old stretch of road that just reopened, about a 15 min or so drive. Jack pot
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.223/420
9mm/404 plus 5 live rounds
40S&W/163
45auto/121
30-06/20
357/14
.308/11
30-30/8
Plus a little of this and that. Spent a couple hours picking it up between three ranges in three miles.
 
Discussion starter · #55 ·
Wow! Nice score...especially on the .45! That's the toughest for me to find since a lot of others here reload it. I'm glad there are people who don't pick up after themselves. It allows people like me (and you) to save a lot of money. I am happy to pick up after them. ;)

Grev, don't let these guys fool you. Once you have committed, the endless number of tools and gadgets add up like crazy!!!! I haven't hit 3k yet, though. Maybe 1k.
You ever need .45 brass let me know, even if I did own a .45(someday), I have thousands upon thousands of it. Plus 9mm, .40. 38 spl.