How do you clean up your milsurp brass on public land?

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Anyone got links online to large sweeper magnets or something?
SKS's in particular throw their shells far and wide... my SVTs are consistent direction but long distance.

I have a couple brass catchers on the way, mostly for my SR22 and a picatinny AR one that should work on my SKS with the SKAR rail.

I like to try and get up what i can, but with moving around and different kinds of targets it becomes a real chore, especially when going thru 500 rounds or more.
 
I just pick it up and put it in a bag. All of it.
Then I pick up a lot of all the other stuff that useless pieces of s**t leave all over the place.
I hate people more and more every day. Every time I go out to a local shooting spot I lose a little more faith in humanity in general.
Ugh........
 
shotgun people are the worst, red plastic all over and colourful skeet bits all over creation.

But yeah, you CANT pick it all up. brass vanishes into snow, undergrowth, grasses, bushes, dirt.

Unless youre shooting from one spot I can't really see how I'd find more than a small amount of my brass (or steel in this case). Even going from prone to kneeling to standing changes the trajectory enough that the stuff goes for miles in all directions... Last time I spent almost as much time hunting for shells as I did shooting.


At least the steel will break down quickly, within a couple years in the moist ground itll basically rust to nothing.
 
I applaud your efforts!!! For the most part, cartridges are essentially biodegradable (sans the shotgun crowd), but even so, you're doing your part!! Nothing "P's" me off worse than lazy arses that just discard their garbage wherever they happen to toss it!
 
Make a light weight takedown frame out of pvc pipe, cover it in plastic and use it as a screen.Brass hits it and falls down.
 
mrbeil said:
http://www.princessauto.com/en/detail/30-in-magnetic-floor-sweeper/A-p8482465e
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Beat me to it. I use a somewhat smaller shop magnet - not quite as wide, no wheels. Weirdly, it makes shooting the reds easier for cleanup. Brass doesn't stick to a magnet.

Whether you're on Crown Land, someone's pasture or crop land, if you know anything about Hardware Disease, you do what you can to pick up your brass. It can take a long, long time for brass or steel cases to fully degrade, as in decades, depending on the region.
 
ADHDCanuck said:
holy #### that thing is only $45?!~?!?! sweet ok well that basically solves the problem for steel if the magnet on that thing is as beefy as I think it should be.

Brass at least is shiny. The steel stuff may as well be invisible.
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It's what I use to clean up my steel casings. Pretty beefy and works well for the value. If for whatever reason it breaks, although I'm not entirely sure how one could manage to break it, you can just exchange it for a new one. Princess Auto may have crappy quality tools, but they'll exchange them if they break little to no questions asked
 
Since nobody else has pointed this out, if your svts are throwing brass a long way, your gas setting is way too high. You want the lowest setting that will cycle the action reliably
 
Its great to see people are concerned and there have been threads on here of guys who have cleaned up shooting spots only to give up when the idiots get the area discharged banned. Last crown land spot I was at with some friends, I could not believe the piles of garbage and junk, I spent more time cleaning then shooting and this was my first time there. The real d-bags are the ones that shot up the burn barrels to the point you could not use them, so the garbage was every where, at least at some point some one brought out the barrels to burn garbage. This was winter, I can only guess what it looks like in spring when the snow hiding all the brass and plastic hulls is gone. Its pictures of these spots that turns fence sitters against the gun community.
 
I set out a HUGE tarp to catch brass and take a rake and shovel. If its more of a problem - then set the tarp upright like a curtain and all the brass will hit it and drop to the ground.

EZ peasy. - keeps areas clean.

Leave no trace.

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I use a small shop magnet as well. They're at Home Depot for $15.

If Im feeling really lazy, I unfold and lay out a large tarp on the floor and shoot over it if I cant angle it up beside me to catch the shells. It collects most (sometimes ALL) the brass and I just fold it back up and throw it back in the truck to deal with later.
 
We Put down a old tarp or two in the area of Ejection
And My boy runs around with the Canadian tire magnet Picking up / finding Metal
When we're cleaning up.
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PPCLIGullyPlatoon said:
I applaud your efforts!!! For the most part, cartridges are essentially biodegradable (sans the shotgun crowd), but even so, you're doing your part!! Nothing "P's" me off worse than lazy arses that just discard their garbage wherever they happen to toss it!
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Biodegradable to me means gone within a couple of months. I've picked up 30 or 40 year old brass, still recognizable.

Grizz
 
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