Don't sweep my brass!!!

Silverado

Silverado

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To the group at the range yesterday afternoon:

Thanks for cleaning up after yourselves when you were done shooting.

However, next time, ASK the guy shooting next to you before you sweep up 60 or so pieces of his brass and dump them in the garbage bin (the GARBAGE BIN! Not even the brass bucket.)

Some of us do re-use that stuff you know...:slap:
 
Man thats brutal I use to work at a range there is just an un written rule that you stay away from the people that are still shooting so not to distarct them. Not even considering taking there brass and throwing it away??? Thats just plain lack of common sense what kind of brass was it??? Hopfully not somthing hard to find....
 
No, it was just 223, and I've picked more than my share out of the brass bucket from time to time.

It's just the courtesy and understanding that many shooters reload.
 
762x39 and 22LR I just toss out but I keep everything else. I was able to get some Brass 762X39 cases... I pick up as much brass as I can, including my steel case 762X39, I hate going to ranges and just seeing them lying around...
 
If you saw him sweeping and your AR was flinging it all over the place, what did you think would happen?

It would solve the problem if all the guys who blaze away with AR's and SKS's to shoot in the handgun area, that way the brass wouldn't be bouncing all over the place distracting the hell out of anyone else trying to shoot to your left. We might even be able to keep plywwod on the targets.
 
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or put a brass catcher on - i cut the bottom out of mine so i dumps in a neat pile on the floor
 
martinbns said:
If you saw him sweeping and your AR was flinging it all over the place, what did you think would happen?

It would solve the problem if all the guys who blaze away with AR's and SKS's to shoot in the handgun area, that way the brass wouldn't be bouncing all over the place distracting the hell out of anyone else trying to shoot to your left. We might even be able to keep plywwod on the targets.
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Martin,

I didn't see him sweeping; I was busy shooting, and the next time I got up, their group had left, and so had my brass.

An AR ejects to the right.

I was shooting gongs out to 500 and back, and FWIW my AR makes smaller holes in the plywood than your Sako.

I don't believe the pistol range is templated for rifle rounds; if it were, would it not be posted so? I'm not a shooter who bangs away with my AR. It's no different from the line than an individual shooting a Remington semi or a BAR.
 
Silverado said:
Martin,

I didn't see him sweeping; I was busy shooting, and the next time I got up, their group had left, and so had my brass.

An AR ejects to the right.

I was shooting gongs out to 500 and back, and FWIW my AR makes smaller holes in the plywood than your Sako.

I don't believe the pistol range is templated for rifle rounds; if it were, would it not be posted so? I'm not a shooter who bangs away with my AR. It's no different from the line than an individual shooting a Remington semi or a BAR.
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You fired 60 rounds without getting up to look around? Those guns and the guys that shoot them there (you accepted if you were firing one at a time at the 500 metre gong) make the biggest mess's, they generally destroy the 25 yard target board. Half those guys want to walk aroudn with a 911 on each hip and the AR on their backs. Swat wannabe's who don't know the first thing about or safe handling at a range. I've kicked two guys off the range for holding loaded AR's over the back in the funky black slings that were walking around with rounds in the chamber. I made them go over to the pistol range.

FWIW, it would take me three hours to shoot 60 rounds from my Sako and if I manage to eject a case that I don't grab, I stop and pick it up.
 
I always get the cases from my bolts one at a time, and back into the box they go as well.

With the AR, I usually pick 'em up every ceasefire.

60 rounds on the gongs takes me 3-5 minutes. Bang... whack. Bang... whack.

I usually shoot a couple of 10 shot groups at 100 too.

In a number of discussions with Dave and others, I think when the club meetings start this month we need to seriously look at a RSO program, and we should at least have the safety rules posted large and up front.

Dave swears it's always been bad at certain times; I assume he's right, but we could work to make it better. I'm usually there 3 or 4 times a week, and I know of several other shooters who are there that often too.

But I digress.

EDIT: Oh, just one other thing, IMO it's guys with shotguns firing at the 25y backer chewing up the wood for the most part.
 
martinbns said:
You fired 60 rounds without getting up to look around? Those guns and the guys that shoot them there (you accepted if you were firing one at a time at the 500 metre gong) make the biggest mess's, they generally destroy the 25 yard target board. Half those guys want to walk aroudn with a 911 on each hip and the AR on their backs. Swat wannabe's who don't know the first thing about or safe handling at a range. I've kicked two guys off the range for holding loaded AR's over the back in the funky black slings that were walking around with rounds in the chamber. I made them go over to the pistol range.

FWIW, it would take me three hours to shoot 60 rounds from my Sako and if I manage to eject a case that I don't grab, I stop and pick it up.
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Wow, you are sounding like quite the FUDD there... making such BS statements.

I guess you are just that far superior to those shooting AR's. You probably have more of a right to use up the plywood too... obvious superiority and all. How dare someone want to shoot off 60 rounds without having tea and scones between mags.

Silverado is likely correct in saying it is shotguns making the biggest mess of your precious plywood.
 
martinbns said:
You fired 60 rounds without getting up to look around? Those guns and the guys that shoot them there (you accepted if you were firing one at a time at the 500 metre gong) make the biggest mess's, they generally destroy the 25 yard target board. Half those guys want to walk aroudn with a 911 on each hip and the AR on their backs. Swat wannabe's who don't know the first thing about or safe handling at a range. I've kicked two guys off the range for holding loaded AR's over the back in the funky black slings that were walking around with rounds in the chamber. I made them go over to the pistol range.

FWIW, it would take me three hours to shoot 60 rounds from my Sako and if I manage to eject a case that I don't grab, I stop and pick it up.
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:bsFlag: Holy Fack!:puke: You're kidding right?:eek::runaway:
 
someone needs to remove their head from their ass, and I don't think it's Silverado
 
Besides, everyone knows it's the rimfire guys that leave a mess and ruin the target boards.

I'm only half kidding.

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My guess is that those guys were just trying to be helpful.

Them sweeping up your brass doens't seem malicious, just ignorant. Probably better to let them know at the source, rather than #####ing about it here.

I'm completely fine with people "banging away" with semis, and shooting form the bench and everything in between. I don't care if they walk aound wit pistols on thier hip, as long as it isn't pointed at me.

But it is true that the "bangers" do tend to chop up the target stands a bit more. I just wish they would show up for a work party more often.
 
Silverado said:
I always get the cases from my bolts one at a time, and back into the box they go as well.

With the AR, I usually pick 'em up every ceasefire.

60 rounds on the gongs takes me 3-5 minutes. Bang... whack. Bang... whack.

I usually shoot a couple of 10 shot groups at 100 too.

In a number of discussions with Dave and others, I think when the club meetings start this month we need to seriously look at a RSO program, and we should at least have the safety rules posted large and up front.

Dave swears it's always been bad at certain times; I assume he's right, but we could work to make it better. I'm usually there 3 or 4 times a week, and I know of several other shooters who are there that often too.

But I digress.

EDIT: Oh, just one other thing, IMO it's guys with shotguns firing at the 25y backer chewing up the wood for the most part.
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I agree with you , we need an RSO program, I almost got shot last year at the 300 metre berm by one of those idiots last fall. We closed the range, several of us walked down to 100 yards and I kept going to the 300 metre targets, while checking them I heard a quad behind me. We had a guy traping the beavers he drove up behind the range and saw two of the SKS marksmen getting ready, guns loaded on their benches while I was down range wearing a BLAZE orange vest.

KDX, Beltfed, SLavex, and pottsy, none of you guys have ever been to our range and seen the damage those iodiots have done to it when they are unsupervised. We installed lights that I worked countless bingo's to help pay for over the last 6 years, all teh fixtures shot out with 45 ammo, the metal poles holding our range closed sign is full of 45 calibre holes. Ten yards in front of the 100 yard target we find 200 rounds of 45 acp brass, because they already blew the 25 yard target all to hell. The "tactical" boys in fact do walk around with loaded ar's etc pointed at ther people when they are using those silly slings. So when you guys live here, support the range for 6 years, raise money to help pay for the stuff they wreck, you can tell me to take my head out of my ass, in the mean time f##k yourself.


Silverado, I'm sorry, I'm teeing off on the wrong guy here, we've met, I know you support the range doing work out there and use it for all types of rifle.
 
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Let's not paint "tactical" gun users with one brush here. Sounds like you have a membership issue. Yes, if you are going to get some retard in your range blowing out hard earned lights, then, yes it will most likely be some wanna be "tactical boys."

Just because people are murdered in Canada each year with firearms doesn't mean that ALL firearms owners are murders. As we all know. So ease up a little. Your coming accross like the old man with a bone to pick, that everyone tends to roll there eyes at when he comes to the range. Shooting can be fun too.

And Silverado, sounds like people sweeping up your brass is only going to be the tip of the iceberg.
 
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