I don't always paw through the garbage can at the range...

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But when I do it's for 100 year old boxes of cartridges.

The real head scratcher is that the box was full of the correct R-P brass. Ten had factory primers and ten had been reloaded. That's some weird stuff.

 
Yeah, you sometimes find some good stuff.
One day, alone on the rifle range, I picked up some freshly fired .45-70 brass, forward of the line, then decided to check the garbage pail.
Yep.
Ended up with 28 once fired RP .45-70 hulls.
 
Decades ago at the local fish and game club after rcmp/police rentals there would always be live ammo left lying around, boxes on benches, loose on the ground, in the clubhouse, etc.

Even when they knew there was an Easter egg hunt the next day for the kids it was the same problem. Free ammo is nice, but the expectation that they should not have to clean up after themselves or held to account for where the ammo went was not.
 
Brian46 said:
Decades ago at the local fish and game club after rcmp/police rentals there would always be live ammo left lying around, boxes on benches, loose on the ground, in the clubhouse, etc.

Even when they knew there was an Easter egg hunt the next day for the kids it was the same problem. Free ammo is nice, but the expectation that they should not have to clean up after themselves or held to account for where the ammo went was not.
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Visited my range the day after rcmp training. You couldn’t see the ground for the ivi 5.56 brass. Found a dozen live rounds as well.
 
I find that right around sighting in time for hunting season is good - I was at the range on Saturday and pulled 70 rounds once fired .300 WSM out of the brass bucket, more than half of them in the 5 rd plastic holders that Federal uses. I found 30 +/- 1F Federal and W-W mixed .30-30 and an entire ballcap full of .308.

And 11 .356 Winchester cases... weird...
 
Local club has brass bucket on range for unwanted cases. Makes several hundred $ a year selling to scrap yard.
 
I always check the bucket, usually I'm alone at my reg range. I've found lots of 'large-cal' name brands and recently someone fired a box of CIL Super Clean .22 from the 50's and left the box. Looks good on my workbench shelf ;-)
 
BigRobb said:
Visited my range the day after rcmp training. You couldn’t see the ground for the ivi 5.56 brass. Found a dozen live rounds as well.
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When my range opened up in June after COVID there was tons of police brass. I’ve probably picked up a good 3000 at least of .223 and 15000 9mm. Lots of live rounds too, including frangible 9mm.
 
I was once invited to a shooting range in Germany before a hunt. Hunters were shooting to qualify for the invitation to a Druckjagd, for driven boar and deer. There were a couple hundred new factory brass discarded, all super high quality RWS and Geco and Norma and Lapua. Much was in calibers that I shoot at home. I really wanted to go trashcan diving that time.
 
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