Picking up brass at the range?

At my range it is only rude if you are picking up another shooter's brass while they are shooting... I have come home with icecream pails or shopping bags of .223, 9mm, .40, 45, .38, etc... Sometimes in the summer you find full 20 boxes of hunting rifle shells put back into the box after firing and left.
 
Depends on the range. We get after people that don’t pick their brass. I pick it up and bring it home , nothing said about me doing it. Some of us have the little wire cages on a handle that you roll across the ground. Brass get grabbed between the wires.
 
Range etiquette...just do it.

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Caldwell Brass Retriever $73 ++
 
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If you shoot a rifle try a brass catcher, which is a small mesh basket attached to the rifle. I use the one which snaps onto picatinny rail and it works great on a few of my semi-auto rifles including tavor.
Just search for Caldwell brass catcher and there will be a few kinds.
 
serg777 said:
If you shoot a rifle try a brass catcher, which is a small mesh basket attached to the rifle. I use the one which snaps onto picatinny rail and it works great on a few of my semi-auto rifles including tavor.
Just search for Caldwell brass catcher and there will be a few kinds.
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I mostly need it for pistol shooting
 
fightinghamster said:
I mostly need it for pistol shooting
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I still use a cheapy fish net, available at the pet shops that sell gold fish. A bit of tape to hold it at the appropriate location on the grip and it catches 95% of the ejected cases.

I believe there are or used to be actual nets made up for specific handguns and rifles.
 
I got a fishing net that I cut the handle off and put in a 1/4" nut coupler, that I attach to a old camera tripod. For bench I just have a piece of plywood with a bolt in it to attach the net.
 
it depends on the surface.
If you are talking about paved surface like an indoor range, I would just get a broom and sweep up the brass.
If you are shooting in like sand, grass, or gravel surface of an out door range, you might consider getting one of those extended reach claw so you don't have to bend over all the time.
The Caldwell nut pick up roller doesn't work good on all outdoor surface. It'll work good on indoor surface but at $80++ price tag, I would just get the $10 broom.
 
Sometimes you just have to screw with the young ones. He was complaining about picking up brass so I mentioned a brass magnet works well. He was going on about getting one then his older brother tells him brass isn’t magnetic. Worth the laugh. Guy was in his mid 20’s.
 
I have brought my own lawnmower to a range before to make a landing spot lol.
I think a nice 10x10 canvas tarp would be nice to use.
Of course if you are moving around then it won’t work.
 
A good magnet on a stick (like the one they sell at HD the roofers use to sweep your lawn) works

there is enough steel in the primer for the magnet to pick it up
 
The cops leave a s**t ton of 9mm and .223 at my range so I have a square bucket that I sit on and clean up an area, then move on. The range is gravel so the brass picker upper things don't work very well.
 
CrazyNut said:
it depends on the surface.
If you are talking about paved surface like an indoor range, I would just get a broom and sweep up the brass.
If you are shooting in like sand, grass, or gravel surface of an out door range, you might consider getting one of those extended reach claw so you don't have to bend over all the time.
The Caldwell nut pick up roller doesn't work good on all outdoor surface. It'll work good on indoor surface but at $80++ price tag, I would just get the $10 broom.
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IIRC, Lee Valley Tools, at one time, had a pick up roller listed in their catalog. I have no idea about their price, however.
 
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