Keeping Spent Brass at the Shooting Range

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Any of you guys take your brass home with you after shooting at a range? You think that the range may have a problem taking the brass with you whether you bought it there or not? I may get into reloading in the future and I was thinking about saving my 9mm casings.
Won't take long to save a few hundred or a thousand rounds. Since the price of everything keeps going up I was thinking it may be a good idea.
Your own ammo that you paid for would be ok I think. They may frown on you collecting other brass laying around.
Any thoughts or comments?
 
At Target Sports near Toronto, you can collect your own brass, but not from others or beyond the firing line. I guess another shooter could give you his as well. I wonder if they check the headstamps?
 
Many ranges allow it, a few say that once it hits the ground it is theirs.
I avoid those places.
 
tootall said:
Many ranges allow it, a few say that once it hits the ground it is theirs.
I avoid those places.
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Using that mindset technically the instant you put your gun on THEIR bench it should become theirs too. I would be telling them to get stuffed
 
Yeah, if a range has a problem with me keeping my own brass, than I have a problem with that range.

Alot of them make a little extra on the side by re-selling the brass they pick up, but it is not that much.
Ask before you become a member, just to be sure, but most places are more so glad that you are cleaning up after yourself, :)
 
I always ask other shooters if they want their brass, if not I tell em do not bother touching the broom I got them covered if they give it to me. My range could care less if you take your brass. Enough people leave it.

Regards,

Izzit
 
.223Rem said:
Just don't take someone else's unless you ask or they leave.
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Izzit said:
I always ask other shooters if they want their brass, if not I tell em do not bother touching the broom I got them covered if they give it to me. My range could care less if you take your brass. Enough people leave it.

Regards,

Izzit
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Pretty much standard most places.

There can be an issue with brasshawks swooping in to pick up other folks brass, or crossing the line while it is still active.

Where I shoot, we shoot a lot, and cleanup has to be done. It is a necessary chore. Anyone who wants brass for reloading can get all he needs.
 
almost all my handgun brass is range brass. Probably about 10 gallons of 9mm, 6-7 gallons of 45, and 10 of 38 spl. .....if no one wants it, pick it up, it's free and it lasts a long time.
 
I pick up all my brass,give the pistol cases to those whose guns I have shot and take the rifle brass home for reloading. We want everyone to pick up after themselves and have buckets to dispose of unwanted brass,it gets sorted by a member who sells it to reloaders or scrap and the money goes to the junior program.
 
It's easy to have the "popular" brass taken care of, but raking up the .22 and the steel is an issue at our range. How hard is it to bring a magnet if shooting 7.62x39?

If I'm the only one on the range, I try to clean "everything" my broom or boot can move - .22, bits of wood, anything that doesn't belong. Sort it at home - the mindlessness of the task is relaxing, and more interesting than most TV these evenings. Maybe someday I'll have enough steel or .22 to turn in. Pistol brass I tumble and stock - I'll probably sell some of that someday.

My latest challenge is trying to figure out what to do with shotshells. Some can be reused, but few are reloading these days. The rest can be disassembled, and some parts recycled, some parts I'm still trying to find a way to recycle. (opened a thread on that in the Reloading section today).
 
I pickup my brass after/during shooting.

I've seen folks that walk behind other shooters collecting other folks' spent brass. It's like chasing off the racoons in the backyard. Ask permission.
 
I can't imagine a club which tells people that the brass is theirs once it hits the ground. For starters a club like that would be able to change any such silly rule just by a motion and vote during a meeting. So any such idiocy would not last long at all.

In the case of commercial rental ranges I know it's come up here and there. In the US this is pretty common. Here in Canada? Not as much since we've only got a handful of commercially operated ranges throughout the country. I know that the local rental range, DVC, hasn't got an issue with the shooters collecting their own brass.
 
The policy of "once it hits the ground it's club property", is likely on based on safety. Prevents idiot titewads from straying past the firing line. As always, a few spoil it for us all.
 
Not just at the range do I ask people if they are keeping their brass ( I also clean up for them in exchange for their brass) I also go up and down the forest service roads out here stopping at local shooting pits.

Be amazed how much higher value brass you can come across, whole bunch of .303, 30-30, 300WM, 338 variants you name it.

This weekends weather is going to be amazing so I'll be getting some good treasure in the next few days.
 
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