Keeping Spent Brass at the Shooting Range

Ever seen the price of metal now a days ? It's no wonder the club want you to leave it where if falls as I'm sure the pillage the ground after everyone leaves and round it up for themselves for $$. I'd tell them to take a hike.
 
Only the cases from my revolvers and my Lapua and other 308 case shot from BA rifles and the ones that stay on the table, i put in my bag, the rest that hit the ground can be pick up by anyone who want them, 40 S&W is very popular among pickers... JP.
 
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Silverback said:
Our range has brass buckets, anything in there is free for anybody to take, along with anything on the ground.
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Same. Lots of .308. .270, .300Win and .30-06, the last of which I shoot and reload. Had a fellow give me all his once fired .303 RP after we started chatting about LE's. 200 pieces, yoink!
 
My range encourages you to pick up after yourself, I take my brass home with me. I don't reload at the moment but I would like to get into it, I'll be good for 9mm and 303 when the time comes. My surplus goes in the recycling bin and any stray brass lying around goes in the brass bin, no rules about not collecting brass that's left behind as far as I know. I'd always ask before I picked up brass someone was shooting, that's just common courtesy.
 
If somebody's shooting next to you and hot brass hits you in the face and leaves a mark, it's yours!

If you can catch it before it hits the ground, you can keep it. Extra style points for diving catches!

If you catch it in your teeth, the guy's *GUN* belongs to you!

(I don't make the rules.)

But seriously folks, it boggles the mind that any person or entity could lay claim to _your_ brass.
 
the trouble with "range brass" is you have no idea how many times it's been reloaded- and you get HEAD SEPARATION when that happens- most of the time you're all right, but 1ce in a very long time it can be catastrophic- try new slide stop and new mag for starters- or u can use a REVOLVER
 
The range that I frequent the most recently changed its policy, it used to be that any brass from rental groups was free to grab. Now you can only take your own and other members (of course asking their permission first)
 
t-star said:
the trouble with "range brass" is you have no idea how many times it's been reloaded- and you get HEAD SEPARATION when that happens- most of the time you're all right, but 1ce in a very long time it can be catastrophic- try new slide stop and new mag for starters- or u can use a REVOLVER
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head separation in rifle brass yes, pistol and revolver brass no.
I have pistol and revolver brass that I reload since 20 years, once its done the case mouth might split, and that's about it.
 
The only time I heard of the "if it hits the ground..." rule was from a local gun shop owner who was attending an event at a club I was shooting at years ago. There was no such rule, so everyone just ignored him and cleaned up the range at the end of the match.

Really, at the end of the day, most ranges are more concerned with making sure that the brass is picked up. They don't care who does the picking. A range that insists on keeping brass needs to hire someone to pick it up for them.
 
I pick up my own and anything lying around (very little as our members generally are quite tidy), anything in the bucket belongs to the range and is off limits.
 
t-star said:
the trouble with "range brass" is you have no idea how many times it's been reloaded- and you get HEAD SEPARATION when that happens- most of the time you're all right, but 1ce in a very long time it can be catastrophic- try new slide stop and new mag for starters- or u can use a REVOLVER
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IF i pick rifle brass i check it with a paper clip bent to a hook if it looks any more then once fired, or in larger calibers. Pistol brass? ROFL, I have WW1 and 2 vintage 9mm brass in my bucket somewhere......unless your loading max pressures pistol brass is damn near eternal
 
I lose more pistol brass to press malfunctions than I do to wear n tear.

I do notice if a batch of picked 9mm brass has signs of being loaded to ipsc major levels. That stuff I leave.

Last week a guy had a double charge in a sig, though. Never blew up. It did blow the primer and utterly erase the head stamp, though. Sigs are tough buggers.
 
My range supports the Junior Shooter program partially through Brass salvage and selling either as specific brass to reloaders willing to pay for it or as metal to scrap yards. You are welcome to pick your own but it is considered wrong to raid the brass buckets because you are cutting back the $$$ the juniors get.

That doesn't stop some people though.
 
I have brass catchers for every rifle I can put one on, so my brass never hits the floor. My bolt guns don't, but that never hits the floor either. Pistol brass is another story and quite frankly, if anyone tries to grab my 44mag brass when I shoot my DE, there'll be a little conversation.
 
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