sks mess

[woodchopper]

I try to shoot from the furthest right bench.

 

[5440fight]

I have a large quilted blanket I spread out and crawl underneath, leaving only the muzzle tip showing. All the brass falls in a neat polite pile. I keep a light, cooler and snack bowl underneath with me for convience. When my buddies shoot with me, they have to bring their own quilts, I don't want people getting the wrong idea...

 

[Ganderite]

When I shoot mine off a bench, if it is the one with a scope on it, I drape my small hand towel over the scope. It hangs down the side and absorbs the brass, which just falls into a neat pile.

left to its own, it thros the brass forward to the right, which would eb out of the window of my range bulding, and into the tall grass. A bummer if shooting Lapua reloaded brass.

 

[matty86suk]

i can empty the mag before the first case hits the dirt...i love it

 

[kevin.wall]

My sks flings them a good 20 feet to the right, almost perpendicular with the rifle. Whenever I want to shoot it there is always someone with a bolt gun trying to zero in his scope with fancy laser range finders and what not, then I show up and rain hot brass down their shirt.

 

[Gibbs505]

Something like this could also happen!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZASOrv5hdk8

 

[Tucson]

you must be the popular guy at the range.

Well hell yeah... If you cant eat the brass get out the range...

 

[577/450]

I have a ljungeman in 6.5 x 55 and it throws the brass about 50 ft up and foreward about 25 feet

 

[guess_kto]

i took my sks to the range today
it was full, and there were people on the benches around me

the sks was ejecting the spent cases in all directions and at high speeds
i understand that people were getting annoyed around me so i had to use plywood boards and make kindof a house around me to contain the cases

what do you guys usually do when firing your sks with people around you?

Try shooting semi-auto handgun... brass flies everywhere!!!

SKS is not a big deal

 

[MapleSugar]

It can't be any worse that shooting an AR-15A2 and pelting the people directly to your right with hot brass.

 

[Gibbs505]

Another video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWO-EzoIbSs

 

[spenom]

Just got back from the range with the girlfriend. One of my shells hit her and burned her a bit. Her reaction was to drop her rifle on its scope. Scope hit the carpeting and appears to be fine though.

 

[Gibbs505]

That would be a double ouch!!

 

[greentips]

Complaining about flying brass at a range is like complaining about rain in a rainforest.

 

[Goozyman]

Well hell yeah... If you cant eat the brass get out the range...

its not the flying brass, its the defiant 14 year old attitude.

 

[aspect]

When I was at a range yesterday (that has nice tall screens between the lanes) with the SKS, a guy was shooting his glock next to me for about 30 mins and managed to hit me in the side of the head twice with brass that flew high enough to clear the screen, haha.

*shrug*

I just held up the casings and gave him a thumbs up afterward.

 

[giant yetti]

my sks is polite to those beside me. it throws the brass straight forward, and almost as accurate as the bullets! double threat?

 

[Calum]

One range I used to live near a few years back had some sort of insulating board of some type above the shooting benches.

More often then not I could look up and see my sks cases stuck in the tiles above my head or even in the wooden beams themselves.