I guess I'm about a 5 or a 6 If it's my brass or somebody else's decent brass at the range for my cartridges, I take it...that includes related -06 cartridges that I can convert to 25-06 easily.

Guess I'm an 11. I make a special trip to to the public range on Sunday when it opens at 1300 rather than 1000. I have the kids pick up every peice of brass one the ground, if I shoot it it gets cleaned resized and inspected. If it fails it goes the same place all the 22 rimfire goes, the recycling center for cash. Before you ask it's 12 miles, so one trip yeilds 300 9mm at least, 300 40 S&W, and the most importand 45 ACP more than pays for the gas, not to mention the other 10lbs of brass that I don't reload, whaTEVER A FULL 10 GALLON BUCKET WEIGHS.

7 I watch for specific types and where it comes from. If the guy shooting it just bought the box, bangs off his 20 or 40 and leaves...that stuff is mine. When I get it home I cull it out. I believe I have enough of some cases to last me the rest of my life and well beyond.

Count me in there with crimedog. Waste not want not! 99% of the brass that hits the ground here is once fired and I have loaded up on it over the last 3 years. The 3 or 4 weeknds before rifle season start it isnt a bit hard to pick up a 5 gallon bucket a weekend. I will rummage the cans and pick it up...lol..

I got so many different kinds of brass... I probably have 3 or 4 boxes of 300 Roy that I will never use. I need to sort some of this stuff and either give it away or sell it. Id say its not an exaggeration to say I am up in the thousands on 30/06, 270 and 243 brass. Those are definitely the big 3 around here.

Picking up other folks' trash never did horn me up....

Count me out.............

A few years back while I was on convelescent leave I started picking up brass as a way to get some exercise as well as filling my personal needs for brass . As chance would have it I also found different places where it could be sold to commercial reloaders and people that sold brass at gun shows .This gave mean idea so I started buyingbrass from otherpickers ,after cleaning ,sorting and packaging it in my shop I resold it to clients in three different states . To make a long story short I bought over twenty firearms that summer dealing in others trash . LOL

Good Folks put kids through college slavin' on the back of a Garbage Truck too, but I never felt the urge to follow those pursuits....

Brass is cheap enough to not care what it costs to have new to work with, when after it's tossed upon failure.... and I sleep well at night knowing such things can't/won't worry me.

Four rifles so far this month, thanks to disposable income...

PM me an addy as I've a quite a load of trash brass of my own,to sell to the highest bidder........

The folks I'm working for have a military range scrap contract by the ton trucks APC's little stuff . I was out to a work shop where they are sorting steel from brass cases 223,308,9mm,45acp,50BMG they just crush and cubethe brass 1000s of 50BMG's at a buck a piece in the open market they get like a nickle as scrap .

I guess one point to handloading would be to re-use the re-usable components...it doesn't really matter to me whether they were pieces I bought or not. No pride loss for me in picking up a complete once fired set of
22-250s
.300 Win mags
30-30s
.243/.260/7-08s

I'm fussy about what I run through my chamber and tend not to take a chance with unknowns...but I'm funny about stuff like that.