Range scrounging !!
 

How much of a scrounge are you on a scale of 1-10 ?

1 I pick up my brass and the junk that last guy left with my targets and dump them on my way out .

3 I keep my brass may be I or a buddy will start to load some day.

5 Brass ain't cheap , if it's my cartrige or a buddies it's going with me

8 I pickup all of it and check the dumpster and I take a mornig off once a month to pick up around the back stopsand Christmas shopping at yhe mall makes you think "wow look at all those wheel weights just for the plucking .

10 The guy at the recycling place expects me with a 5 gal bucket mangled jackets every 6-7 weeks and I'm personally offended by that new ordenance about unathorized removal of wheel weights .

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5 years ago, I would not think of digging thru brass. Today, I spend half my time shooting and the other half going thru the brass buckets.

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When I used to go to the range I would pick up brass but wasn’t for reloading , it was for my brass bucket for the scrap yard...;)

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I save my brass because I do reload andf I am a fanatic about cleaning up after myself.. I don't pick up others brass to keepbut Ihave swept it up after others and tossed it in a trash can.

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everywhere I've been here in IL.....range officials only want you picking up your own brass....nothing else....

A guy was shooting 45-70 and letting it fall to the ground....range official asked for it.....for himself.

I think if a guy next to me had some he didn't want and I did, I'd take his, but not sure about 2yr old brass on the ground....haha.

I collect my own and am currently content with that.

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I leave my worn out brass at the range. I will not buy "once fired" rifle brass or pick up rifle brass at the range.
I have picked up 10mmhandgun brass at the range but that was several years ago as I have not shot at a public range in 12 years or more

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What I take to the range comes home with me too. Reuseable or not. I don't toss my old stuff on the ground, and I don't pick up anyone else's rejects. I'm a little picky about my brass, and past history of used range brass isn't something I know. That's just me, and I do know other shooters who do use discarded brass............

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I see ....... Out here the county recently did a clean up grade fill, new benches, sun shades , hours of operation[:@], and a dumpster 25 feet from the bench . The Blazers and steel cases and rim fire just pile up . Last time I was out I picked up about 20 lbs of bullets and a couple hundred 45acp and 40 S&W . If I'm going to shoot "range brass" I put it in plinckers , minimum loads .I haven't reached a level 9 .........Yet.

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I belong to a privet range, cost 35 a year I think. I pick up all my brass and sometimes look for .223 for a friend. I almost picked up some nice looking 9mm for another friend once, must of been several hundred rounds on the ground, but a guy came in right behind me and did it! I always take care of my trash and try to always pick up a little of someone else's. Amazes me the amount of trash people leave, I think guys that are seen shooting rim-fires should have to pay a extra fee, their is millions of steel and brass rim-fire cases on the ground, some spots it is almost hard to walk on!

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If I find any clean, once-fired brass at the range that obviously has been left by some previous shooter, I will take it home regardless of caliber. 75% of the cost of a loaded round of factory ammo is for the brass!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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

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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........

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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 .

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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

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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.

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I shoot a couple of wildcats so original brass takes on a whole new look by the time its finished anyway. Best time to "range scroung" is the couple of weeks heading up to the opening day of rifle deer/elk season. The 'once a year shooter' buys a brand new box of 30-30 ammo from WMart. Shoots off the whole box and neatly puts them back in the little holder they came in. I lean over and ask if he keeps that stuff...they always say no. They never hit the floor and by the time I have them ready to use they are cleaner, fatter, shorter, necked down, neck turnedand perfect.