Good week at the range

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Posted: 7/29/2018 2:48:01 PM EDT

This is my haul during the last week at the range.

38 Special
9mm
308
223

Thanks for leaving your brass, Ill put it to good use

Posted: 7/29/2018 8:51:22 PM EDT

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This is my haul during the last week at the range.

38 Special
9mm
308
223

Thanks for leaving your brass, Ill put it to good use

http://i1359.photobucket.com/albums/q782/Serwin007/IMG_20180729_134626_zps3lo84v6i.jpg

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Good job. I didn't get as many .308 or .223 cases as you did, but I got a bunch more 9mm and .38/.357 cases. Life is good.

Posted: 7/29/2018 9:33:32 PM EDT

[#2]

Very nice haul. I bring ziploc bags in my Range Gear, and often run across shooters who either leave their brass or are happy for someone to sweep it up.

Today I sorted through multiple bags worth of range brass Ive been piling in a corner.

I ended up with approximately

125 .223
250 .45
300 .40
400 9mm
125 .380

I also bagged small quantities of

27 .308
8 7.62x39
5 .44 Magnum

And I found these guys to toss in my “miscellaneous” bin

3 10mm
2 7mm Magnum
1 6.5 Grendel

I only wish shooters at my range ever left behind .38. I had to buy some off the EE so I could keep reloading.

Posted: 7/30/2018 12:17:13 AM EDT

[#3]

Good deal. I usually end up with 90% 9mm which I have buckets full already

Posted: 7/30/2018 10:13:50 AM EDT

[#4]

That's the only thing I miss about going to the range.

I wish brass would magically show up on my land.

Posted: 7/30/2018 10:34:10 AM EDT

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Lucky.

Any revolver brass is almost non-existent at the range I go to. TONS of .223, 9mm and .45 ACP though, so I guess I'm lucky in that aspect.

I did get very lucky and find an old Rem-Peters 20 round box of 30-40 Krag left, one of my nicer finds in a while.

Posted: 7/30/2018 8:32:39 PM EDT

[#6]

I have actually made out pretty well this season so far.. I been putting in 8x8x6 boxes I get from work

(3) full of 9mm
(1/2) full 380
(1/2) full 40 S&W
(2) full of 556/223
(1) overflow 45acp....... spent 2hr sorting large / small prime Saturday night
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44 MAG,, 1 full box 1 visit

38 /357

357 SIG

460 S&W -- full box 20

300 BLK, new and home brews,, pile 1 Fri night

30 Carbine

Been going couple evenings on way home from work, or hit it about 7pm,,, couple visit a day Sat & Sun (Fish & Game 2 mile from house)

Posted: 7/30/2018 9:10:04 PM EDT

[#7]

You should go brass hunting around Fairbanks. Lots of single guys with 100k incomes living in dumps spending all their money on guns. I found 18-19 404 Jeffrey brass, but gave most of it away before deciding I wanted to build one.

A few years I found a tidy pile of LC52 30 carbine brass, then found out it was that Chinese berdan primed stuff.

I had 5 gallon buckets of magnum rifle brass I picked up at the Birchwood Range outside Anchorage over a couple decades.

Posted: 7/31/2018 8:17:05 AM EDT

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Went shooting last night, came home with my 45 ACP and 300 blk brass and 9mm, 380 and 223 from my buddys.

Don't know how much because I folded up the tarp and came home.

Posted: 7/31/2018 12:03:23 PM EDT

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Went shooting last night, came home with my 45 ACP and 300 blk brass and 9mm, 380 and 223 from my buddys.

Don't know how much because I folded up the tarp and came home.

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If you have many 380 and 9mm together I'd be tempted to toss it all. I hate sorting those, and I always seem to have a few 380 loaded in my 9mm pile.

One time I fired one by accident, and so I started to really crack down on them getting through my checks.

Posted: 7/31/2018 12:30:33 PM EDT

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I have no problems sorting brass by eye 380/9mm. i would never reject usable cases in any case.

But I will use my sorter bucket inserts, the only way to fly.

https://www.midwayusa.com/product/847836/shell-sorter-brass-sorter-9mm-luger-40-s-and-w-45-acp-3-bowl-set

In case you don't know about these.

Posted: 7/31/2018 1:12:42 PM EDT

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Very nice haul. I bring ziploc bags in my Range Gear, and often run across shooters who either leave their brass or are happy for someone to sweep it up.

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I do the same thing. Best way to get brass by far.

Posted: 7/31/2018 7:54:35 PM EDT

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If you have many 380 and 9mm together I'd be tempted to toss it all. I hate sorting those, and I always seem to have a few 380 loaded in my 9mm pile.

One time I fired one by accident, and so I started to really crack down on them getting through my checks.

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I take and stand them up on desk top here,, then start picking the short 380 from tall 9x19... also spot berdan and stepped cases.. slide dozen or so to edge, verify all tall 9, and slide off into pan for dump in garage container of 9mm,, 380 go into different container

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Posted: 7/31/2018 8:06:31 PM EDT

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Sunday night -

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Couple previous visit -- more visit than pics taken

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Posted: 7/31/2018 9:06:27 PM EDT

[#14]

I get tons of it - but the only odd caliber I found today was about 20 in 44 Colt - never seen that one before.

Posted: 7/31/2018 9:24:40 PM EDT

[#15]

Send me all your 300 rum Remington brass....

Posted: 7/31/2018 10:07:42 PM EDT

[#16]

I love it when I find piles of brass out in the desert...

Sometimes I spend more time brass ratting than shooting...

Even if it's a caliber I don't shoot, I pick it up for the scrap bucket.

Posted: 7/31/2018 10:16:08 PM EDT

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Hope not to repeat the worst months of The Panic when I'd have to hang this sign on the back of the bench when using public ranges:

link deliberately left cold

https://i.imgur.com/C4qvDQl.png

Posted: 8/1/2018 8:39:10 PM EDT

[#18]

I've gotten some good hauls in the past but nothing compared to you guys. My mom goes shooting and takes great pride in collecting as much brass as possible. One day she gave me a huge bag of brass, she had some how collected a nearly gallon ziplock bag full of 38spl brass.

Posted: 8/2/2018 11:31:14 AM EDT

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Good deal. I usually end up with 90% 9mm which I have buckets full already

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No doubt!

I have so much 9mm and 223 I dont even pick it up anymore. I just sweep up what I shoot, and leave the rest lay. Im primarily on the look out for 45 and uncommon stuff that I can just add to my bins of brass for calibers I dont shoot, but "might" some day, or different cases I can show my kids for different calibers.

Posted: 8/2/2018 12:33:09 PM EDT

[#20]

Now that it is posted when the county sheriff's department visits the range, all the brass scroungers would've been there and gone before I left work :(

Posted: 8/2/2018 1:08:28 PM EDT

[#21]

I picked up a bunch this week too.

Of course it was out of my yard

Posted: 8/5/2018 9:09:24 AM EDT

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That's the only thing I miss about going to the range.

I wish brass would magically show up on my land.

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Yep, same.

I used to shoot on public ranges while active duty and after while in college. Especially when I was in school, the local public range was a brass gold mine. All the students that would go out there to shoot would buy up factory ammo at Wal-Mart or some LGS, and 95% of the time they'd leave it lay or even throw it away. I used to leave with bags of brass almost every trip.

Posted: 8/7/2018 10:36:49 AM EDT

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99% of what I find is 9mm, 40 and 223. I did find a good quantity of 30/06 this past weekend though.

Posted: 8/15/2018 3:05:47 PM EDT

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I had a good day of brass scavenging this past weekend.

In addition to all the empty brass I made, I ended up leaving with a gallon bag of mixed brass, mostly 9, .45 & .223. Someone did leave behind 18 pieces of Starline .44 brass, which I thought was unusual.

At what point do I reach critical mass of brass to justify a .44 firearm to startbreluaging?

Posted: 8/15/2018 3:16:10 PM EDT

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I had a good day of brass scavenging this past weekend.

In addition to all the empty brass I made, I ended up leaving with a gallon bag of mixed brass, mostly 9, .45 & .223. Someone did leave behind 18 pieces of Starline .44 brass, which I thought was unusual.

At what point do I reach critical mass of brass to justify a .44 firearm to startbreluaging?

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I still stand by my story, the one I told the wife, that when my neighbor gave me a few hundred shells and a die set for .41 Magnum - I was forced to buy a gun chambered in .41 Magnum.....I now have two such revolvers.

I sorted brass until 1:30am last nite-if that counts?

Posted: 8/16/2018 11:21:29 AM EDT

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my buddy and I got permission to put a brass barrel at a local LE only outdoor range. We modified a 55 gallon drum and I know a few class's have run through since we put it out there. I am not sure what it has right now but, last time my buddy checked it it was about 1/3 full.

Posted: 8/16/2018 1:29:16 PM EDT

[#27]

Kind of funny. Sometimes I have more fun picking up brass more than shooting. Goal is to get twice as much as I shoot.

The other thing I like to do is get to the sand backstop. I made a screen sifter and a short shovel. I get a 5 gallon bucket of lead in about 30 minutes. Keeps me casting for a long time.

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