Range brass?

I pick up mine and i'm sure others get mixed in. I shoot at a private club. We have bins you can toss it in for others to look through. Or if it's in good shape but on the ground I'll just grab it with mine. Some indoor ranges frown on picking up others brass. They usually try to sell it.
 
i pick mine up but usually someone shooting 9mm,45,223 around you so i ask if they want theres and if not i take it. if so try to divy it up.

alwasy ask before hand
 
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I pick mine up; but never touch what is in the bucket.... that is the range's.

Also why I prefer to shoot a revolver. I quit reloading 9mm and 40.
 
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I pick it up IF it's not been out in the weather and I usually check headstamps to see if it's a kind I use or if it's a difficult type
 
11B CIB said:
I pick it up IF it's not been out in the weather and I usually check headstamps to see if it's a kind I use or if it's a difficult type
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I got a lot thats been outside for 3-4 years!!!! Mixed stuff, 223, 5.7, 30-06, 762x39.. all kinds of crap.. it was mixed in with steel cased stuff too.. so corroded, rusty, dirty.. been in a bucket in the weather for a while. It has taken me all day to get it clean, literally... all day. Ill never do it again.
 
My view has always been that I can take mine, and if someone else wants to give me theirs that's good too, but if it's just there and especially if it's already in the bucket, then it has been "given" to the range so I won't take it.

Firepower in Matthews apparently caught someone not just going through their buckets, but just dumping them into their range bag. No more buckets.
 
I collect mine, and usually whatever is laying around.

If someone else is shooting I ask before just going after it. We're supposed to police our brass at my club, and a lot of guys don't reload, they're stoked to have someone else grab it. Not uncommon to be handed a bag or box by someone that knows I reload.

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I'll pick up my brass and whatever is laying around. Brass with obvious issues goes directly into the scrap bucket. Good looking brass usually goes into the "plinking" ammo rotation.

Brass pickup at matches usually go into the scrap bucket too, but there are exception. At a highpower match today a young shooter left all his factory-ammo .223 brass today and gave it to me since he didn't reload. Scored about 80 pieces of once-fired LC!
 
JimB said:
Firepower in Matthews apparently caught someone not just going through their buckets, but just dumping them into their range bag. No more buckets.
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I dumped a range bucket into my bag from PSA once. I had spent the hour + I was there shooting with my FIL (it was raining, and he was from out of town and had been begging to shoot so I had no other alternative). We'd been shooting ARs (with my carefully rotated lake city brass), .45 (small pistol primer brass), and fiocchi 158gr 9mm I wanted the brass from. I'd been piling all my brass right by my range bag on the floor in the shooting lane and when I got up to throw a target away, an employee came up and swept it all down range. Hundreds of pieces that had only been shot in my guns....I was pissed. So, I dumped probably 3 gallons worth of a 5 gallon bucket into my range bag.
 
11B CIB said:
I dumped a range bucket into my bag from PSA once. I had spent the hour + I was there shooting with my FIL (it was raining, and he was from out of town and had been begging to shoot so I had no other alternative). We'd been shooting ARs (with my carefully rotated lake city brass), .45 (small pistol primer brass), and fiocchi 158gr 9mm I wanted the brass from. I'd been piling all my brass right by my range bag on the floor in the shooting lane and when I got up to throw a target away, an employee came up and swept it all down range. Hundreds of pieces that had only been shot in my guns....I was pissed. So, I dumped probably 3 gallons worth of a 5 gallon bucket into my range bag.
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Won't judge you harshly for that, they took from you, you recovered from them, and they'd prefer that to asking to close the range so you could collect yours anyway. I haven't had problems with employees, I get frustrated by the folks that seem to enjoy sweeping more than shooting, had a lady move my range bag once so she could get to all the brass that I'd been piling up. I try not to let it bother me, I guess they think they are helping.
 
A lot depends on the policy of the range and the situation. My range asks people to police their brass and provides some buckets at several of the bays for unwanted brass. Quite a bit, unfortunately, winds up in the trash barrels. The club does not collect and sell brass, so picking up abandoned cases and emptying buckets is fine.

Your brass is returned to you by brass pickers at our Cowboy and Wild Bunch matches.

You can pick up your brass at our Action Pistol matches or leave it for someone who wants it.

Lots of cases are left on the ground during our IDPA matches, and most people wait until the match is over to pick up the brass they want. That is not the policy at some other ranges.
 
I pick up all of mine. I try to use a brass catcher, but some of it invariably ends up on the ground. I sometimes strike up a conversation with shooters next to me, if they don't want their brass I offer to sweep it up for them. I reload most of the common stuff you find at the range.

The outdoor range where I shoot, I will sometimes pick up brass that is on the ground, but can't touch the stuff in the buckets. At the indoor range, I let them know that I save all my brass, and they are pretty good about sweeping brass in my direction, and I usually end up with a little more brass than I shot.
 
I pick up what is around and at matches a bit extra, but I don't hog the range's brass (certainly never anything in the bucket).
 
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