Brass Catcher

Indoor, outdoor, lanes....?

I have tried several. My catcher has to be easily transported to my outdoor range on my ATV and quick and easy to set up and take down. This is my favorite. The base is filled with #9 lead shot and very solid on my bench rest for rifle. For pistol I mount it on a camera tripod.

frogfurr said:

I have tried several. My catcher has to be easily transported to my outdoor range on my ATV and quick and easy to set up and take down. This is my favorite. The base is filled with #9 lead shot and very solid on my bench rest for rifle. For pistol I mount it on a camera tripod.

Universal Brass Catcher

This Brass Catcher eliminates the need to pick up brass, which means more shooting time!

www.ctkprecision.com

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Sounds like me, I have a catcher that I take to the range and it setup in 30 seconds. Works great.

To consistently throw your brass in the same area, consider tuning the ejector.

I've tried several and didn't like any of them. They're either clumsy and in the way, or they don't do a very good job of catching brass, or both. So I mostly stick with revolvers, and I buy big lots of used brass for my autoloaders, figuring on eventually losing most all of it.

A little on the pricey side, but here is the gold standard for brass catchers in the precision pistol world.

Bend down, turn around, police most of your brass.
Old revolver guys are used to going to the range with 50 rounds, and coming home with 50 rounds.
Autoloaders, not so much.
Our dedicated Bullseye guys, with Walthers, or such, will tolerate a catcher on their pistol, because they want their brass back.
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I get brass in every direction from one gun in particular, but it's never more than 5' away and it's as reliable as anything I own. So I just stand on a tarp.

One of the reasons I avoid indoor ranges these days is the amount of brass on the floor. Even when using nickel plated brass in an unusual chambering, a lot of it will get mixed in with the rest of the mess, and good luck finding more than half of them. Unplated brass in 9 mm or similar would be pretty much impossible - and never mind that more and more ranges are going to a "Once it hits the floor it belongs to us" policy.

Outdoor ranges, at least in my neck of the woods, are a lot easier. I either bring a tarp or groundcloth, or I simply rake up any brass before I start shooting, so that mine is obvious.

On the whole, it's just one more example of the obvious superiority of revolvers.

I use a brass catcher when shooting my CF semi auto pistol because the indoor range where i shoot does not allow you to pick up your brass. If the brass hits the floor, the range owns it. The range reloads ammo to see to shooters, so they get their brass for free. I don't shoot there often, but it is close by.

Grand kids or great grand kids make great brass picker uppers until they reach a certain age. I don't bother with trying to make a catcher work anymore. Instead I carry a folding dust pan/short handled broom combo and sweep my brass up. Done right you get little debris with it and it's easy to clean what you do using a kitchen strainer my wife gave me.

On my home range on my deck, i have a long handle dust pan and brush. i just sweep them up.

My AK and SKS throw it so high and far that I can shoot 20 rnds and then watch them all land. Then I have to walk 10 minutes to pick them up.
So I usually lay a cardboard box on edge with one flap open over the rifle to keep them on the bench. Box is about 1' x 18" x 6" deep.