.22lr 'range pick-up' for sale at gunshow

[rondog]

Wow, how long would it take to find 100 intact .22 rounds on the ground? I don't think I've found that many in my whole life! And then to try and sell them, gotta be pretty desperate for a $10 bill.

Wonder how much the table cost at the gun show.....I had well over 20,000 pcs of brass to sell, and there's no way I would have rented a table for that!

 

[mag1911]

$10.00 = 1000 pennies.

1000 pennies /100 rnds = 10 pennies / rnd

 

[230RN]

Meh. What's a mere order of magnitude between friends?

 

[kimberkid]

How? $10.00/100 rds = .10/rd.

It's easy ... I'm an idiot!

I don't know what I was thinking, it just didn't look right and I rolled with it, and didn't look back!

 

[theotherwaldo]

I've lost count of all of the dropped rounds that I've picked up along with my brass. All of the funky looking stuff got disposed of properly, including the ,22 misfires.

I never thought of selling it.

Frankly, I don't think that I'd want to know someone that would sell such a thing.

 

[Krogen]

Pickups? As in: off the ground?? Eee-yikes. I drop a round, it gets pitched. Even if I think it can be cleaned of grit, I'm not about to put that slug down the tube of any of my guns. There's bound to be residual crud and grit that could do a number on a good barrel. Nope! Not me!

 

[Davek1977]

Pickups? As in: off the ground?? Eee-yikes. I drop a round, it gets pitched. Even if I think it can be cleaned of grit, I'm not about to put that slug down the tube of any of my guns. There's bound to be residual crud and grit that could do a number on a good barrel. Nope! Not me!

Thats a bit ...um..... extreme! I won't pick up rounds I find mysteriously laying at the range, but have always, and will always, pickup a round I've JUST dropped and use it. I've done it hundreds if not thousands of time, and have nefer damaged a firearm by doing so.

 

[whughett]

Shooting range pickup is like smoking butts off the sidewalk.

Well there was a time................ it was called hopping butts.

 

[230RN]

Kimberkid moaned:

It's easy ... I'm an idiot!

I don't know what I was thinking, it just didn't look right and I rolled with it, and didn't look back!

Meh. Like none of us have ever misplaced a decimal point. Let that be your worst mistake of the month. Just don't do it in your checking account.

Trery, 230RN

 

[horsemen61]

Wow that's a new low

 

[JohnBT]

"22lr 'range pick-up' for sale"

Well I never. => (Said in the voice of one of the Baldwin sisters on the Waltons. My dad's family was from about 3 mountains back of the Hamners. He met Earl once when they were 16.)

 

[Deltaboy1984]

I never thought I would live long enough to see this.

 

[Rob62]

Very weird and yes a new low in ammunition sales. That plus the 9mm FMJ ammo @ $65 per box of 50.

I haven't seen any .22 LR at my local Walmart in a long time. They tell me some comes in once or twice a week and it sold out that night.

Hopefully we will see as rapid of a drop in ammo prices and availability as we saw the past few months in AR15 style rifles.

Rob

 

[Queen_of_Thunder]

No the price of ammo will not mirror the drop in AR prices. Ammo is a consumable whereas your AR is not.

 

[medalguy]

I went out yesterday to BLM land to do a little target shooting. While there just for grins I looked around to see how many .22 rounds were lying on the ground. In about 10 minutes I picked up 23 pieces. That works out to about $13.80 per hour for the time I spent picking up the .22 rounds. Think I'll let someone else pick 'em up. However, at a range where the .22s can be swept up it might be worth the time spent. Now buying them is a different matter entirely.

 

[Queen_of_Thunder]

I went out yesterday to BLM land to do a little target shooting. While there just for grins I looked around to see how many .22 rounds were lying on the ground. In about 10 minutes I picked up 23 pieces. That works out to about $13.80 per hour for the time I spent picking up the .22 rounds. Think I'll let someone else pick 'em up. However, at a range where the .22s can be swept up it might be worth the time spent. Now buying them is a different matter entirely.

getting $13.80 per hour while engaged in an enjoyable hobby is not too bad. After all if we clean up our area after we are done we are getting paid to do what we would do for free.

 

[FROGO207]

I always pick up the.22 ammo on the ground. Take it home and pull the bullets to be melted and recast then the propellant goes on the lawn. Put the brass into an old wire mesh popcorn maker and heat over the smelter to cook off the primers and you have recyclable brass to sell. Why not. Just do it in large enough quantities that are worth while as you are processing other stuff and it is really painless.

Trying to reuse the ammo is not a top priority at present however.