Brass on the ground

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On my drive home from work I drive by an old sand pit where people and some slobs shoot. I stop every day and look to see what kind of brass people have left me. Today I picked up 40-Fed 3006s, 160- LC 5.56mm, and 40-Fed 308s. A pretty good day for a reloader. I was curious about whether other people get as excited as I do when they find clean shiney once fired brass as I do.
 
nice score, I'd be stoked :D
I had a pile of Fed(Amer eagle) .308 win. free range brass and after culling out 40% of it I ended up with some good reloading stock.
 
For some, Better than Christmas

I used to shoot with a guy once a week. He spent more time brass picking than shooting. Like a kid in a candy store...........
 
I'm the same way, it's an obsession. Except I don't just pick up the shiny stuff, I'll pick up the nasties too. IOSSO brass case cleaner will get off most of the tarnish, then I tumble them in dry walnut media, then polish with corncob treated with NuFinish car polish.

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Or what about mysteriously reappearing brass? Where I shoot I can thoroughly comb the ground for brass, I've even used a metal detector, and yet the next time I go there I find old brass here and there. Not brass from my last trip either, but brass from several trips before, and it's always in a spot I know I searched. I think heavy rains must uncover some of it, or something. Either way, no complaints!
 
I wish I could find a place like that to stop and look for brass on the way home from work. Course I only live 7 city blocks from where I work. But on the other hand I do have my , across the street neighbor, that brings me a 1/2 to 3/4 plastic 5 gallon bucket of mixed brass from the police range every 5 months. Sorry I just can't refuse free brass, ever, really. (please don't be mad at me)
 
It has happened, on rare occasions, that I use the entire shooting-time I've allotted myself in picking up brass instead. After all, I can shoot most any day but that brass needs to be picked up right now.
 
Now, if someone were to pick up the russian steel case stuff, then I'd think they were a little wierd. But picking up brass isn't so strange.
 
This thread reminds me of watching the brass-monkeys picking through the spent casings after matches when I used to shoot .357SIG for USPSA and IDPA. They'd be happily picking along, claiming useful 9mil or 40 (the 38 super guys grab theirs as it exits the gun)....then they come along to my brass and say "*** is this? Who the hell shoots Speer .357SIG at a match?"
 
At our range brass is everywhere if you want it.I pick up the best stuff.I guess you pickup brass forever if you wanted to.
roc1
 
I especially like picking up brass that is in an uncommon caliber. One time I was able to pick up nearly 500 rounds of 44 special brass. Yeah, I could hardly believe it too.. I traded it for something I could use.. 308 Win I think..
 
roc1, wheres the range at.... i don't mind a good drive.... just another brass whore here.....
 
I've accumulated about eight hundred .40S&W cases (lately there is more of that on the ground than 9mm and .45ACP combined). I'm gonna have to buy a .40 pretty soon. Maybe a 10mm that's convertible to .40, because I've picked up three or four 10mm cases too. ;)

I don't always pick up brass, but I do always pick up the lead off the ground under the steel plates during the summer. It just takes a couple of minutes to pick up 15 to 20 pounds of lead.
 
My wife gets so excited about scrounging brass that she act like a little kid in a Chucky Cheese Restraunt. Pretty comical. We save it all. What I don't reload goes into our scrap brass bucket to fund my reloading. As of last weekend we have 66 pounds of scrap brass to sell. :D

Tony
 
I was curious about whether other people get as excited as I do when they find clean shiney once fired brass as I do.
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I do not reload, but I have often wondered: How do you know for sure that the brass you have found is once fired?
 
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