Lots of LC range brass

[gifbohane]

Not to look a gift horse but I picked up a few hundred 223 carts at the range this past Monday and more than 50% were LC (with military crimp.) This seems to me to be case for the last few trips to the range over the last months. I am finding a large percentage of LC which I rate as top notch finds and good brass. I have a GOOD supply as a result. Most of the shooters are just brooming their empties onto the grass in front of the shooting stands rather than sweeping them up and placing them in the barrels.

I am wondering why? Are there just a lot of new shooters? Is it that shooters are shooting better brass because that is all that they can find? Is LC farming out their brass to other houses? Consistent good luck?

Any thoughts?

 

[forty_caliber]

Old green tip M855 bulk ammo is all that they could find?

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[roval]

same at my range there's a lot of 5.56 brass and others. i do think there are a lot of new shooters or people that normally don't shoot but are going to the range at this time. there's a lot of 45 ACP that i have been picking up.

 

[.455_Hunter]

There are MANY shooters who have zero interest in playing the reloading game.

 

[entropy]

New shooters (and maybe some not so new; many who reload other calibers never bothered with 5.56/.223) who don't reload. Their loss, your gain. I too, have been finding more LC M855 brass, but maybe two or three strippers full. And usually I find the strippers in the garbage cans. Yes, I dive the cans.

 

[gifbohane]

Old green tip M855 bulk ammo is all that they could find?

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I gotta ask what does this mean?

 

[Howland937]

That's the only problem I have with where I shoot...don't get much free brass. I have a family member who also has access to the property and doesn't like to spend much time picking up his brass, so I'll occasionally get a couple .357's and 10mm. I've even requested him to dump his empty .357 brass on the table instead of the ground. Didn't help.
I do envy those of you that get access to range brass.

 

[fotheringill]

And who have zero interest in keeping their playpens clean and tidy.

Range rule where I shoot is "pick up your brass during each cease fire and put them into the buckets". I also sweep up my dirty patches after I finish my range day. I like clean.

 

[forty_caliber]

I gotta ask what does this mean?

Widely available military surplus 5.56 with kind of a bad reputation for not being very accurate. It's classified as "light armor piercing" whatever that means.

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[edwardware]

I love it. LC brass, in 5.56 or 7.62, is my favorite. Free, very consistent, tight long-lasting pockets (swaged not over-reamed), and consistent wall thick.ess for forming.

 

[Rod47]

Younger shooters enjoying mag dumps with their new toy. Reloading.... that's too difficult to learn.

 

[lightman]

I'm also finding more LC brass. Thats ok, its my favorite of all of the brass with crimped primers.

 

[2ndtimer]

Local law enforcement uses our club’s range every couple of months. It is over the hill from their usual range, but ours extends out to 200 yards where theirs is much smaller. They occasionally need to practice longer range or run and gun, and they don’t bother policing their brass. A golden opportunity to pick up once fired LC 5.56 and .45 ACP Speer. The downside is that it is scattered all over the range...

 

[mmb617]

I've always been able to come home with more brass than the number of rounds I shoot and that hasn't changed unless it's perhaps even better lately. My club range is outdoors and many shooters just leave their brass on the ground. I often come across a pile of .223/5.56 brass that's real easy to pick up. Just about every trip yields at least some 9mm even now. Somebody must have had a good supply of that caliber because this week I picked up probably 300 cases from one small area. And big bonus I found a pile of .45 acp which is one I don't find very often.

I quit trying to look at the .223/5.56 brass to see if it's crimped primers or not as I think it's faster to just run it all through the swaging die. If there's no resistance I know it wasn't crimped but it doesn't hurt the brass any.

 

[gifbohane]

I think it's faster to just run it all through the swaging die. If there's no resistance I know it wasn't crimped but it doesn't hurt the brass any.

MMB - What type of swaging die do you use? I have had little or no luck with swagers.

 

[OneFreeTexan]

Two questions..What is LC brass, and how do you pick up brass off the ground easier without a lot of bending and kneeling??

 

[gifbohane]

Two questions..What is LC brass, and how do you pick up brass off the ground easier without a lot of bending and kneeling??

OneFree-

Lake City brass. I really like it.

And 2)- I pick it up by bending over. I do it so much that it does not hurt or concern me. Probably good for my health.

My shooting buddies say I look like a homeless person picking up used cigarette butts. I reply by telling him how my ammo costs in relation to theirs.

 

[OneFreeTexan]

Thank you, gifbo

 

[lightman]

"LC" is Mil-Spec ammo loaded at the Lack City plant. I take my Grandkids along to pick up brass!

 

[BigBlue 94]

The one range ive been to doesn't allow brass to be picked up off the floor... Even your own brass.

 

[entropy]

Or you could pick 'em up with this:

https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1016316221?pid=525094

FWIW, I bend over to pick 'em up, too. But sometime soon , I will pop for one of those.

 

[jebova2301]

The one range ive been to doesn't allow brass to be picked up off the floor... Even your own brass.

That would be a range I would politely walk right back out the door on. I honestly have no idea why anyone who reloads would put up with that kind of nonsense unless their prices are beyond dirt cheap.

 

[gifbohane]

Entropy-

I would look for further info on this. Too may folks regret buying them since they do not work well on grass.....unless they redesigned them recently.

 

[entropy]

I read all 44 reviews on Midway. Sounds like it works on grass, but not as well as hard packed gravel. I'm not in a hurry for one, just thinking about it.

 

[Random 8]

I've been finding a lot of older headstamps lately, ammo I haven't seen in a long time. I think some folks are digging into their prepper stashes. Lots of RG, DAG, ADI, as well as Malaysian and South African berdan 5.56 and 7.62 brass. Haven't seen this ammo in the wild since the early 2ks. The berdan showing up is a real pain. Its hard to see inside 5.56 brass to see the snake eyes.

I do have access to brass from a LE range that uses our club on certain weekends, and I may resort to that (will cost me a half day of range service, but the LEOs pick up the brass for me and sometimes let me shoot something with the fun switch). Last time I did it, I got 1.5 5 gallon pails of OF FC 9mm brass, as well as a goodly quantity of Black Hills Match .223. Lately, they must be into a pallet of Govt Surplus WCC, as all the ones they missed picking up in both 9mm and 5.56 bear those headstamps. I really like the late '90s WCC, for the stupid fact the headstamp is really cool looking.