Revolver shooters are reloaders?

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If you leave your beloved brass on the ground, new shooters would love you guys more!:D
I bought some 38 SPCL indoor range pickup brass 5 cents a piece after shipping. I am good for now! Just need 38 SPCL reloading dies, anyone selling theirs?:)
 
Before scrounging brass from the floor of your range, ask first if it O.K. to do so. Some ranges don't allow you to pick up brass unless it is your own or you have been given permission from the shooter to collect his brass.

Ammunition sold by the range and other left behind brass is sold by the range for scrap or to re-manufacturers and helps fund the range. Keeps costs down.

Bob Wright
 
Well since I started packing a pecan picker upper I bought at ACE with the shooting supplies you are ALL out of luck!

My biggest single score of revolver brass was buying 1000 rounds of .38 Special "factory reloads" from an outfit called Zero back in the last century. Still not picking much up though the number of split necks has been steadily reducing my horde over the years.

My best score on auto brass? Two things happened to cause it well three if you count me being one of the two range officers opening a range in the morning. The Sheriff's department switched over to .40 S&W.....and every member had to shoot at least a 60 round familurization on a Friday And the county commission voted to stop allowing the Sheriff's department to make and use reloads....almost a five gallon bucket of once fired .40 S&W........and neither of us even shoots one!

Don't ask, my pard has the bucket packed away in his barn aka "Horror Hall of Mathoms".

-kBob
 
BobWright said:
Before scrounging brass from the floor of your range, ask first if it O.K. to do so. Some ranges don't allow you to pick up brass unless it is your own or you have been given permission from the shooter to collect his brass.

Ammunition sold by the range and other left behind brass is sold by the range for scrap or to re-manufacturers and helps fund the range. Keeps costs down.

Bob Wright
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My "range" is a gravel pit in a state forest. The last time I shot I picked up more than 500 centerfire cases. (.380, 9mm, .40, .45). I also picked up more than 100 empty 12 ga hulls. I didn't bother trying to pick up all the 22LR. I expect it will be posted before long with the amount of trash people leave all over.

I went to an indoor range that didn't let people pick up their brass - once.
 
I keep all my brass, revolver or auto. I reload a lot and will re load my brass a number of times. It gets thrown out when it starts to show splits.
 
Most of my automatics are lost in the wild, unless we can get a nice uniform pile and I'll pick up a handful. Most of my range days are in a middle of a Christmas tree field so we're not too worried about a few getting scattered about. I've been keeping 38 and 357 since I owned one. I sold the gun a few years ago but kept my brass, just bought the same gun back off my friend last night. When I bought my 41 magnum, I immediately ordered dies and 100 pieces of Winchester brass. Only ever shot 1 factory load out of it.
 
I shoot revolvers and just got into reloading, but have been saving my brass for years.

Post 4 and 6 summit up for me. Having forethought is a good thing.
 
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I have become a dedicated reloader. Every gun I have has reloading dies in the manroom. I even have dies for stuff I know I will be getting, but don't have yet. As for brass, I am a hoarder. I have finally surpassed the 5 gallon bucket of 38/357 mixed and am willing to share every now and then.

So to get on topic...I prefer to shoot revolvers. I like the guns better for several reasons, primarily power and reliability. When I shoot autos I carry a pvc shower curtain setup and a bucket. When I shoot revolvers I just carry the bucket. I try to make sure I am taking home at least 90% of what I started with.
 
Back in '12, the LG had a bag of 38s in a zip lock back. They said some ol boy had been saving them to reload. After collecting nearly 450 cases, he decided not to. Cashed them in at the store. The LG had only been open for a year. I got the whole bag for $12 + tax. The store wised up later and now they want that much for 100. Timing is everything.

But it makes me think, how many guys with revolvers think one day they might reload. So they keep the cases. Not like they have to bend over to pick them up. Semi-autos are a different story. :)
 
I reload all my revolver caliber brass. I try to pickup as much of my .45 ACP brass as I can but I'm saving it for when I either get a 625 or buy a Super Redhawk in .454 Casull and have it setup to also shoot .45 ACP.
 
I too reload and shoot 357 in a revolver and 45 acp in a 1911. I think reloaders are also into revolvers because we can make a range of loads for it, and it will almost always operate. I have 250 loaded rounds of 45 acp that I loaded on a whim and found it too light to operate my recoil spring. Bought a 15 lb spring and it is still to heavy to operate. With the revolver, I just think "my, that is light and slow."
 
I've saved all the brass I could find since I was 6 yo. It's my 401k account!
I'm confused, no wait, maybe I'm not!
I shoot wheel gun so I don't had to CHASE BRASS!
Hum?????
 
I've said it before...

I find lots of .38SPCL/.357 Mag, .44SPCL/.44 Mag, but in 30+ years of being a brass scrounge, I have found exactly one single .45 Colt case on the ground...

I have no idea what that indicates...
 
Guilty as charged...!

I started saving my 38 special brass long before I started reloading. I have thousands of empties now.

I love my revolvers and once I got into reloading I love revolvers even more. Wish clean up was easier but so be it. No need to chase brass, just dump them on the table and they go right back in my MTM Cases.

Try public ranges. There are many shooters who just discard their brass all the time. At my club no one discards brass unless it is .22.

All the best...
 
I really like the .38 Special cartridge and I get all the empties that I need on my local range.
I don't know why the . 38 Special has tacken a back seat as it is a great cartridge
 
Agree with several that have posted. I always see .38 SPL in the brass bins at my range. I don't know how many 10's of thousands I have in big pretzel tubs. I feel guilty leaving some, not mine, whenever I scrounge my range. I just don't need any more, for me. I like to think I leave some for some sad soul with less than 3 lifetimes supply of .38 brass. I do feel like I won the lottery when I find 50 pcs of .44 mag or .45 Colt, in the tray, sitting in the bin. It's like Christmas morning as a kid!
 
I started reloading for my .455 Webley because it's shaved to accept .45 ACP on moon clips. You can't use factory .45 in a Webley as the pressure is equal to the original proof load for the Webley. So they must be downloaded to Webley pressures.

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That got me into reloading for my .38 Special that is my normal carry gun, and now all of the ammo I have for it are reloads.


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