Your range - brass pickup rules

[zaphar]

I try to shoot on public land so whatever's left over from other people is mine. There's usually a bunch of trash too so a few bags of that get carried out. Most ranges don't appeal to me since they're simply places to shoot paper targets from a bench which is nice for doing accuracy testing, but not so much for anything else. Reactive steel targets are my favorite. Don't have to deal with range nazis or someone who just bough their first pistol (9x19mm) telling me that I don't know what I'm doing because "reloading isn't worth it" and don't shoot 22LR/9/45.

 

[RustyFN]

I'm a member of a gun club with a 560 acre range waaay out in the country. Has a bunch of separate bermed ranges of many kinds. If you find brass on the ground or in the trash, it's yours. I usually spend more time grubbing for brass than shooting. But now I have about 22,000 extra pistol cases.

This is my experience also. At the club matches the RO's get to keep the brass.

 

[Jcinnb]

Stellar day at the range. Picked up 70+ ww .270 cases that I will adjust to 25-06,. I then purchased 25, 25-06 cases of marginal brass that I hope will clean up nice. The range guys seemed more aggressive today in getting brass off the ground and into their buckets. Noone said anything to me, thankfully.

 

[Black Butte]

The only outdoor range close to me will not even let you pick up your own brass. Even if you drop it right beside you. They said that they use it to keep the place open, but they also won't sell it to me either.

Shoot revolvers.

 

[Dean1818]

I try to pick up at least 25% more than I shot


I dont go to ranges that you cant pick up the brass

I ask before I pick up anything



I wish people would stop shooting that steel case stuff

Havent they heard it will blow their gun up ???

 

[NeuseRvrRat]

we can pick up what's ours, but they sell what's left behind supposedly "to keep membership fees down". each shooter is supposed to police his own brass and put it in the provided buckets if they aren't taking it home. some folks don't do so, so i operate on the principle that if i pick it up off the ground after the shooter has left, it's mine. if i see someone tossing brass i can use or with decent trade value, then i'll ask if i can clean it up for them. often, i'll get to talking with folks and once they find out i'm a reloader, they'll offer their brass to me.

 

[carbine85]

We are expected to clean up after ourselves and keep your brass. Some of the range officers keep what you don't want. Last month there was a family there shooting everything they had and they left the brass. I probably picked up 300 .223, 100 .45, 100 .40 and an assortment of other stuff and it was all new ammo. They even left some unfired stuff on the ground.

 

[brutus51]

Interesting post, we can pick up brass at all local ranges around here but as a side note, yesterday while at the range I was shooting some 9mm's Federal bulk ammo and some reloads. The once fired factory stuff was of special interest to me. Along comes Mr. & Mrs. brass vultures, while one is shooting the other scurry's around picking up everything they can. Started picking up my brass after every magazine and they got the hint I was saving my brass so they steered clear of my lane. Still every time one of my rounds took a bad bounce they were on it.
Eventually gave up and started shooting my revolvers. Finally the range master came over and told them they could only pick up there own stuff.
Some people are all crash and no class.

 

[sota]

I just wish the .22 guys would pick up their brass already. Otherwise my range has no "rules" about brass... just clean up after yourself.

 

[howlnmad]

Took a trip out to NM to visit my daugther and her family. While there my SIL took me over to his range (members and guests only), they bay we got was so littered with brass it almost looked like brass carpeting. I wanted so bad to pick it up but was worried about dealing with TSA on the flight home, all I had was my carry on bag and it was bad enough that they found an old 22 round stuck way down in the corner in a seam. On hindsigth I guess I could've mailed it home. There had to have been 10's of 1000's of empty cases there, all free to whomever wanted to pick them up.

 

[Armymutt]

I had TSA pull me over for a .22LR that worked it's way into the piping on a bag. Made it through 3 major air ports before it was found in a tiny one.

Our range simply requires that you clean up after yourself, except for .22. This is because the mower tend to throw it. We have wooden boxes where people can put their brass. Mostly it's been steel when I've checked them, but I did come across about 20 .36 Spl brass cases once. I had one incident where a guy was scrounging around picking up .22LR brass so "those F****** reloaders can't get it."

 

[Chuck R.]

I only shoot at home now (for many of the above listed reasons). I never seem to end up with extra brass anymore.

Same here, most of my shooting is down on my home range, for matches or a class I use brass that's on it's way out, and/or mixed headstamp.

I do bring folks out from work, most of whom don't reload. One of my range rules is:

"If your brass hit's my ground and it isn't marked, it's mine"

I do have markers for those that want to keep theirs, but most consider it a range fee, along with a can of spray paint for the steel.

Chuck

 

[Match10]

It's my property, I am taking it with me. I'll not shoot at a place that has a no pickup policy.

 

[PhotoBiker]

We have to clean up our stations when done. We have reloading buckets in each each gun house. I always ask the people in the lines beside me if they reload, if they'd don't I tell them to leave their brass, I will clean up. Not bad for a little broom work.

I'd have a real hard time shooting anything other than 22 at a range that told me I couldn't keep my brass I brought in.