Your range - brass pickup rules

[cmhellie]

There's one range in my area that REQUIRES the muzzle to be past a certain point in the firing lane. It is really annoying because they say it's a safety issue. BS, it's a brass issue. I bet maybe 10% of the brass is reclaimed, because obviously if it's past the firing line, you can go there and pick it up. I don't shoot there anymore.

 

[Crashbox]

Since I mainly shoot revolvers I don't think about this very often. But I believe the general rule at Custer Sportsmen's Club (private range) is you police your own brass. If there are multiple shooters and one is sweeping the brass it's usually theirs, and I am unaware of any issues if they happen to sweep other brass as long as they only claim their own. If you happen to leave your brass behind it's fair game for anyone.


For the record, I would never, EVER shoot at ANY range that claims MY brass is theirs at ANY time. That amounts to THEFT.

PERIOD.

 

[Reefinmike]

Frogo- sure it wasnt 170lbs or $55? Last time I went in and traded my junk brass and dead primers, $1.85 was the going rate for cartridge brass.

 

[david bachelder]

Greenwood Gun Club Brazoria Texas:

You are allowed to pick up any and all brass laying on the slab if it is yours, someone gave it to you or it's abandoned. There are also trash cans with brass in them, these cans are off limits. They are painted orange and clearly marked FFA (Future Farmers of America). The cans are usually donated to the FFA at various schools. There are brooms and dust pans available and you are expected to police your own area. You can keep the brass or donate it to the cans. Greenwood is the absolute best shooting range I have ever seen. They run a very nice range there. I don't live in that area any longer but I maintain my membership. Member ship is $75.00 per year and it includes your immediate family (anyone that is related to you and lives under your roof). This is a great value. The range is maintained very well and there is a lengthy waiting list to become a member. I will most likely never give my membership up.


Able Ammo Huntsville Texas:
You are allowed to pick up your brass only. All abandoned brass becomes property of the range. I'm supposing you can give your brass to another shooter if you desire. The range is new and run very responsibly. It is very nice but the fees are high. An individual membership is $350.00 per year .... way out of line in my book and highway robbery. In their defense and individual can also choose to shoot by the day and its $10.00 plus $5.00 per additional gun. The daily rate is quite a bargain in this area.

 

[blarby]

We don't really have "lanes" in any of our pits or bays or on the indoor range. Whatever brass might be on the ground when you arrive would be yours to take if you want it.

Pretty much says it all for me- Just pits. Whatever is left in the 15 mile stretch of shooting pits I haunt on Sunday belongs to me

 

[mahansm]

My club policy is that your brass is yours. Pick up/clean up after you're done shooting. There are brass buckets provided; members are free to leave brass they don't want or scavenge the buckets for stuff they do.

I've noticed that since the ammo shortage began there's been a lot less brass in the buckets, although I did get about 50 rounds of once fired commercial .223 yesterday.

 

[BigN]

Pick up your own brass, keep it or put it in the brass buckets. If there's something in the brass bucket you want, take it before the bucket emptiers get there.

 

[rondog]

FWIW - I carry a Brass Mower with me on range trips, it's awesome for gathering brass! I also bring a round magnet on a collapsible pole that I got at Harbor Freight, it's great for cleaning up the steel cases that people litter the ranges with.

 

[splattergun]

State F&G range... You may pick up your own brass. All else belongs to the range.
Gray area: Another person's brass with permission, depends on the RO. Some will let you pick up another person's brass with their permission, but another RO will say it's against the rule.

 

[FROGO207]

reefinmike
Sorry and good catch. I meant to say gallons not LBS---6 five gallon buckets full from the winter postal competition. Edited my post to correct.

 

[340PD]

I am an RSO at a indoor in MN. If we know you save your brass, we have a home made "brass pusher" and we actually will make sure you go home with more brass than you started with. Most of our customers do not save brass so it just gets pushed off the carpet into the range and is picked up and sorted for resale at the end of the day, so pushing it toward a brass saver is just out good deed for the day.
For our customers with exotic brass, 10mm,40 super etc. we hand them a "nut picker" that really works great without bending over.

 

[HOOfan_1]

The owner of our range has said that if you don't want your brass leave it on the ground for others to pick up. If other people are shooting at the same time I am, I always try to avoid picking up their brass. I usually won't ask them if I can have it either. If I pick up their brass I will usually put it on their table, if they tell me I can have it, I will keep it. I still won't pick it up until after they leave though, so I won't get in their way.

 

[Arkansas Paul]

I would not shoot at a range where my brass becomes theirs once I fire the round.

Me neither. I'm not going to pay you to steal my brass.
I am a member at a private outdoor range. The rules say simply "each member is responsible for policing their brass".
We have concrete slabs where the benches are sitting and the pistol/rimfire range is also on a slab. There are brooms there to sweep your brass up. If you do not save your brass, there are brass buckets every so often down the line. The buckets are there to pillage at will. I was told that at orientation that members could help themselves to the buckets.
That's usually the first thing I do when I get to the range.

When strangers are shooting, if they seem like nice folks, which they nearly always are, I'll ask them if they load or keep their brass. If they don't, I tell them to feel free to leave it and I'll pick it up when they're finished. It usually works out very well with a conversation about shooting/loading, and new acquaintances are made. Most people who don't load are happy to let you have it just to not have to pick it all up.

 

[Hondo 60]

At my club, any brass is for the taking.
So many of us reload that it's rare to find brass.

About 2 weeks ago a coupla noobs fired 9mm, 40 S&W & 45acp.
They just left the brass laying (a no-no at my club - you're expected to clean-up after yourself)

But I didn't mind, I cleaned up for 'em.

 

[NapalmMan67]

I'm a member of a private club, and the rules state you can pick up yours once your done. Anything that was there when you arrived or after you leave is club property. (This rule may not always be followed). They have a company come in and clean up to sell to reloaders.


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[Springfield0612]

I WAS a member of an NRA sponsored range here. A couple things happened there that made me not renew after two years. The first being the fact that every time I would come with my wife the RO's would stand behind her and nit pick every thing that she did, and she is a very good and responsible shooter. The second, was the RO's would ask you what guns your shooting and which range to ensure your not taking a .223 on the pistol range. If it is a caliber that they the RO's reload for they stand behind you and sweep up your brass while you shoot without giving you an opportunity to police it yourself. The rules were posted that if brass made it into the range bucket it was then the property of the range and it's members. If you were a member you could take what ever brass out of the buckets that you wanted. I had RO's 5 times come out of the RO booth yelling at me in front of all the other shooters to stop stealing the brass because I was not a member, when 20 minutes ago I had just showed them my mebership card, and I was just reclaiming my brass that the RO had placed in the bucket. The last issue I had was we had another local range that was about to get shut down due to politics. All the members from that range all ran over to the NRA range and purchased memberships. The current members in good standing were not allowed to reserve a new membership and almost all of us were pushed out due to the fact that our current memberships were not expired and any open membership spots were all ready filled for the upcoming year. So after two years of dealing with that crap I now only shoot on state DNR land and have no issues!

 

[SuedePflow]

My local range lets me collect any brass behind the shooting line. It's a bummer when I shoot a gun that chucks them all forward. I was just there yesterday and collected a couple hundred pieces though. And in all my visits, I've never seen anyone else collect their own. The RO usually sweeps up after everyone and they eventually sell all of the brass that they sweep up.

When I shoot on friend's properties, I lay down a massive tarp to collect everything. And none of them keep brass, so I get to take it all home.

 

[PJSprog]

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

 

[HOOfan_1]

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

No extra brass is a very small price to pay for having a home shooting range...

 

[Nordeste]

Depends. At the IPSC ranges you're not expected to clean up after yourself. Everything on the ground is fair game. At the target shooting/rifle ranges you're expected to clean up after yourself, but you're free to pick up anything from the buckets if you feel like it.

 

[clutch]

When I shot IDPA and PPC we colored our primers uniquely so we all could get our brass back.

Most of the time at my club, I'm the only one there, if I see it and no one else is there, it is mine. It has been a bad year for being a vulture. Mostly rimfire brass and steel case left behind.

Clutch

 

[greyling22]

SHINY!!!........pounce!

 

[788Ham]

I belong to a private shooting club, no one even thinks about picking up the other shooters brass, unless, of course they ask. With times like they are, most times if "brass" is left, its the steel kind, nobody wants that. During sight-in, we help others with targets, we replace them during cease fire, if you are helping someone, we ask if they reload, if they answer "No", we ask if we can have the brass. Last year, I came home with 200 once fired '06 brass, plus others I don't reload for, but they can be exchanged for brass you do use, from other members. Sight-in starts next Sat. !!

 

[horsemen61]

I'm lucky in that I live near my parents place and I can pick up my brass at my leisure .

 

[snapshot762]

Here it's what is lying on the ground can be picked up. If someone else is using the range of course ask if they are saving their brass first.