Picking up your own brass

[Rags]

I can't find the post anymore, but I recall reading on one of these forums somewhere that there are ranges that consider all fired brass to be theirs. Kind of like the divine right of kings, or something they discovered in the Constitution that had previously escaped notice, like a penumbra.

Well, screw that. If I bought it, it's mine. It continues to be mine even though my gun just flung it a few feet away (or, in the case of my Luger, just hit me in the forehead with it.) If it's lying a few feet away and it can reasonably be assumed to have come from my gun, and nobody else claims it, I do intend to pick it up.

I'm fairly sure that Oakdale, which I belong to, does not have any such policy. But are there places that actually do have such a rule? And if so, please name them so I can avoid giving them any of my business.

[EAJuggalo]

I can't think of any locally that have that rule. But I was shooting in Indiana a couple years ago and that was their rule.

[hammAR]

Some do, or kind of, just as some have a rule of no clenaing guns, etc.......but in general IF you are a member or a familiar they usually allow some flex.....................it is primarily for the unknown visitors or scavengers that shoot once or twice a year and collect enough empties to reload or to sell......................totally understandable and I agree with them, but I also agree with Rags, that if I pay to shoot and shoot 100 rounds that I should be able to pick-up and leave with 100 empties.......................

[Einthoven's Triangle]

Heck in the old days of Bill's they had a box at the desk to make up for any last brass.......
I can see the point of not taking others brass, but if you ask a fellow shooter if they reload and they do not....well they can give the "rights to their brass to you"......

BVP sometimes has brass so deep you can not help but stand on it! You have to make a safe place to stand!......but I believe in take what you shoot, because you loose stuff forward of the firing line you can not recover......especially at Bill's South with the drop off....

[DeanC]

I like shooting at Bill's when there are guys there renting the 500 or the 460. They usually don't want the brass. I keep the 460 for a friend and have sold the 500 brass for almost $1 each piece.

[BlackEagl]

I like shooting at Bill's when there are guys there renting the 500 or the 460. They usually don't want the brass. I keep the 460 for a friend and have sold the 500 brass for almost $1 each piece.

I keep the 500 brass just in case I wind up getting one some day..

[1911fan]

I have been told at metro to leave anything hits the floor, although I generally refuse to do that

[cobb]

Any .475 Linebaugh brass shows up, please get in touch.

[Seismic Sam]

In your dreams, Cobb....

[frickster]

Metro is a pig stye, you can't shoot rifles and they charge $8.00 per 1/2 hr. Go a couple mile north to Bill's and you can buy 20 range tokens for $250.00 which is 12.50 per token which is good for all day shooting if you wish and they will let you pick up all the brass you wish.

[Aftrshck]

Metro is a pig stye, you can't shoot rifles and they charge $8.00 per 1/2 hr. Go a couple mile north to Bill's and you can buy 20 range tokens for $250.00 which is 12.50 per token which is good for all day shooting if you wish and they will let you pick up all the brass you wish.

uhhh, you can pick up your brass...but not clean up the whole range...


~Aftrshck