Range idiots

[Magnum Mikie]

FWIW, a brass catcher might be awkward at first, but you get use to it quickly. This one works on many semi-autos.

http://www.gracomodels.com/catcher.html

Other variations.

http://www.thecountryshed.com/brass_catchers.htm

Brass catchers not only keep "brass hounds" from stealing, they also save you time searching for and picking up casings.

[Bessy]

Here is a good one that works wonders for me.
After you load up your rounds in box... draw a line with a sharpie across the back of all your brass, now it's all marked and easy to identify. You tell the brass hound, yeah I reload, all my brass is marked with a black line, please don't take.
Just a bit of extra deterrence... so there are no "misunderstandings" about who's brass is who's.

[Stradawhovious]

Here is a good one that works wonders for me.
After you load up your rounds in box... draw a line with a sharpie across the back of all your brass, now it's all marked and easy to identify. You tell the brass hound, yeah I reload, all my brass is marked with a black line, please don't take.
Just a bit of extra deterrence... so there are no "misunderstandings" about who's brass is who's.

This is assuming that the offending brass whore hound will ask/look/give a ****.

Most of the ones you will have to rely on these techniques to defend your brass with won't.

One of the many, many, many reasons I don't go to crowded/indoor ranges anymore. It's worth the hour plus drive for a range trip.

[Bessy]

Here is a good one that works wonders for me.
After you load up your rounds in box... draw a line with a sharpie across the back of all your brass, now it's all marked and easy to identify. You tell the brass hound, yeah I reload, all my brass is marked with a black line, please don't take.
Just a bit of extra deterrence... so there are no "misunderstandings" about who's brass is who's.

This is assuming that the offending brass whore hound will ask/look/give a ****.

Most of the ones you will have to rely on these techniques to defend your brass with won't.

One of the many, many, many reasons I don't go to crowded/indoor ranges anymore. It's worth the hour plus drive for a range trip.

jeez Strad... take both my balls why don't you . I didn't say it was fool proof.. but it does make it clear to them they are stealing your ****, and easy for you to identify it, and call them out on it.

There arn't crowded ranges down here like there are in the cities. The only time I loose brass to *whores* is mostly at matches.

[chunkstyle]

On what planet is it a good idea to steal from a man who's in sight, and is holding a loaded gun?

[Stradawhovious]

jeez Strad... take both my balls why don't you

No thanks, I have two of my own, and I have a hard time handling those as it is, big as they are.........

I guess I'm just a little Jaded from my last brass theft encounter....

Me "Hey, I understand the desire to pick up brass for reloading, but please stop sweeping under my feet as I am firing. Besides, I reload as well, and would like to recover the amount of brass that I shot."

Offender "**** you"

Me "Excuse me?"

Offender "**** you. What are you going to do about it?"

Me "Thank God I'm not you." [packs up and leaves]

Me to RO "You have a hostile member on lane 4 bullying customers for brass and shoving a broom under their feet while they shoot"

RO "And?"

Me "Seems to me that this is dangerous behavior around loaded guns."

RO "And?"

Me "Have a nice day." [vows under his breath never to return]

[Belgiboy]

It's not just the newbies and the deer rifle sighter inners. 3 weeks ago, a well known and respected trap shooter shouldered his $8000 Perazzi and promptly shot the traphouse. It was all handled in a joking, "it-can-happen-to-the-best-of-us" kinda way but I'm pretty sure that if it would have been me (newbie trapshooter) I would have been asked to pack my bags. One thing I learned from that: Those Perazzi's really have a nice tight pattern, impressive...

[mmcnx2]

I actually strip all of my reload brass aournd the base with a blue marker, it has never stopped a brass hound. It has made it easier to sort out of their bag but still you have throw a fit to get them to open the bag.

I even had a kid at a USPSA shoot picking up my brass while they scored and when I turned to pick it up it was gone and the little rat ran off to daddy who was not very nice about me asking him to give it back.

[hammAR]

Strad, next time you want to go to an indoor range (B's North) let me know, I will gladly go with you.........

Last February on a cold windy day I was having a bad day and really-really-really needed to shoot, so a buddy and I went to B's North. Fortunately it wasn't too busy, but there was a younger person on a range two over to my left. My buddy was in the lane immediately to my left. This is all important, because both of our 1911's ejects brass to the right.

So here is this dipsh!t vulture picking up my brass which is to my right. I mentioned to him that I wanted my brass and he said something like **** you old man, stuff it up your ass........so I shot another couple of mags, and here swoops in this useless waste of oxygen, picking up my brass again with his shooting hand.........

Three big effen mistakes little jello brained, full of testosterone, dipsh!t ......... apparently my muffs didn't block the crunch as my boot firmly landed on his trigger finger grasping my freshly expended cartridge.......they didn't even block the follow-up screeches and whining.............

So Strad, do you think that I need new muffs?

[Stradawhovious]

So Strad, do you think that I need new muffs?

Nope, I think you need bigger boots.

[jeffo]

Revolvers are the answer

[Vlad]

Now why do you have to go and add common sense to a good conversation... I was just learning how to effectivly deal with the a$$hats.

[DeanC]

The best revenge story I heard was a Bullseye shooter who had two weapons for dealing with brass thieves. If someone was stealing his regular brass he would pull out one of these: a box of reloaded steel-cased ammo (yes it can be done) or a box of Berdan primed brass cased ammo. After breaking several decapping pins they learned pretty quick who he was and stayed away from him at the regular shoots.

[Bessy]

The best revenge story I heard was a Bullseye shooter who had two weapons for dealing with brass thieves. If someone was stealing his regular brass he would pull out one of these: a box of reloaded steel-cased ammo (yes it can be done) or a box of Berdan primed brass cased ammo. After breaking several decapping pins they learned pretty quick who he was and stayed away from him at the regular shoots.

+1 another one is copper washed steel, as it looks brass.

[Seismic Sam]

HammAR. you are my hero!! You actually stomped on the little azzwype's trigger finger?? Just out of curiousity, what happened to his "phucque you, you beat up old man" attitude? Did it just wilt and disappear, or was some of it left, or what??

I'm not quite sure what I would have done under that rather flabbergasting set of circumstances (no one's ever done anything like that to me), but I think I would have gone nose to nose with the punk and invited him to get it on, and maybe used my considerable bulk to back the little phucker into a wall.