Brass on sale?

[Rodentman]

i saw this flyer and didn't see a gold ribbon bow, but a nicely shaped pile of pistol brass, probably .45 acp. I was dismayed to find out I was wrong and couldn't get it at 20% off:

[DeanC]

LOL - reloader's disease. Everything looks like spent brass. And you spend more time watching where your brass lands than whether you hit the target.

[Rodentman]

LOL - reloader's disease. Everything looks like spent brass. And you spend more time watching where your brass lands than whether you hit the target.

Aint that the truth! A successful range trip Friday was retrieving all of my .50 AE brass. Almost more fun than firing it was watching the blast when I let another shooter fire it. Of course as soon as he fired I was watching the brass...........

[wrench]

And every time I drive past 'Cartridge World', my heart goes pitter pat, for just a second.

[FJ540]

I have an idea on how to solve this problem...

Cotton drop cloth on a moveable frame. Stick it where it'll catch the cases and have it funnel into a bucket. I'll be fielding the prototype next summer.

[mccandmatt]

I saw some brass catchers online that seem promising, they attach to the pictinny rail on handguns. Might work but would distract me I think when shooting

[Snakeman721]

OGC has some on the short range....nylon mesh strung in a large PVC tubing frame. You just move the whole contraption to where your gun throws the empties and voila...there's all your brass sitting in the bottom fold of the mesh.

[FJ540]

Anyone have pics of those?

[wrench]

Anyone have pics of those?

The PVC ones are gone. Now they have some made out of rebar with mesh, that attach to the tables. Very stable, but it takes up most of the table...

[DeanC]

Using a brass catcher is admitting you have a problem.

[FJ540]

No Dean, it's coping with laziness.

[Stradawhovious]

Using a brass catcher is admitting you have a problem.

The only problem I have in regards to this is the absence of a brass magnet.

[mccandmatt]

Here is a brass catcher for the handgun that hooks onto the rail
http://www.amazon.com/Brass-Catcher-Mounts-Handgun-Picatinny/dp/B004NLU340/ref=pd_sim_sg_3

Here is one that straps to your hand
http://www.amazon.com/Graco-Models-Pistol-Brass-Catcher/dp/B002SBBCJC/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1322509633&sr=8-9

[Snakeman721]

Anyone have pics of those?

The PVC ones are gone. Now they have some made out of rebar with mesh, that attach to the tables. Very stable, but it takes up most of the table...

Darn! I liked the PVC ones because they stood on the ground and could be moved to the exact spot your gun ejects the empties. Oh well.

[FJ540]

I was thinking it would come in handy in the absence of a shoot-house. Pete and I had been tossing ideas around for a way to devise the building's floor to have a trough around it you could just sweep everything into and then push it all into a bucket from there. Possibly have sheets draped from the walls so you don't have ricocheting ammo coming at you from behind.

Shooting house is the end goal, but since my timber sale has to wait till next spring, it's going to be a couple more years yet.

The catcher isn't even entirely just to re-use the brass. I don't want my range to look like a garbage dump of brass/steel after a year or two, and I don't want to have to crawl around policing up brass either.