Obsession with range brass..

**Travelingchild** · 06-11-17, 20:20

I ve discovered I've got this obsession about range brass laying around.

I generally leave the range with several pounds after every shooting session, Not that many reload around here.

I general tumble everything together then sort later, Hey if cases get stuck together goes in the scrap bin.

If its a caliber I have such as 223 , 40sw or 45 act i'll keep it.

I just realized a large portion of the brass is something i don't have or care to reload.

I just gave away a lot of clean 300 blk, 7mm mag, 9mm and assorted other calibers.

Is this weird or do most members only pick up what they shoot?

**czgunner** · 06-11-17, 20:50

I often scoop up everything in my area if nobody wants it. I can either sell it or turn in in for scrap if I don't use it for reloading.

**Kain** · 06-11-17, 21:25

I don't know that I would call it an obsession, at least not in what you are doing OP.

Firstly, when I hit the range, any unwanted brass that is lying around I will generally pick up as I police my own brass. I don't generally look to hard at it, just grab it and in my little bag it goes. Pistol, rifle, all the same. Rimfire sometimes too if I am too lazy to try to throw it away. I sort it when I get home, usually after I have a small bin worth of the junk. Sort, label, and store, clean up, reload, ect. Some may get traded or sold off as time goes by, but it isn't high on my list of to do things as it may have once been.

I used to go to the range, any unwanted brass would get picked up, and if there were any bags of brass in the trash bins I'd grab those too. of course this was when I was getting easily 10 cents a piece of .223 and 9mm brass and 15 cents for 45acp, and .40 brass usually got me about 10 cents too. .308, 30-06, 300blk, if I could get enough of that stuff I could get almost 20 cents a piece for the stuff. I used to go shooting, burn a couple hundred rounds, grab lunch, pick up all brass that was left behind, sell it and come out making money, after ammo, gas, lunch, and my time. That said, I still won't call it an obsession since I didn't ever go down to the range like some for the sole reason of picking up brass, nor did do like others who would gobble up any brass that hit the ground even if it were other shooters who were currently shooting. Now if you left and it was still there... well fair game.

I will say that I know some who are possibly obsessed. I mean guys with 55 gallon drums of casings, multiples, who reload, but not that much, but whenever the opportunity presented itself they would grab casings. Some who have 50K or more, and will still dig through the trash bin for a handful of more even while saying, "I don't know why I am collecting these, I have enough to last me a lifetime now?"

**markm** · 06-12-17, 14:55

We grab it all.

**tylerw02** · 06-12-17, 15:41

I grab it if it's brass and cf. I keep a bin for stuff I consider trash that will someday get recycled or sold for scrap.

I keep a bin for common calibers I don't reload, sort it by caliber.

Then I keep bins for stuff I do reload. I don't mix stamps for anything I care about accuracy-wise, so much of it remains unused. Someday I'll sell it all.

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**gaijin** · 06-12-17, 16:31

I'm guilty.
Been through too many "shortages" to not plan for the worst.

I currently do not reload for 5.56/.223, but shoot factory ammo.

I have ample storage space in the shop for the brass I accumulates.

**Tigereye** · 06-12-17, 18:33

I pick it up if it's 9, 45, or 223. It's not an obsession and I can quit whenever I want. Hell, I've still got a couple of 5 gal. buckets of brass picked up a couple of years ago.

**hotrodder636** · 06-12-17, 19:15

If it is brass and boxer primed, I grab it. Sort it when I get home and keep the calibers I reload for.

The extra I will either trade off or give away.