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by TheCytochromeC
Sat Jul 13, 2013 10:31 am
Forum: Reloading Forum
Topic: Picking up casings at the range
Replies: 8
Views: 3007

Re: Picking up casings at the range

Piney wrote:indoor or outdoor ?
Either one , I shoot at both. I'm referring to an public range with firing lines.
SPDGG wrote: My buddy that shoots at an outdoor range marks his headstamp with a colored sharpie, but that takes forever. Think he pays his little elves with sweets to help him. ;-)
That's what my great-uncle taught me to do, color code head stamps and primers with a legend kept in the box. That way if you have several different loads and you drop the whole box, you still know exactly what composes the round. Winchester primers are red, Remington primers are green and so on and so forth. It is time consuming but I don't usually shoot a high volume.
rotor wrote: The real secret to getting brass in my case is to bring my wife to the range. She likes to shoot and she always gets more brass than what we shoot. Probably gets 10 for each one we shoot. I have to drag her home to stop her. I am always surprised to find as much as we do, I guess some people don't know about the shortage. She was in Dallas today, stopped at Basspro and called to tell me they had some powder and primers. She got me 3 # WIN 296 and 1 k Federal large pistol magnum. She went into the store and asked where the gunpowder was.
That's one fine lady you've got there. I hope my girlfriend will do things like that for me later in life. Hopefully later in life I'll buy some land so I won't have to worry about any of the crazies at public ranges and shoot what I want, how I want.

I've seen and heard things about net-based casing catchers. I was thinking about fabricating a tripod with a telescopic shaft and a big pool net that you can change the angle on at the end. It seems like a lot of trouble but who knows, it may be fun and worth the effort? A tarp does sounds pretty easy though...
by TheCytochromeC
Fri Jul 12, 2013 4:21 pm
Forum: Reloading Forum
Topic: Picking up casings at the range
Replies: 8
Views: 3007

Picking up casings at the range

Before some get the wrong impression, I'd like to clarify that I'm referring to my personal casings that I've purchased and fired. I was wondering, does anyone has advice on the easiest way to leave with as many casings as you entered, particularly with semi-auto handguns? I'd hate to be the guy in the center row of a movie theater that has to use the bathroom...

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