Range Brass

[Pipeliner]

If your'e a brass scrounger like me you may have noticed that people are starting to leave brass laying around again. I have been picking up some good stuff lately. I just wish I owned a 40 S&W and a 223. I may have to buy a 40 just because there is so much brass laying around. I guess it's a sign that things are starting to return to normal. I can even find powder and primers for sale when I need them. Life is good when you come home with more brass than you took!

[JohndeFresno]

Yes - I'm reloading some range brass right now for plinking rounds. I ran into this decapper buster - a Berdan primed .45 ACP! Had to change the pin and move on.

[Streetstar]

Yes - I'm reloading some range brass right now for plinking rounds. I ran into this decapper buster - a Berdan primed .45 ACP! Had to change the pin and move on.

Ouch --- i did that with the first batch of .223 i ever reloaded

[Ysabel Kid]

Welcome aboard Pipeliner! I too am a brass scrounger (some here call it a more "amusing" name ), and proud of it. I collected a ton of .40 S&W brass for a number of years before picking up my first gun firing that round. Always good to plan ahead! Beside, it becomes trading fodder for brass you do need - but you already knew that!

[JohndeFresno]

...I can even find powder and primers for sale when I need them. Life is good when you come home with more brass than you took!

Yes - Midway, for instance, now has every type of primer that I would use. That was not the case, just a short time ago. And, forgive me for not saying it - welcome to the fire!

[m.wun]

I pick up brass even if I dont load for it.Many a time I have traded somebody a bag of one
thing for somthing I could use.

[Pipeliner]

Our club gets a lot of pre hunt shooters that leave the good brass laying when they leave. I never do find the really good stuff. Seems nobody ever leaves 444 or 45 Colt stuff.

[AJMD429]

You still have to hunt around a bit to find more than the odd box of .357 Mag factory loads, but MidwayUsa had enough Sellier & Belliot to make buying some worthwhile (I hate to sight in a gun and wind up with only a couple dozen of that factory load that will shoot right on, before I have to re-sight in for a different brand/load.)

Of course reloading opens up the possibility of making & shooting hundreds, or even thousands of rounds of the SAME load over several years, without having to look around at store after store for just that one loading.