I Have Become an Ammo Factory - Page 2

SLOMountaineer · June 28, 2007, 10:29 PM

LOL! I totally relate. I don't shoot near as much as I reload. At last count, I had 24,000 rounds of ammo in my cabinet. I even reloaded some .380 the other day and I don't even own a gun that can shoot it!

ShootingNut · June 29, 2007, 05:58 AM

If you house ever burns down, BUT if it ever does maybe it will be on the Fourth of July!

Gunrnr · June 29, 2007, 06:47 AM

OK, this might hurt for a minute, but you now need to stand up and say, "My name is _________ and I'm a Brassaholic". I need to find help. I need to find vast open fields where people with more money than brains do their shooting. I need more friends. I need MORE friends who shoot quality, American-made, boxer-primed, brasssssssssCassssses.... and don't know how to spell "RCBS" and think who think "Dillon" was a 1920s-era gangster.

I feel your pain, Brudda, I've had the affliction for years. I have been compelled to purchase guns in calibers I had never heard of, because I found large quantities of near-perfect brass in or near my favorite shooting areas. I've spent an hour shooting at my Gun Club and then two and a half hours brass hunting.

Yes, my name is Gunrunner and I'm a brassaholic. Problem is my twelve-step program is just enough to get me over to your shooting position to see what you left behind...

ShootingNut · June 29, 2007, 07:24 AM

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Yes, my name is Gunrunner and I'm a brassaholic. Problem is my twelve-step program is just enough to get me over to your shooting position to see what you left behind...

Don't get your hopes up, I DON'T LEAVE MUCH. And when I can't find a few of my little babies, I freak out and they send my right be into Rehab!

StrikeEagle · June 29, 2007, 07:27 AM

If you think you got it bad now... you should get into casting.

I love shooting... but there are times when I think I like reloading just as much (if not more) and there are times I think I like casting even more than reloading!

Like the kids say... "It's all good!"

gandog56 · June 29, 2007, 11:36 AM

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You are definately showing the signs of early addiction. Soon your symptons will advance to buying sets of dies you have no gun for and will eventually lead to scrounging used wheelweights as well as brass.

Nah, I just go to www.ammobrasstrader.com and trade them for what I need.

BigJimP · June 29, 2007, 06:42 PM

We're all a little twisted probably - I shoot at an indoor range and I also pick up my "share" of the stuff laying around ( I can't bear to just leave it there ...).

I'm still picking up brass - even though I have a 5 gallon tub full of polished and cleaned brass in every caliber I load .....and another 5 gallon tub of brass that is sorted, but still not cleaned, almost full, in every caliber I load. That doesn't count the 60 gallon tubs of shotgun shells .......2 each in 12 and 20 gague or one 20 gallon tub of 28ga and another with .410 hulls( of course you can probably put 5,000 hulls of each in those 20 gal tubs.) But I keep telling my wife, I'm not out in bars drinking and chasing around - yes, I might be a little addicted, but I'm not hurting anybody....but women think you should only have one gun in .45 ACP too ( let alone one from at least 3 mfg's ......I don't know where they get these dumb ideas). So what's 1,000 lbs of brass laying around .......it's not a big deal .....you're fine....and welcome to our sickness.

Gunrnr · June 29, 2007, 07:39 PM

Good Lord, BigJim -- you're hooked on PLASTIC, TOO?!?! That's really bad. That's like...TWO drugs instead of one. Like booze AND broads, instead of just, er, ahhh, ...OK, those two DO go together.

And you caster-dudes -- that's fine and dandy, UNLESS you cast your own birdshot. That's just a little on the kinky side, if'n ya know what I mean...

(OK, buckshot and slugs -- but that's enough!)

...don't tell anyone I make my own sinkers, OK?

SLOMountaineer · June 30, 2007, 05:41 PM

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SLOMountain, Heaven Forbid

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If you house ever burns down, BUT if it ever does maybe it will be on the Fourth of July!

Will my 23,000 primers have any effect on the conflagration?

What about my 20 lbs of powder?

22bore · June 30, 2007, 09:20 PM

Welcome to the club!

oldcars · June 30, 2007, 10:46 PM

I am so glad I'm not alone!!!!!!!! I thought I was sick for wanting to buy a .40 cal just because I find lots of that brass, but I feel so much better now. I am 26 and just started reloading a few months ago but I enjoy it alot and it apeals to the packrat/collector side of my brain. Free stuff, just lying out in the sand waiting to be scooped up, sepperated, and stored in little bags. I even have my girlfriend chasing the emties that her mini 14 tosses 40 feet in a semi random patern. I went to the place out in the sage brush whare I usually shoot the other day and picked up brass for an hour and a half then took a few shots with a .22 and went home. And I thought I was there to shoot!!!

firechicken · June 30, 2007, 11:59 PM

The range I go to most is an outdoor public range. In the summer I like to go before work when it's cool, and nobody else is there. I can usually start shooting by 6 AM and don't have to leave until 7:30. More than a few mornings I've only gotten in a few minutes of shooting time. Too much brass, so little time. I guess I just feel obligated to pick up other peoples "trash".

I did the "reload for a gun I don't have yet" thing too. It started by finding a bunch of 45 ACP brass. I thought "well, I've always wanted a 45", so I bought dies and some 200gr SWC (already had the Bullseye). I think I had 200 rounds loaded by the time I got my 45. I shot about 50 rounds of 45 ACP today, and I lost one of those guys. I'll miss him.

I only have about 1K!

I honestly don't know if I reload to shoot, or shoot to reload.

Peter M. Eick · July 1, 2007, 07:44 AM

There are practical limits to it though. Some brass is not worth picking up and then where do you store it. I noted that yesterday I need to start reloading again. I have about 15000 pieces of various brass that needs to be filled. I will start tonight with the 1000 odd 30 carbines and then hit maybe the 5000 odd 357 sigs next.

I did yes that I need to do another write up on the Pro2000. I have loaded over 150,000 rnds on it now and I did not even do a write up at 150k. Maybe I will just delay till 200,000 rnds.

alsmith · July 2, 2007, 09:23 AM

Priority Mail Boxes are great for spent brass storage. They are square, rugged and stack just great on shelves.

Al

SLOMountaineer · July 2, 2007, 01:46 PM

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ammo factory? WHERE? Feel free to share that ammo when you need to.....

You joined yesterday and already have 52 posts? I'd say you have a problem of a different sort.

870pilot · July 3, 2007, 03:11 PM

gentlemen... i must live in a area that is inhabited by 100% hardcore reloaders because when i stop by the two ranges in my neighborhood they are picked CLEAN

even the five gallon bucket marked for brass recycling is empty... free brass in the sand is rare here in southern vermont... i have to buy ALL my .45 and .223 brass, the only guns i load for...

consider all you successful brass harvesters fortunate

ShootingNut · July 3, 2007, 04:21 PM

In Cheesehead country, brass is left all over the place. Apparently must be a lot of folks that don't reload, just stock up at WallyMart or Farm & Fleet, and let em' fly.

Dead-Nuts-Zero · July 3, 2007, 04:38 PM

When I finish shooting, I tell my buddy I thought I saw some good brass in the trash bin. While he is diving, I go pick up whatever I can find. He usually finds a few but I do better. Hope he dosen't read this.

Another problem I have is the few feet near the backstop where the lead bullets drop. I pick them up and look at them and sometimes it hard to tell if they have been fired. Well the jackets are so hard, maybe they would go bang one more time??? But I think I know better on this one.

Sigma 40 Blaster · July 3, 2007, 04:39 PM

Glad to see I'm not the only one who will pull targets out of the trash cans just to see if there is anything shiny at the bottom...luckily I'm at an outdoor range and my fellow members are considerate enough to put anything besides ammo boxes and targets in a burn barrell outside.

WSM MAGNUM · July 3, 2007, 05:17 PM

Last week I hanging down in the trash barrels at my range, rooting thru the garbage getting the brass I wanted. The Range Officer rides up on his ATV and looks to see if I had my range badge on me to make sure I was`nt some bum sifting thru the trash.

As I was shootin and waiting a couple of minutes between shots I was watching this dude tossing brand new out of the box .30/06 Remington brass right in the trash barrel after each shot.
Guess I`ve got the disease too. I`m turning into a pack rat.

870pilot · July 6, 2007, 07:56 AM

just a thought... if you brass-rich folks wanna help a brass-less reloader of .223 and .45 and have more of brass beauties than you can ever reload, and you wanna make a few dollars for your brass scrounging addiction, please PM me, i am in the market!

thanks

ps... IF i could find some shooting gold on the ground here in vermont, i'd be scooping up stuff just like you guys... brass is a drug!

Hook686 · July 6, 2007, 01:25 PM

... yup, it sure sounds like insanity to me ... but there is a catch ... catch-22. If you recall that book, it kinda goes, "If you know you are crazy, then you really are not."

MAUSER88 · July 6, 2007, 01:48 PM

I do it too. I must have a minimum of 50,000 pieces of assorted brass I have picked over the last 15 years.

June 29, 2007, 05:58 AM	#27
ShootingNut Senior Member Join Date: December 27, 2006 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 1,475	SLOMountain, Heaven Forbid If you house ever burns down, BUT if it ever does maybe it will be on the Fourth of July!

June 29, 2007, 06:47 AM	#28
Gunrnr Member Join Date: April 8, 2000 Location: Upwind of Albuquerque, NM USA Posts: 81	OK, this might hurt for a minute, but you now need to stand up and say, "My name is _________ and I'm a Brassaholic". I need to find help. I need to find vast open fields where people with more money than brains do their shooting. I need more friends. I need MORE friends who shoot quality, American-made, boxer-primed, brasssssssssCassssses.... and don't know how to spell "RCBS" and think who think "Dillon" was a 1920s-era gangster. I feel your pain, Brudda, I've had the affliction for years. I have been compelled to purchase guns in calibers I had never heard of, because I found large quantities of near-perfect brass in or near my favorite shooting areas. I've spent an hour shooting at my Gun Club and then two and a half hours brass hunting. Yes, my name is Gunrunner and I'm a brassaholic. Problem is my twelve-step program is just enough to get me over to your shooting position to see what you left behind... __________________ "Political Correctness is a doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical, liberal minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a [color=#FF0000]█[/color][color=#FF0000]█[/color][color=#FF0000]█[/color][color=#FF0000]█[/color] by the clean end." http://nationalgunforum.com/index.php Last edited by Gunrnr; June 29, 2007 at 05:27 PM.

June 29, 2007, 07:39 PM	#33
Gunrnr Member Join Date: April 8, 2000 Location: Upwind of Albuquerque, NM USA Posts: 81	Ohhh Nooooooo! Good Lord, BigJim -- you're hooked on PLASTIC, TOO?!?! That's really bad. That's like...TWO drugs instead of one. Like booze AND broads, instead of just, er, ahhh, ...OK, those two DO go together. And you caster-dudes -- that's fine and dandy, UNLESS you cast your own birdshot. That's just a little on the kinky side, if'n ya know what I mean... (OK, buckshot and slugs -- but that's enough!) ...don't tell anyone I make my own sinkers, OK? __________________ "Political Correctness is a doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical, liberal minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a [color=#FF0000]█[/color][color=#FF0000]█[/color][color=#FF0000]█[/color][color=#FF0000]█[/color] by the clean end." http://nationalgunforum.com/index.php

June 30, 2007, 09:20 PM	#35
22bore Junior Member Join Date: January 15, 2006 Location: VA Posts: 11	Shooting and reloading Welcome to the club!

June 30, 2007, 11:59 PM	#37
firechicken Senior Member Join Date: April 17, 2006 Location: Savannah, MO Posts: 224	The range I go to most is an outdoor public range. In the summer I like to go before work when it's cool, and nobody else is there. I can usually start shooting by 6 AM and don't have to leave until 7:30. More than a few mornings I've only gotten in a few minutes of shooting time. Too much brass, so little time. I guess I just feel obligated to pick up other peoples "trash". I did the "reload for a gun I don't have yet" thing too. It started by finding a bunch of 45 ACP brass. I thought "well, I've always wanted a 45", so I bought dies and some 200gr SWC (already had the Bullseye). I think I had 200 rounds loaded by the time I got my 45. I shot about 50 rounds of 45 ACP today, and I lost one of those guys. I'll miss him. I only have about 1K! I honestly don't know if I reload to shoot, or shoot to reload. __________________ The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke

June 28, 2007, 10:29 PM	#26
SLOMountaineer Senior Member Join Date: July 23, 2006 Posts: 238	LOL! I totally relate. I don't shoot near as much as I reload. At last count, I had 24,000 rounds of ammo in my cabinet. I even reloaded some .380 the other day and I don't even own a gun that can shoot it!

June 29, 2007, 07:27 AM	#30
StrikeEagle Senior Member Join Date: June 29, 2004 Posts: 264	If you think you got it bad now... you should get into casting. I love shooting... but there are times when I think I like reloading just as much (if not more) and there are times I think I like casting even more than reloading! Like the kids say... "It's all good!"

June 29, 2007, 06:42 PM	#32
BigJimP Senior Member Join Date: February 23, 2005 Posts: 13,195	We're all a little twisted probably - I shoot at an indoor range and I also pick up my "share" of the stuff laying around ( I can't bear to just leave it there ...). I'm still picking up brass - even though I have a 5 gallon tub full of polished and cleaned brass in every caliber I load .....and another 5 gallon tub of brass that is sorted, but still not cleaned, almost full, in every caliber I load. That doesn't count the 60 gallon tubs of shotgun shells .......2 each in 12 and 20 gague or one 20 gallon tub of 28ga and another with .410 hulls( of course you can probably put 5,000 hulls of each in those 20 gal tubs.) But I keep telling my wife, I'm not out in bars drinking and chasing around - yes, I might be a little addicted, but I'm not hurting anybody....but women think you should only have one gun in .45 ACP too ( let alone one from at least 3 mfg's ......I don't know where they get these dumb ideas). So what's 1,000 lbs of brass laying around .......it's not a big deal .....you're fine....and welcome to our sickness.

June 30, 2007, 10:46 PM	#36
oldcars Senior Member Join Date: March 13, 2007 Posts: 375	I am so glad I'm not alone!!!!!!!! I thought I was sick for wanting to buy a .40 cal just because I find lots of that brass, but I feel so much better now. I am 26 and just started reloading a few months ago but I enjoy it alot and it apeals to the packrat/collector side of my brain. Free stuff, just lying out in the sand waiting to be scooped up, sepperated, and stored in little bags. I even have my girlfriend chasing the emties that her mini 14 tosses 40 feet in a semi random patern. I went to the place out in the sage brush whare I usually shoot the other day and picked up brass for an hour and a half then took a few shots with a .22 and went home. And I thought I was there to shoot!!!

July 1, 2007, 07:44 AM	#38
Peter M. Eick Senior Member Join Date: August 3, 1999 Location: Houston, Texas Posts: 2,991	There are practical limits to it though. Some brass is not worth picking up and then where do you store it. I noted that yesterday I need to start reloading again. I have about 15000 pieces of various brass that needs to be filled. I will start tonight with the 1000 odd 30 carbines and then hit maybe the 5000 odd 357 sigs next. I did yes that I need to do another write up on the Pro2000. I have loaded over 150,000 rnds on it now and I did not even do a write up at 150k. Maybe I will just delay till 200,000 rnds. __________________ 10mm and 357sig, the best things to come along since the 38 super!

July 2, 2007, 09:23 AM	#39
alsmith Member Join Date: June 12, 2006 Posts: 17	Priority Mail Boxes Great for Spent Brass Storage Priority Mail Boxes are great for spent brass storage. They are square, rugged and stack just great on shelves. Al

July 3, 2007, 03:11 PM	#41
870pilot Member Join Date: November 29, 2005 Posts: 70	picking up brass... you've got to be kidding gentlemen... i must live in a area that is inhabited by 100% hardcore reloaders because when i stop by the two ranges in my neighborhood they are picked CLEAN even the five gallon bucket marked for brass recycling is empty... free brass in the sand is rare here in southern vermont... i have to buy ALL my .45 and .223 brass, the only guns i load for... consider all you successful brass harvesters fortunate

July 3, 2007, 04:21 PM	#42
ShootingNut Senior Member Join Date: December 27, 2006 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 1,475	Pilot In Cheesehead country, brass is left all over the place. Apparently must be a lot of folks that don't reload, just stock up at WallyMart or Farm & Fleet, and let em' fly.

July 3, 2007, 04:38 PM	#43
Dead-Nuts-Zero Senior Member Join Date: August 26, 2004 Posts: 579	When I finish shooting, I tell my buddy I thought I saw some good brass in the trash bin. While he is diving, I go pick up whatever I can find. He usually finds a few but I do better. Hope he dosen't read this. Another problem I have is the few feet near the backstop where the lead bullets drop. I pick them up and look at them and sometimes it hard to tell if they have been fired. Well the jackets are so hard, maybe they would go bang one more time??? But I think I know better on this one. __________________ . . BANG------------ >>> !

July 3, 2007, 04:39 PM	#44
Sigma 40 Blaster Senior Member Join Date: July 1, 2007 Location: East Texas Posts: 997	Glad to see I'm not the only one who will pull targets out of the trash cans just to see if there is anything shiny at the bottom...luckily I'm at an outdoor range and my fellow members are considerate enough to put anything besides ammo boxes and targets in a burn barrell outside.

July 3, 2007, 05:17 PM	#45
WSM MAGNUM Senior Member Join Date: September 30, 2006 Location: Maryland Posts: 750	Last week I hanging down in the trash barrels at my range, rooting thru the garbage getting the brass I wanted. The Range Officer rides up on his ATV and looks to see if I had my range badge on me to make sure I was`nt some bum sifting thru the trash. As I was shootin and waiting a couple of minutes between shots I was watching this dude tossing brand new out of the box .30/06 Remington brass right in the trash barrel after each shot. Guess I`ve got the disease too. I`m turning into a pack rat. __________________ Henry - Life NRA Member, USCCA Shield Member If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?

July 6, 2007, 07:56 AM	#46
870pilot Member Join Date: November 29, 2005 Posts: 70	having to buy brass just a thought... if you brass-rich folks wanna help a brass-less reloader of .223 and .45 and have more of brass beauties than you can ever reload, and you wanna make a few dollars for your brass scrounging addiction, please PM me, i am in the market! thanks ps... IF i could find some shooting gold on the ground here in vermont, i'd be scooping up stuff just like you guys... brass is a drug!

July 6, 2007, 01:25 PM	#47
Hook686 Senior Member Join Date: May 22, 2005 Location: USA The Great State of California Posts: 2,090	There's a catch ... ... yup, it sure sounds like insanity to me ... but there is a catch ... catch-22. If you recall that book, it kinda goes, "If you know you are crazy, then you really are not." __________________ Hook686 When the number of people in institutions reaches 51%, we change sides.

July 6, 2007, 01:48 PM	#48
MAUSER88 Senior Member Join Date: September 15, 2004 Posts: 112	I do it too. I must have a minimum of 50,000 pieces of assorted brass I have picked over the last 15 years.