Brass may look cool as it clatters to the ground, but you it’s a bit bad for the environment. Posted on 10/19/2016 6:04:19 AM PDT by w1n1
Brass may look cool as it clatters to the ground, but you it’s a bit bad for the environment.
These guys figured out how to be cool -and- eco-friendly, catching the brass in their "Tactical trashbag". While one fires his handgun with his eyes on the prize downrange, his buddy keeps an eye on the much-less-predictable brass getting ejected from the gun. Not a bad catch rate, either! This seems a little cooler than buying a brass-catcher, if you’ve got a buddy with enough skill– or you are the buddy! See the full action here.
...cool,till one lands between your fingers
Brass is cheap. Remember, half the folks out there have IQs less than 100. I would not encourage anyone to do anything but attend to safety any where near the firing line.
Use a revolver, you will not have to stoop over to pick up the brass.
Why is brass “bad for the environment”?
Please - quit reading my mind - and then posting my thoughts.....
;-)
Yep! Love my revolvers for just that reason but I still have to have my old Browning Hi-Powers.
Brass wand
If that guy was shooting a Glock, the other guy would have to put the bag over the shooter’s head to catch the brass to face.
Brass is worth saving, but I wouldn’t suggest hopping around while someone is firing, trying to catch it out of the air. Generally when I go to the range with people, whoever is not shooting stands behind the shooter and just takes general notice of where the brass is going. When the range is cold, the person watching the brass picks up as much as he can. Obviously we miss some, but it’s better than having some goof with a trash-bag tripping around next to you.
Yeah, but you gotta admit, that goof with the trash bag be sportin’ a snazzy tactical shootin’ pack, and now he be an internet stah too. I bet the chicks love it.
Brass is not bad for the environment so much as it is useful for after dark tasks to keep your mind of off how bad things have become in Amerika ... I reload shotgun shells (12 and 20 gauge) for distraction.
I work at a Sporting Clays range and can clean the entire course in under an hour.
You lost all your guns is a boating accident TOO?!?!?
This is getting too weird........!
This might qualify as a tad dangerous, read; don’t do this. If one is too physically disabled to pick up his spent cases, then he should enlist the help of a friend. For the BCC brass is too valuable to leave on the ground, as I reload everything I shoot save rimfire and other unrelaodable cases, but they are no more work to pick up than reloadable brass.
To those shooters who just can’t be bothered to police their trash; You are part of the problem! Be part of the solution and don’t leave evidence on the ground to be used by the antis as an excuse to curb our rights.
Thanks for the suggestion. I only reload high brass, so I’m picking up with a ‘grip-it’ grabber.
Most hulls today are brass washed steel, so the magnet works well.
At my range, the only hulls on the ground around me would be my own. I can gather up fifteen or twenty quickly enough. Already have too many gadgets around the place.
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