Just sold my last auto for the silliest reason

On the other hand, you can shoot some steel cased Russian ammo and just pick all your brass up with a magnet.:D
 
I actually used to make some pretty good coin by picking up all the range brass I found, cleaning it and selling it on Ebay. can't do that anymore.
 
I have a 5 gallon plastic bucket and 2 Rubbermaid containers full of 9mm cases now. I have 2 Rubbermaid containers of .45ACP brass, and only a little less of .40, .357 and .380... The .38 Spl., .44 Mag and .45 Colt brass, I just keep in a big sack. I have enough brass to last me if I lived 500 lifetimes. Why I still pick up any of it, I don't know.

But, I've mellowed a lot in my old age. I've learned not to sweat it if I leave 8 or 10 of them on the ground. It's cut down on my psychotherapy bills quite a bit.
 
would spend 10 minutes after each mag looking around on the ground, trying to pick out the 45 brass (god how I hate the 40 shooters!).
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The simple solution is to pick up the 40 and the 45 and the 9mm and whatever else is laying around, assuming you are not picking up brass that others have shot and want to retrieve. I've been picking up 45 for some time even though I've never owned a 45. Also bought 45 dies and reloaded some 45 ammo. When I get around to buying a 45 handgun I'll already have some ammo.

How can anyone live without owning at least three or four semi autos to go with their three or four revolvers?
 
Well to be completely honest, over the past 2 years I've gotten rid of a couple dozen firearms. I've thinned the herd down to a select few that I accually enjoy shooting. Strange, I thought I would be depressed about that but I'm actually much happier now.
 
Question from a shot shell reloader.

To be honest I am not much of a semi auto guy, I just sold my last two recently. But I am a shotgun shooter, and can't walk past a AA without picking it up. So just out of curiosity, if you are reloading just ball target ammo, do you actually save much money?
 
You've stumbled upon the hoarder mentality which we have to varying degrees. I've got enough brass to last two lifetimes and I still go through the trouble of scrounging my own and discarded brass, particularly for my .45 ACP.
 
You really did have a "brain fart" , didn't you. It's ok, we've all had them ... and all regretted it later.
 
Don't think I'll regret this one, been giving it alot of thought. I don't carry an auto, I carry my snubby. I shoot my rimfires and contenders for fun. Hunting chores fall to the contenders. I just really don't have a use for a centerfire auto.
 
Where I shoot, I always walk out with more brass than I shoot.

.45 acp is the caliber I shoot far more than any other.

I carry a .45 acp and shoot it weekly. Plenty of other shooters blast away with their .45s and leave the brass sitting there. I'm not too proud (or yet too old) to bend over and pick it up...so this is a win-win as far as I'm concerned.

Do as you wish. This Tuesday, I picked up 62 rounds of .45 LC brass that someone couldn't be bothered to pick up. Made my day.

Almost as much as about three weeks ago when I picked up ~180 rounds of 10mm brass that someone walked away from. Felt like I won a minor lottery. :)

Yeah, I'm 50+, and have had spinal fusion surgery, but I'll keep on bending over to pick up brass like this. Y'all keep leaving them for me. :)
 
at a small local gun store I saw odd invention it was a shooting glove with a net on it to catch casings. It looks like it would probably work... though you may get a few strange looks with a butter fly net attached to you glove.
 
well, it's been over a month and I don't miss it. Gives me more time to spoend with my warm and snuggly snubby. I am giving some thought to buying one of those micro .380s to drop in my pocket on my walks to the cove but I wouldn't be reloading it so the brass can go wherever it wants.
 
There is only one thing I love more than picking up my .45 acp brass at the range-picking up other peoples brass that get's left behind. I have walked out of the range with 1-100 more cases than I started with, and saves me money every time ammo prices go up.
 
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