Retrieving Brass

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What is your method. I normally just pick 'em up but I think the grounds guy at our club is slowing down or something. It is a challenge finding the spent cases in 6" of grass! :mad:
 
I have a brass catcher for my ar, it works 90% of the time, other wise I pick up everything and sort it later
 
When I used to shoot my m-1 carbine a lot I would lay out an old sheet in the approximate area where most round would land. Really did help, those little boogers could hide everywhere.
 
Not sure why but my Mini14 launches brass into the next county ... I need a brass catcher for sure ... I consider stooping over to pick up the brass my exercise of the day
 
Not sure why but my Mini14 launches brass into the next county .
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I thought that was something that they all did until a few years ago when a friend brought his new to him mini down to the farm and we were shooting it with one of my Ranch mini’s. The regular mini doesn’t throw them near as far but it also has no provisions for scope mounting.
 
I watched a gentleman next to me drape a old hand towel over his scope and it covered his ejection port....the round would it the draped towel and just plop in a neat pile. Brilliant
 
The "range" where I shoot is just dirt, small rocke, shotgun shells and assorted small pieces of trash. I took a telescoping squeegie handle and inserted a piece of 3/1" steel rod in the end. The rod has a tapered end. approx. 1 1/2" and bent at 90 degrees. I just stick the rod tip in the case mouth and pick it up. Not as fast as some methods, I just stroll around the area with my "picker-upper" in one hand and a coffee can in the other. Another aid to retrieving brass; I only clean/tumble two cases to a high shine, my 30-06 for my Garand, and 45 ACP. My other cases either don't go far, are manually removed from the gun or like 9mm, I'm not bothered if I don't find them all.

Brass catchers work, but I already have too much equipment to haul and deploy...
 
A grandchild, 1 cent a case cash bounty and a trip to Dairy Queen usually gets it done.
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I love that answer. My first grandchild is just less than 8 months old right now, but my day is coming!
 
I picked up an idea from an old guy at the proving grounds,
He simply took a canvas tarp (OD Green, go figure) to the side of the bench, let it drop down and connected the other side to poles between bench stations.
The brass hit the tarp, rolled to the bottom.

I went one step farther, I cut a hole in the bottom and slid a bucket under it.
You have to shake the tarp when you are done, but everything falls into the bucket.

The local range rolls out heavy construction plastic, has it on a rounded edge 4x4 with a hand crank & universal joint on the end of the 4x4 they use to roll it back up quickly.
Keeps people from tearing up the grass when it's wet & they have a shoot.
They just leave it rolled up when they aren't needing to extend the firing line.

As for fishing brass out of grass, did the idea of running a weed eater before you shoot cross your mind?
I'm sure the range wouldn't complain if someone helped with grounds keeping!

I started with chip gravel... The weeds tried to take over, so I salted the ground.
15 years later I wish I would have got a few sheets of tin and laid them down before the gravel so weeds didn't march on me in force... Like my grandpa used to do with tin sheets, tin cans, etc before he laid a path or drive.
The old guys had it figured out, but they didn't throw anything away, it all found a use.

Underlayment would keep my salt & gravel where I put it...
 
Thanks all. Definitely more than a couple of good ideas here. I do have one of them brass catchers, but it only catches about a third of the cases. The nut pickers don't work well in 6" grass. I have one and it's great on really short grass. I'm gonna give the tarp a try.
 
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