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I use one of these, both at the bench and with a tripod when shooting pistol: http://www.midwayusa.com/product/942827/ctk-precision-universal-brass-catcher You can fab one pretty easily as suggested above. If making your own, I'd also recommend D&Ting it with 1/4-20 threads so you can mount it on a tripod.

Thanks again, and hope to see you at CR soon!

Start reloading, everyone!

I think you'd have to remove the brake.

Looks like a K-38 Combat Masterpiece.

What's next? Making sure that all races are equally represented in prisons?

I have an interesting insect incident to add - while checking my porch for a package today I saw a cicada crawling around on the ground that was - get this - missing its abdomen! Everything below the thorax was gone. I poked it with a stick and it managed to fly off into another bush, albeit off balance, since, you know, half of it was gone and all....

Thanks Steve!

You still have to wait, even though there is no background check call. The "1 handgun in a 30 day period" statute applies to both transfers through FFL dealers and for transfers with individuals.

Thank you again!!

Hmm, very good points made on all sides. In looking at this brass it doesn't seem to have been overworked, and in total about 90ish pieces have been decrimped/primed with silver primers (out of 123 total of LC brass that I collected yesterday). But better safe than sorry, so I think I'll save that 'reloaded' brass for the SHTF bucket

I've been spending some time learning to use the backup sights on my new AR while saving up for an Aimpoint H-1, but I have a few questions. What size targets do you use at 50 yards and 100 yards? I'm using a 6" black circle with a 1.5" white center as my 50 yard target, but it was very hard to see at 100 yards. I prefer having targets I can make photocopies of (i.e. cheap) but it looks like a 100 yard target will be too big for standard paper - or at least, too big for one sheet. With respect to trigger technique, should I use the tip/pad of the finger, or the "power crease" of the distal finger joint? I seem to get better groups with the power crease, but that might be because with my current set-up, positioning my hand this way gives a more ideal LOP vs. using the fingertip. My trigger pull weight is standard weight (just a regular PSA lower parts kit) and the pull tires out my finger after a while. And lastly, what's considered a good group at 50 yards, and at 100 yards?

In looking at them closely again it seems that the primer pockets have been reamed, so it's probably commercially reloaded rounds from once fired brass as you said. That would make the most sense since I doubt any handloader who would bother to decrimp primer pockets would just abandon such brass at the range...

I got a lot of range pickup LC brass today and after inspecting the headstamps I'm left scratching my head. Some of it does not seem to have a crimp ring (these usually have silver primers) and some does (with gold primers). So does the presence/absence of the crimp ring and/or the color of the primer all depend on which manufacturer produced the loaded ammo, presumably using LC brass that they outsourced instead of making brass in-house? Or are these someones handloads using unprimed LC brass?

If your Simmons scope was close to optical center and required very little adjustment to get zeroed, and you are using the same base/rings with the new scope, then I'd say yes it is a faulty scope. You didn't mention the distance you were shooting at but if the you run out of adjustment and are still 6-7" off at 50 yards, I'd try returning/exchanging the scope if possible. If you had to crank the Simmons as well to get windage aligned then the receiver holes might have been drilled askew, at which point lapping the rings or getting Burris Signature Zee rings with offset inserts would cure the problem. If you decide to get a new scope, might I suggest a Mueller APV? Great glass for the money and adjustable objective, which is pretty much a must-have for .22 scopes. They can be had used for under $90. The only thing I don't like about the APV are the turrets, which have cheap plastic finger adjustment dials, but if you want target turrets the APT can be had for a little more coin (though the tube is 30mm).

@ Pizza Bob - No worries, but I'm well aware of the differences - that's why I said "virtually the same gun but in a slightly more elegant package", i.e. fixed sights so less to snag/fiddle with, and no lug over the ejector rod. Aside from the sight picture, they feel the same in hand when shooting - still a 4" barreled K-frame with weight/balance close enough to make no matter.

Thanks again Chris!

I -may- be selling my S&W M19-5, since my M65 is virtually the same gun but in a slightly more elegant package, and the M19 is the "blued sheep" in my collection of stainless wheelguns. If you'd be interested send me a PM and I'll take some photos.

PMed!

I'm thinking about plunking down for an M1A, but I'd really like to try shooting one first. If any Cherry Ridge members have one that they'd let me shoot a few rounds through (I'll bring my own ammo & target frame), I'd be eternally grateful! Any variant is fine, but a Scout Squad with irons would be ideal. It's a big chunk of change, and I don't want to end up selling a bought-new rifle at a loss on the off chance I decide I don't like it. And of course I'll return the favor and let you shoot whatever you'd like from my collection, too!

Sandy's good people. Sale went through without a hitch, and would deal with her as either a buyer or a seller in a heartbeat. Thanks again and have fun with the gun!

I think the addition of separate containers for brass by itself would solve the problem of reloaders dumping garbage and leaving it on the ground to get to said brass, no? Personally I've never seen this, since I'd think most people who reload would have more respect for the range than to do that. As you said, there are also cameras and ROs, so why haven't these people had firm talking to's by ROs? When I scrounged for brass, I brought another trash can over and emptied the trash into that one. Incidentally, I did get scolded once by one of the range board members (the rotund, short, and bearded old fellow who is the NRA recruiter, can't recall his name) who implied that I did not deserve the brass I was picking up, saying that only people who volunteered on the work weekends "have a right" to that brass, so I doubt that it has just been tossed out with the trash and not picked over by anyone. Here's an idea - use 10 gallon buckets with small holes in the lids, instead of locked 42 gallon oil drums. Reloaders can still get the brass that they want, people will be as unlikely to dump trash in them (assuming they are right next to trashcans anyway), and they will be easier to empty. I can't imagine wanting to empty those huge drums at the end of every day, for what would be at most 1/10th of their volume in brass!

I wonder what they'd say if I put a smaller bucket on top of their brass can with the label, "9mm/.357/38spl Only"?

Just came back from CR this evening and there was a new and unfortunate addition to the ranges: For any fellow brass scroungers, it looks like the days of sorting through trash cans for discarded brass are over. I wonder what they do with the brass they collect? Let "friends of the range" cherry pick, then sell the rest as once fired brass or as scrap metal? You'd think that between raising membership fees and the events they seem to run every weekend, they'd have enough additional revenue to forgo such a policy...

Keeping it!