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Maybe I'm overthinking this, but I'm sick of chasing brass from semi-auto pistols and rifles... and I'm too cheap to leave it lay.

Besides fitting every gun with a bag - does anyone have any tricks for shooting in rocks, sand, grass, leaves and sticks to easily find your brass when you're practicing in areas away from a nice concrete range?

A good sized tarp? Sizable piece of indoor-outdoor carpeting? Other ideas?

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Posts: 2516 | Location: Central Coast of CA | Registered: 10 January 2002Reply With Quote
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Heavy mill thickness plastic painters tarp. Lightweight folds or rolls up easily.

Big enough that you just throw it down and stand on the edge and at the midpoint and almost all your brass regardless of handgun type lands in there.

The heavy duty stuff doesn't tear from small rocks or twigs.


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Posts: 10169 | Location: Loving retirement in Boise, ID | Registered: 16 December 2003Reply With Quote
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Shoot revolvers if you can shoot a double action revolver well you can shoot a semi auto with out trouble.

The fundamentals of rifle shooting is the same sights breathing trigger.

I shoot my semi autos less and my bolt guns more. I found except for close up multiple target shooting there not enough different.

Other then that I try shooting in open sandy areas or other places that I can find my brass.

I used a good sized box off to the side shell catchers tarps ect. Even with those one can plan on losing 10% of ones brass. Unless shooting indoors with cement floors.
 
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Our family shoots tens of thousands of semi auto rounds a year. Best inexpensive thing we have found is a canvas painters tarp. The canvas seems to lay better and not get blown around. Get a big one
 
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Good ideas.

I still wonder if a weighted piece of indoor/outdoor carpeting wouldn't be a good way to go. Possibly even with some sort of folded up edges to keep cases from bouncing clear off.

PDS: I do shoot revolvers and bolt guns as much or more than semi's but I like to stay proficient with all types. You're right they sure make finding the brass easier and usually the triggers are better.


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I hate chasing brass too. I gave up shooting semiautos for just that reason - and others but that was the biggest reason.

My son bought one of those fold away framed garden canopies and uses a heavy tarp under it and up the right side to catch his brass but has also started shooting revolvers like his old man.


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I still wonder if a weighted piece of indoor/outdoor carpeting wouldn't be a good way to go

That's going to be too heavy unless you always shoot in the precise same location

Use a blanket or plastic tarps for leight weight and portability

I fire one shot to see where the brass will land, and spread it there


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Apparently this product works well, saw it at the NRA meeting and seemed well made...girl not included unfortunately:

Brass Magnet


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