[SMASH45]

I use a colored paint marker and put a hash mark over the brand stamp, next to, but not touching the primer. It has lasted 3 tumblings so far. getting a little dull.

 

[gyp_c]

Same here and I carry an old broom to sweep around the area at about 6ft away from the shooting points at roughly 3-5 O'clock...works fer me...Oh, and in the snow...Carry an 8x8 blanket, you can get 'em for about 5 bucks on sale and they make a great car or truck blanket for multi-use. Much better than a tarp...I fold it in half and put it at about3-5:00 and 3ft to the right...

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[GrandmasterB]

I use a Sharpie marker and put a black X on the case head. Most of the folks I shoot IPSC with mark their brass. After shooting a stage you hear things like: "who is .40 with one green stripe?" and "who is .45 with a black X?" when folks are picking up brass for each other.

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[Genghis]

Nothing about 45 ACP brass that is going to come to great shakes by separating yours from the stuff on the ground. If you were running "tight neck" fire-formed, moly bullet, varmint loads in a bench rifle that would be different. But then you'd be loading one round at a time, and manually removing it from the receiver.

I shoot a bench rifle, just for the record. 0.3xx MOA on a good day (Rem. 700 PSS, .223 Ack. Imp., Pac-Nor barrel).

I also load and shoot a lot of handgun ammo. Most handgun brass I just load and shoot until it splits. Most everyone else does the same.

For defensive loads, I'll match headstamps. Even been known to run Starline brass and +P configurations. But most of the loading is with range pickups . . . tossing out the real mutts and the rest into five gallon buckets with little regard for headstamp, or the number of times the stuff has been through a gun -- or even what gun it's been through.

Most range pickups are "once fired" . . . If it's on the ground, it's because the shooter bought new factory ammo and doesn't reload.

Oh yeah . . . Thanks for picking up the mess. We ALL need to pick up the mess after shooting. Most places I shoot in National Forests look like a hazardous waste dump.



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[Ken Neal]

One of my pet peeves is range litter, especially from people using Blazer. All of the people that I shoot with pick up their brass and left over range brass as well.

A good practice to get into, especially if your using an outdoor public area.

 

[BenW]

Genghis,

I'm not so much into marking my pistol brass for quality control (different story on a couple of my rifles) as I am just for the fact that I've always been an experimenter. I like to see how many loadings I can get out of a particular load, etc. As I mentioned, I have no problem picking up free brass courtesy of the non-reloaders among us

 

[shooter452]

I really appreciate the non reloaders who graciously leave me all that once fired brass. I often use same headstamp, once fired brass for specialty target loads, but the rest of it gets inspected, thrown in a bucket, cleaned, then fired until there is no headstamp remaining.

I too resent people leaving Blazer cases, but make a point of picking it up and dumping it in the garbage. Just because they foul their nest doesn't mean I want others to have to wade around in it.

 

[paranoid]

I let others have my brass or simply throw it away.I get free once fired .40 brass.
As a matter of fact,I just got about 10k more last weekend.

...life is good

 

[doctor j]

I use a red and a blue Sharpie pen. Once I have a box loaded, I draw a red stripe across the cases in one direction, and then I draw a blue stripe 90 degrees to the red stripe. The marks usually come off in the tumbling process during case cleaning.

 

[bowhunter]

I use a blanket in areas such as this just pick it up and dump your spent brass in whatever contianer you have. Man I guess I am lucky nobody and I mean nobody leaves spent .45 cases around here 9mm yea a little but not much.