Flying brass???

[shotman]

they have a clothes dry thing at the dollar stores it will sit up on its side if you side the rails in makes a pocket . about $6 and is about 30x30 in

[colt 357]

I build a 4x6 frame using 1" pcv pipe and some elbows and tees. The legs are put on using tees not glued so they come off. zip tied some minnow net to it to catch my brass for reloading and to keep for hitting my neighbor with brass. I need to make a wing for it using the rest of the minnow net. I well use some more tees and elbows so it fold in on itself.

[ElDorado]

This is a simple solution. The cardboard box carries the sand bags and tri-pods to the bench, then acts as a brass catcher while shooting.

If somebody's brass is hitting you, ask them nicely to help you out. They're usually unaware that they're causing a problem.

[Fredx10sen]

If you want to see brass fly get a Swedish 6.5X55 Ljungman AKA the finger slicer. Those rifles chuck brass further than any I have seen.

EXACTLY! Real hard to find them all ;(
Want to add that my FN 49 throws those 8mm every where as well

[SciFiJim]

I just figure that any brass that hits me becomes mine. After all, I am the last person to touch it. When at a public range, I will generally ask the other shooters nearby if they reload, and if not, may I have the brass they would leave behind. I have better luck at the handgun ranges than the rifle ranges.

[abunaitoo]

This is a city run, public park. So far, no charge to shoot there.
No charge to use the tennis courts, basketball courts, soccer, football, baseball fields, pools, gyms or any of the other public parks.
We do have to pay to golf. $11.00 a round.
All parks have a crew of city workers.

Being a city run park, no repairs can be done without it first going out to bid. Freebies are not allowed.
When the wind blew off a part of the roof. The city closed the range down untill the roof could be secured.
Some of the shooters went and removed the flaping parts, and nailed down the parts that were loose.
Kind of got into some problems with the city for that.

A few of our clubs were planing to fix the roof. For free. City put a stop to it.
City would rather pay someone to fix it, than have it done for free.
Any donations made to the range would not necessarily go to the range. All donation go into a general fund. From there some bureaucrat decides where the monies are needed the most.
It took 5 years for the light bulb in the restroom to be replaced.
They just shut down two of the three bathrooms.

The firing line is set-up with a bench, an open slot for standing/prone shooting, then another bench, another open slot...... If I remember correct there are 64 benches.
Range master is against anything between the benches blocking his view of any of the shooters.
Range I use most of the time is rifle only. There is a pistol only range.
Hot brass hitting the next shooter si not as big a problem as with the rifle side.

We have almost no range rules.
Eye and ear protection for shooters.
Firearms must be transported in a commercially made case.
Firearms, cased and un-cased at the bench only.
No un-cased firearms behind the firing line.
5 rounds max in the firearm.
No rapid fire.
Firearms must always be pointed down range.
Shoot at targets only. No cans, balls, bottles, or anyother non-target targets.
All shooters must sign in.

There wasn't a real problem untill about three years ago. That's when the shooting population boomed. (I wonder why)
I shoot mostly on Sundays.
Before I never had to wait for a bench. These days, the wait is about 1/2 hour.
Before most of the shooters were bolt action hunters or vintage firearm shooters.
These day majority are black gun. Spray and pray type of shooting.
Which is why the problem of hot brass has come up.

Our city government, as a whole, are anti-gun. Same with the state government.
Over 90% damacrats.
The few friends we have in government have been working hard keeping the range open.
News media is just as bad.
They report, and distort, on anything that makes the range look bad.
I know some day they will find some reason to close the only range we have.
Unlike in the states, we don't have much open range to go to and shoot.
We don't really have much hunting areas left anymore.
There's a push to turn this into a smoke free state.
I'm sure their looking for ways to make it a gun free state also.

[wallenba]

My range has drop curtains available. They are made of a tough fine mesh, rolled up around a closet hanger rod. You slip it through a couple of very large eye-bolts mounted overhead, and unroll it. Weights on the bottom edge keep it from blowing around.
Nothing is more distracting while shooting than having a very hot case land in a shirt pocket. Or God
forbid a womans cleavage! Seen it!

[Superfly]

did you help get the offending case out of the womens cleavage??

[popper]

You have the damnocrats cause they got voted in. Going to get worse when BO moves there. Hadn't heard of the ball cap idea before - maybe you could get your club to sell them at the entrance with instructions and a demo. Or Tee shirts with 'I don't like to get hit with your brass' on it? I was doing fine last week til some yokel with a badge on his belt and 'instructor' on his tee started flinging his 7.62 brass at everybody. He wasn't a very good shot either!

[wallenba]

did you help get the offending case out of the womens cleavage??

No...her hubby was there, and he had a gun.

[Artful]

This is a city run, public park. So far, no charge to shoot there.
No charge to use the tennis courts, basketball courts, soccer, football, baseball fields, pools, gyms or any of the other public parks.
We do have to pay to golf. $11.00 a round.
All parks have a crew of city workers.

Being a city run park, no repairs can be done without it first going out to bid.
Freebies are not allowed.
When the wind blew off a part of the roof.
The city closed the range down untill the roof could be secured.
Some of the shooters went and removed the flaping parts, and nailed down the parts that were loose.
Kind of got into some problems with the city for that.

Who is above the person in charge of City Parks and Recreation(who sounds like someone well versed in CYA and territory protectionism)?
You need to invite this person out shooting with some people with black rifles
and after a short period of unstopped brass throwing put up a screen to demonstrate the need. And talk to him about community pride of ownership and how you would like the clubs to be able to help upgrade without cost to the city in these hard economic times.

A few of our clubs were planing to fix the roof. For free. City put a stop to it.
City would rather pay someone to fix it, than have it done for free.
Any donations made to the range would not necessarily go to the range.
All donation go into a general fund.
From there some bureaucrat decides where the monies are needed the most.
It took 5 years for the light bulb in the restroom to be replaced.
They just shut down two of the three bathrooms.

You also need to cultivate someone in the local media to get these things in the public eye - there is NO reason it takes 5 years to change a light bulb. And make a point to cultivate the elected officials - that's where the pressure can be put on the hired guns.

The firing line is set-up with a bench, an open slot for standing/prone shooting, then another bench, another open slot...... If I remember correct there are 64 benches.
Range master is against anything between the benches blocking his view of any of the shooters.

Sounds like needs to move his observation position and make sure whatever you use as a deflector gives visiblity through.

Range I use most of the time is rifle only. There is a pistol only range.
Hot brass hitting the next shooter si not as big a problem as with the rifle side.

We have almost no range rules.
Eye and ear protection for shooters.
Firearms must be transported in a commercially made case.
Firearms, cased and un-cased at the bench only.
No un-cased firearms behind the firing line.
5 rounds max in the firearm.
No rapid fire.
Firearms must always be pointed down range.
Shoot at targets only. No cans, balls, bottles, or anyother non-target targets.
All shooters must sign in.

There wasn't a real problem untill about three years ago.
That's when the shooting population boomed. (I wonder why)

Are you referring to election of Barack Hussein Obama II?
Or just general Government interference in shooting sports

I shoot mostly on Sundays.
Before I never had to wait for a bench. These days, the wait is about 1/2 hour.
Before most of the shooters were bolt action hunters or vintage firearm shooters.
These day majority are black gun. Spray and pray type of shooting.
Which is why the problem of hot brass has come up.
You know back when I was a range officer I noticed timing was everything, on a day you always had a time period when it was slow (except for sight in days). You might try adjusting your shooting times - before church - late afternoon - lunch time - it can make a real difference.

Our city government, as a whole, are anti-gun.
Same with the state government.
Over 90% damacrats.
The few friends we have in government have been working hard keeping the range open.
News media is just as bad.
They report, and distort, on anything that makes the range look bad.

Have you actually talked to the sports reporter? We did that, had got him out shooting 22's and he started reporting on match results Junior Rifle team then we worked him up to reporting on sillywet matches we had.

I know some day they will find some reason to close the only range we have.
Unlike in the states, we don't have much open range to go to and shoot.
We don't really have much hunting areas left anymore.
There's a push to turn this into a smoke free state.
I'm sure their looking for ways to make it a gun free state also.

You know even a lot of democrat's own guns, and while some are take away the black gun just don't even think about taking my gun - if you start getting them to talk to each other it can do wonders about the power of the people. We used to have shoot where each specialty club set up to let other people try their guns and sport - sort of a round robin where you came out and shot one round of trap, then go to archery then to rifle range then horse shoe then back to pistol range and we had a BBQ then let them go to whichever they wanted while we tabulated their score cards and then gave out some results and gave some stuff away to the "winners" but everyone seemed to be a winner. Education and involvement seem to help most in a situation like yours.

[WILCO]

Unlike in the states, we don't have much open range to go to and shoot. We don't really have much hunting areas left anymore.

Life is a bunch of choices. I'd move to the states where there are more options and plenty of places to shoot.

[starmac]

I have never been to or even had the desire to go to Hawaii, but am sure there is not a lot of places to hunt or shoot.
Hawaii is a very popular vacation destination for alaskans, and I have met more than one who goes there to hunt hogs. I always give them a hard time about flying to the land of hula girls and grass skirts to hunt hogs.. lol

[a.squibload]

At our range someone thoughtfully swept up a bunch
of Starline 44 mag brass & left it in the trash barrel.
Of course you know where it is now.

There's enough room between tables I've never had
a flying brass problem.

[KCcactus]

One of my last trips to a public range, I had a guy next to me shooting a 9mm that bounced a couple of cases off my head. He was shooting pretty slow and most of his shots hit the ground way in front of the target. One of his cases got stuck between my sunglasses frame and my temple. At that point, I got kind of irritated. I got out my Redhawk 44 mag and some very stout 300 gr loads. I waited until he got settled on the rest and lined up for his next shot. Just before he reached for the trigger, I touched off a round. Man, you should have seen him jump. He settled his nerves and tried to line up again. Just before he was ready, I fired another one. He jumped again. After 6 shots like this, I reloaded. He packed up his stuff and left.

[1Shirt]

When the first one hit me, I would have told the guy that his brass was a problem, and would apprecate it if he would move or shoot something else etc.
Most of the time in my experiance that would have been adequate. Would resort to your tactic only after the guy refused, and became a total butt!
1Shirt!