My hunting camp is located in a very rural county where there are no formal shooting ranges. For that matter there are no dedicated gun shops in the county. If one needs to buy a firearm, ammo, cleaning supplies, or hopefully reloading materials they shop at the local hardware store. At this time of every year the hunters go to any of the local chert pits to sight in their rifles. (Chert is a tan color rock, small grain, that is used to build roads, etc.) It seems that few local people reload as there will always be a mixture of calibers and quantities on the ground at any time. Last week I gathered up all of the following at one chert pit:
(8) 357 magnum
(10) 30-30
(7) 270
(22) 243
(26) 308
(3) 7mm Rem. Mag.
(6) 30'06
(1) 300 Win. Mag.
(1) 300 RCM
All of these cases were clean and ready to process into reloadable brass. I have at least one firearm for each of these calibers, save that last one. I don't have, and hope I never have, a 300 Ruger Compact Magnum. This combination just doesn't fill any void in my ballistic chart that I feel compelled to address. As this was the only piece of this caliber on the ground I suspect there is a 300 RCM owner somewhere out there still searching for his missing piece of brass.