Furthest that a pistol has thrown brass?

[Earlwb]

I swear this is a true story, I was out shooting at the old range with my trusty 45 acp the brass flew so hard out it hit me on the left side of the head. Must have traveled the earth at least once for that to happen.

Of course it could have been the other shooter to the left of me but..


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I had the cases fly up and bounce off the ramada or the ceiling in a indoor range. The case would bounce off the ceiling for example then sometimes they bounce off of the side wall and wack me on the left side.
My 45-70 pistol was notorious for shaking the dirt and dust off of the ramada or ceiling too. Sometimes a small wasp nest as well. Nothing like the first shot of the day and you get a mini-avalanche of dust and dirt on your head.

[Jtarm]

I don’t shoot bottom feeders much, but the one that sticks in my mind was a Colt Series 70 Govt Model .45 ACP.

Not due to the distance, but the total randomness of which way it pitched empty cases. They would land at various distances up to 8’ away and anywhere from 10:00 to 8:00. Occasionally straight up then down the neck of my shirt.

[Outpost75]

I am told that during WW1 open cockpit pilots shot at each other with M96 Broomhandle Mausers, M1911s and top-break .455 Webleys before they mounted machine guns. Expect cases fell considerable distance to earth.

[ACC]

My Model 59 S&W throws them out to about 30 feet. My M1A1 about 40 feet but always in the same spot.

ACC

[45workhorse]

My Rock Island 1911 10mm puts brass in a low orbit, with factory mag tech ammo.

[Greg S]

An MP5SD shooting 124 NATO 9mm can be deadly to the shooter to the right.

[missionary5155]

I once put a "used" brass ejector on a 1911 that was "adjusted" by someone.
It would launch empty cases at good enough velocity straight up far enough to be hard to see up there. It was a fun novelty as my son was having a ball trying to catch them on the way down.
But that ejector was removed and a new one installed that was not cut off to short.

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

A Polish P-64 (9mm Mak) of mine would launch them 50 feet...to random spots/directions, making brass tough to recover at my range. Powder charge didn't seem to matter. So after loosing a bunch of brass that I painstakingly converted, the P-64 became a safe queen.

[45DUDE]

I know a guy his brass groups better than his boolits.

[Idaho45guy]

I know a guy his brass groups better than his boolits.

Ha! When I fired my AR in .450 Bushmaster, I was amazed that it threw it's brass in a neat little pile. I believe a took a photo of it, I was so impressed...

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[Geezer in NH]

My original Bushmaster Pistol threw the 5.56mm brass past 25-30 FEET!

Fun blaster but?????

[WinchesterM1]

I’ve got a Sig X-10 In 10mm that throws brass 20-40feet, my Kimber throws brass 30-40 feet and my XD-Elite throws brass 20-30feet

All 10mm/

[Rapier]

You can adjust/tune the ejector and the recoil spring on an auto gun, thus change the trajectory of the ejected brass.You can also add buffers. This is important to prevent frame and slide damage from steel on steel impact, plus when on a firing line, not hitting other shooters with red hot fired casings.

[RJM52]

Another 10mm user...doesn't seem to matter what springs are in the guns, brass is thrown measured in yards rather than feet... A 1911 in 9x23 Winchester will go just about as far with factory 1450 fps ammo...

The Mauser Broomhandle throws brass straight up....you can shoot, check the target, put your hand out and catch the brass on the way down...

[armoredman]

I saw an 1911 throw an empty about 10,000 feet...but that's straight down after it hit the ocean.

[sharps4590]

I like jtarm's description...."bottom feeders"

I have bottom feeder's in 22, 25 ACP, 32 ACP, 380 ACP, 9mm Mak and 45 ACP. The 22's, I don't know how far they toss them. As much as I absolutely hate, despise, abhor and detest chasing brass I suspect all the others throw them into the next county to the south of me. Dent County...about 12 miles. Which explains why I sight in semi-auto's and put them in the safe where they live mostly unmolested lives. Ohhh...I forgot I have a P-38 from which I have fired maybe three magazines. I have yet to see a case on my back yard range so they must be in Dent County as well.

I'm getting more and more like Hossfly....with the exception of a S&W Schofield by Uberti.

[TyGuy]

I like jtarm's description...."bottom feeders"
I have yet to see a case on my back yard range so they must be in Dent County as well.

I used to live in Dent County! Spent 4 years in Salem.

[Kraschenbirn]

Dunno how far they went 'on the fly' but, yesterday, I swept up empties from my SIG365XL directly behind Station 1 of our 8-station pistol line...and I was shooting at Station 7.

Bill

[sharps4590]

I used to live in Dent County! Spent 4 years in Salem.

Hey Ty, I don't believe they made it to Salem...no one I know there has said anything, however, I believe if a fella checked due south of me, just across the Phelps/Dent county line, they would find a pile of brass for the aforementioned cartridges......

[GooseGestapo]

Circa 1990, I had a S&W 1006. With Norma factory loads, it could hurt someone standing beside you. I sent a friend to the ER with a cut and burn from a case hitting him on the forehead standing 15feet beside me. Took 3 stitches to sew him up!
45-50feet? Yeah, sounds about right!