What creative things have you done to help clean-up?
One time I hung a dog blanket I keep in the car to the side of the enclosure you shoot from, then the bottom was just inside the trash can. About 2/3 of the AR-15 shots ended up hitting the blanket and sliding in to the bucket. Saved me a lot of work.
Now when I shoot steel case, I just bring a roofer's broom.
I wish brass were magnetic.......
So, besides saying "hey, do you reload? want that brass?" how do you make clean-up a breeze?
I sweep it forward of the firing line at the NRA Range.
At this very same range I have been known to sweep it from forward of the line to into my lane. It then mysteriously enters my brass bag, somehow.Originally Posted by GermanSynergy
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. -George Orwell
that happens with me as well. i once had a range officer tell me to leave their brass alone, i'm free to take what i brought but not "theirs". i dont frequent that range anymore.
I leave it, if indoors I sweep it up. If outdoors the brass gnomes descend from the forest and collect it for themselves.
For classes where brass needs to be patrolled I have debated on steel case and a magnet.
For classes I teach, I usually try to find a couple of local kids looking for a few bucks to put in their pocket. Then offer up to the students that for $2.00-3.00 per student, they can avoid the brass call at the end of the course. Never had a student not willing to pay the $3.00, especially for a 1500 round count carbine course.
For classes I attend, I make sure I have my brass bag and do it the old fashioned way, get down and pick it up. Unless someone else brought out kids for clean up duty, in which case I usually double the "fee". Worth every penny.
My local range has brooms and dustpans.
The brass "broom" rollers, that collect up the brass in the rubber bristles, then dump them into a container are great for all concrete ranges, but there are not many public ranges where they would be useful.
I think maybe I will just start having some kids of my own, space them out a few years apart, and while I would have to wait 5-6 years for them to become truly reliable, I could easily get 14-15 years of solid brass clean up out of them. And save my $3.00 too.
You can get much more of what you want with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word alone.
I use one of these at my local club.
http://www.nutwizard.com/?gclid=CN3T...FYh_5Qodt2DiBg
It works like a charm on dirt or hard surfaces .... not so much on gravel though. It doesn't work on the gravel range where I've taken many of my classes. Too bad too given the round count at last weekend's AFHF class.
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