At Cedar Ridge, the Range Lady saw me picking up my brass and said quite sternly: "Pick up only your brass!" There was so much discarded brass, I picked up every bit I thought I shot (only the shiny ones). There is so much trashed brass at that range, they could pave the road with it.
Back on topic I was shooting out at Bexar Community, I actually think it was a TGT range day and I believe M. Sage was with me, when a guy set up an interesting contraption on the bench at the pistol bay to catch his brass. It was a small fishing net rigged up to one of those heavy bottom desktop microphone stands, positioned it just right that it caught the majority of his brass when he fired.
When I want to hang onto most of my brass while shooting an autoloader, I use a brass catcher.
Uh, yeah. To wit:
I should have illustrated. Again, to wit:
So long as you're not scavenging EVERY piece of brass that is obviously not yours, I haven't had a problem with picking up my own brass.
At Cedar Ridge, the Range Lady saw me picking up my brass and said quite sternly: "Pick up only your brass!"
Home made ones are easy and cheap. Just bend the handle of a short-handled pool skimmer and attach a weight to the handle to hold the whole rig upright.Looked very similar but was home made, ...