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CSStreett

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  1. Tried to use mine at a local range and they got a little testie claiming that I was stealing their brass. I said it was my brass that I just shot and they replied, NO, when it hits our ground, it becomes ours. With my usual smart ass attitude I replied, "So, I guess I'd better give you (what used to be my shoes) cause they hit your ground too." The rangemaster (a pimple faced teenager) just chuckled but I haven't been back since....... I wonder whose shoe it would have been if it was stuck up his posterior?

    California....Geez. One of the ranges I shoot at requires you to police your brass.

    There's one range in NC that we shoot that Requires you to pick up your brass also. Never shot a Club match that Won't let you pick up Your own brass.
  2. my wife won't let me get one until we get a house. Our apartment doesn't have enough space anyhow.

    Its easier to ask for forgiveness, than it is to ask for permission.

    hahaha that is true.Unfortunately for me, I've asked for a lot of forgiveness this year already. Plus I really don't have anywhere to set it up which is a bummer.
    We've all been there. I had all my reloading stuff shipped to my shop and set it up in my office. SLOWLY started moving it all home.
  3. I'm not cool enough to catch the round in the air and I'm smart enough to not cover the ejection port with my hand. I just let the round land on the ground then pick it up. I don't think the flip/catch is unsafe and it doesn't bother me but seeing someone cover the ejection port with their hand and eject the round into it makes me cringe.

    Why does ejecting the round into your hand make you cringe? Seeing people eject live round onto the ground make me run for cover.
    If they loose control of slide and primer of partially ejected round hits ejector and detonates then shrapnel goes into hand covering ejection port. I have seen pictures of this with a Glock in a training bulletin. Not a pretty sight.
    That make sense. Thanks.

    Of course it does. The only thing that makes me wince a little while ROing is to see a shooter cup his hand over the ejection port and gently rack a loaded round into it. Lot's of extended this and that parts on these competition guns and plenty of ammo loaded really too long to clear said parts reliably.

    In 50 years I have never seen a round detonate after hitting the ground. But in the last 3-4 I have seen detonations in the shooters gun hands.

    That can't be a pleasant experience. Thanks Sarge. I guess that's something you don't think of until it happens to you.

    Or happens to someone standing right beside you.

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