They'd love us. I have to tell my boys to put the **** down because I'm tired of finding casings everywhere. I bet go we through 1000-1500 rounds every time we go.
I've seen folks bring old TV sets, computers & trash to shoot at, Then they just leave it behind.
...I remember thinking of asking these people not to do this, but how to you approach strangers that are armed to the teeth and behaving like drunken cowboys at Dodge City?...
Take a picture of the perp, car, license plate. Send to DNR/LEO...
Sounds like a great reason to get a membership at a range, so that only members can get onto the range. I've never had this issue at MCF&G, HCF&G, ACC or other members only clubs I've shot at.
I've run into these type guys at MCFG. Get there at about 7:50 am on a Monday during the summer and you'll likely meet these guys cleaning up after a weekends shootings. It's frustrating to have to wait until these guys finish scavenging before shooting. One of them bragged about how he pays his MCFG membership through scrapping brass and tried to rationalize it by saying that it's unsafe to reload brass left by others. The thing is, he wouldn't bother with the tons of .22lr cases all over the place and only picked up good, usable brass.
Another guy was scavenging the north bay when I got there so I shot in the south bay. When he was done with the north bay, he waited for me to leave before scavenging the south bay. He was nice enough about it and I think that he was a reloader. I've never had an issue with someone collecting brass for reloading, but when they grab good brass for the scrap value, they are no longer a member of the shooting community and are just a scavenger at that point.
I have had scrappers actually take my bucket of brass while I was downrange changing targets. I am fortunate enough now to belong to a range where we don't have that problem.
Not really sure I would be as patient as you all were with these idiots.
We used to deal with scrapers all the time being in the HVAC trades and most of them suck. I have zero trust in the majority of these people.
A couple of years ago, my brother put a big screen TV out at the end of his driveway with a FREE sign on it, thinking that he was doing a good deed for someone that might want it. Later that day, he saw a scrapper driving away and realized that the prick had just stopped long enough to cut the power cord off the thing.
A couple of years ago, my brother put a big screen TV out at the end of his driveway with a FREE sign on it, thinking that he was doing a good deed for someone that might want it. Later that day, he saw a scrapper driving away and realized that the prick had just stopped long enough to cut the power cord off the thing.