Marking your brass

[RogueSniper]

So sez the range.

The range rules says to mark your brass prior to shooting if you want to collect it. I just take a Sharpie and run a line through the tray of round on the base, trying to avoid the primer. But can you really see that line after firing? I can't. I just want to get my brass back to reload.

What other way is there to mark your brass? I'm not about to write my initials on every round I shoot. I know my blue light will illuminate any fluorescent ink, but highlighter pens don't work on brass.

[Beelzy]

Simply get one of those 44mm markers and do the whole case bottom.
You'll see it.

[postal16]

+1...it shouldn't matter if you mark the primer.

They also make flouresent model paint (http://www.hobbylinc.com/htm/tes/tes9132.htm) that you can use. Heck you can really be a smart-***** and ducktape your blue light to a cigarette butt pick-up tool when collecting your brass!

At the outdoor range I shoot at I built a plywood box that catches my brass for me that I sit to the right on the bench. It has a sloped deflector on the top the help direct the brass. It saves a lot of time collecting brass, and also makes the guy to my right happy that it isn't raining hot brass on his head :-)

[Fjold]

That sharpie line will show up fine after firing. I usually draw a pair of parallel line with green sharpie right across the case, primer and all. It doesn't come off until I tumble the cases.

[ocabj]

I run the Sharpie down the center, sometimes twice to make an X with different colors.

[AK4me]

wow Ive never heard of a range that makes you do that, but if I had to Im sure a sharpie would work fine like everyone else said.

[bohoki]

a little trick i learned is you keep the pen with you as you are picking them up and mark the ones you forgot to.

[Blue]

a little trick i learned is you keep the pen with you as you are picking them up and mark the ones you forgot to.

LOL

[RogueSniper]

I'll have to find that 44mm marking pen tomorrow. I guess it can double as a target marker, too. I've got brass catcher that straps to my hand, but it doesn't catch .223 cases from my Ranch.

Look at the time ... time to ahead out to Jackson Arms to do some shooting and brass scrounging.

Thanks!

[domokun]

I just put an X or some sort of marking on my brass for the entire batch with a Sharpie marker. It does the trick for the most part.

[tankerman]

Just about any Sharpie will do. If I take two guns that both shoot the caliber I mark them with different colors so they can be kept seperate.

[Leon75x55]

I just won't shoot at any place that will not lat you pick up brass. You paid for it, it's yours. If you want to leave it or give it to someone else, then it's your right to do that. Do they charge you an entry fee to use the range? or do they wave the fee if you leave the brass? I shoot alot more than the entry fee.

[Snapping Twig]

I've used a Sharpie since the 80's for marking not only MY brass in a place that won't let you collect, I've used it to denote special loadings as well.

Works great. I mark right over primers, never thought twice about it.

[Turbinator]

I've written on the side of the brass as well to indicate what load I've worked up. This is for when I'm putting several different experimental loads into one ammo box. The markings stay even after firing, and somewhat survive a round of cleaning, too.

Turby

[sorensen440]

IF the range I went to had that rule I would probably invest in a brass catcher