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Tinker Tuesday for January 28, 2025

This thread is for anyone working on personal projects to share their progress, and hold themselves somewhat accountable to a group of peers.

Post your project, your progress from last week, and what you hope to accomplish this week.

If you want to be pinged with a reminder asking about your project, let me know, and I'll harass you each week until you cancel the service

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If you went to an unfamilar range that didn't have a rule that all spilt brass is forfeited what would the normal etiquette be?

You leave it the way you found it.

Even the most basic ranges have buckets in which unwanted brass is placed at the end of the session (it is a waste product, especially when it's .22LR or steel/aluminum cased, since those can't be reused), but you're still considered in control of it until you do that (because you may be reloading that brass).

This is why being overly concerned with where the brass ends up while it is being "generated" is bad manners [stingy], and why picking it up while someone else is actively dropping it is just flat out stealing. I would be extremely irritated if I cranked off 50 rounds from my [insert rifle with an uncommon/expensive cartridge here] and when I got back from pulling my target down someone had taken that 80 dollars worth of cases away because "obviously you weren't using them".

22LR or steel/aluminum cased, since those can't be reused

Ask Russian woodsmen about that one. You'd have to be pretty poor and desperate though.