I don't want to get anyone excited but this is how I get free once fired brass. My local sportsman's club runs a range. We are very rural and your 15 dollars gets you a years membership. You get the combo to the gate and can go whenever you want. Every month or so I go and police up the range. Over the last year or so I've picked up 1300 .223 brass, close to 1000 30.06 brass (alot of people shoot it but no one seems to reload it),and hundreds of .45, .40, .357, and 30.30. Anything I don't personally shoot gos into a 5 gal bucket. I figure even if I don't shoot it it might be used for barter someday. If there is a range near you that operates this way it's one way to get cheap brass to reload.