BRASS CATCHER PICATINNY MOUNT Reviews & Ratings

We have already bought a second of this model brass catcher and will buy more as needed. We are serious about catching our brass as we plan to get into reloading someday, plus, we don't want to litter our pasture with brass. I saw the one complaint about the tiny screws for adjusting the position of the bag but I don't recall having any trouble with those, but then I have a set of the smaller Torx style lobed driver bits which may have helped. Without the exact bit, they would be a big problem.

Slapped it on an AR. All the empty shells of a 30-rounder ended in the catcher. I don't have to pickup up the empties on the floor or ground. It is easy to unload the catcher when full. The only negative I saw is that the net of the catcher gets cooked by the hot brass and starts to harden.

I bought a Caldwell brass catcher to mount on my SA "Saint" rifle. I placed the Picatinny mount just in front of the charge handle (end of Picatinny rail) behind a Burris P.E.R.P. scope mount. Works very well together. Even with the catcher offset to the end of its frame opening it works beautifully. I bench rest shoot 90% of the time. Every 20 or 30 rds. I empty the brass. My brass has less nicks and dents and I don't have to scrounge around looking for "my brass" when others are shooting next to me. As one who reloads I like to keep track of my brass and isolate it from others. I'm very pleased with how well the Caldwell brass catcher works. I also like that you can buy a upper receiver mount separately so you can use the catcher on more than one rifle.

As mentioned in another review, its not great if you have a one piece scope mount. I was able to position mine after the mount but it only covers the ejection port around 90%. May be worse for others depending on the position of the mount. In terms of function, it does what it needs to do and does it well, hence the 4 stars :)

Works great but 2 things to make it perfect. 1) thumb turn mounting instead of a star head Allen key to install would be better since I plan on using it on multiple different rifles so it's annoying to use an Allen key to switch gun to gun...and hope you remember the key when you go to the range. 2nd thing is if you run a tavor or similar bore height rifles it will not work. The brass bag slides side to side but it would be nice if you could cant the bag too for rifles like the tavor

I reload and save as much brass as i can. I have 2 of the collapsable type and saw this one and thought it would be better that brass might would be better to go in it. And it does quite a bit. The only problem I really found is that carrying it in the woods hunting it want collapse or anything else to stay out of the way. I'm a country hick who neither has or wants one of these fancy shootin places so i can only use woodsman experiences to qualify this product.

Works great on many different ar15's and 10's. Catches all the brass. Ive been through three of them now. Brass keeps burning holes through them Then I zip tie the hole, and a short while later a new hole. Then zip tie that... until there's no more material to zip tie and in the trash it goes. Like I said, they catch brass but they don't last very long.

The only problem I have is that the brass from my 6.5 Creedmoor is so hot that it melts the nylon material of the bag. No holes at this time. My AeroPrecision upper and hand guard have a continuous picatinny rail and mounting the one piece scope rings and the attachment for the brass catcher was no problem.

I 'll start with the big problem - it isn't very compatible with forward-offset one-piece scope mounts. The mount takes up so much room on the rail that you can't fit the bag mount where it will be useful. You may be able to push the mount far enough forward to put the bag mount behind it, but that is likely to put the scope too far forward for comfortable shooting. It depends on the eye relief of the scope and your preferred head position. I tried it on two different AR's with different scopes and could not get satisfactory eye relief with either. This was with conventional optics and forward-offset mounts like the Burris PEPR and clones. The bag mount works fine with a single-point optic like a red dot or reflex sight, or with conventional scope rings. And it might work with a one-piece mount with no forward offset. Adjusting the bag forward and back is also a hassle. it's clamped in place with tiny set screws that are hard to reach. You have to sort of bunch up the bag material and shove it out of the way to get at the set screws. If you can get the mounting squared away, the brass catcher works well. I finally succeeded in mounting it on another AR with regular scope rings and it works fine on that gun. Catches everything and stays in place. You need to empty it fairly often. No problem with melted mesh from hot cases, as I have heard about some brass catchers. I like being able to put bag mounts on more than one gun and switch the bag between them. I would recommend this product to a friend ONLY after giving him a full explanation of the mounting issues and being sure it would work on his rifle.

In concept it is exactly what I need to keep track of my valuable brass. I haven't used it yet because the tiny little machine screws used to slide the mount are utter trash. They are tiny. And i mean tiny, tiny. They came from the box with the heads stripped to the point i cant even tell if they are allen or star heads. Looks like the hardware is made of the cheapest of pot metal. This would not be an issue if the picatinny mount is where you want it. If you want to move the mount back to get behind a scope mount, then good luck. I didn't think if was possible for Caldwell to skimp any further on quality.