We live for range days — but picking up brass wrecked my back and knees after practice at the range or IPSC/IDPA matches. I tried every gadget I could find and discovered they were made for other jobs — orchards, shop floors, industrial sweeps — not for mixed case sizes or real range terrain.

In 2022 I started building one for myself. What I thought would be a quick fix turned into a 4-year obsession: thousands of hours, over two hundred prototypes, and a lot of “back to the drawing board.”

One big lesson hit early: no single tool handles every surface. So I tuned the design for the big three we see most—grass/packed dirt, concrete, and sand — and refined them every time I hit the range.

A year later, I had a working concept and filed for patent protection. Range members kept stopping me — How does it work? Can I try it? Can I buy one?

By June 2024, our Concrete model had gone from prototype to daily club duty — I’d begun selling it to clubs, and it’s been working ever since.