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Old 06-04-2012, 01:45 PM
skeet skeet is offline
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Adam I just have the vault in the basement which is 12 x33 ft and the garage.. BUT I am getting enough room to park the cars and trucks in there...so don't need to store more stuff in there. Somer of the stuff i get I sell to pay for other endeavors. I paid for our Alaska cruise selling stuff and I also pay for some of my shooting expenses. Some items I keep of course..and some get traded. I bought a 1958 Ruger 357 Flattop at an auction and paid what i considered alot for it at just shy of 500 dollars. I helped my legally blind friend at a gun show and as usual he got me a table. I usually take some eye candy to attract people. I used it..and put a price of double what i paid..and the first person that asked if they could look at(a lady by the way) asked if I would take 950 and I told her..no not really!! She ponied up the grand and I had no choice but to sell it..Like a dummy I guess i didn't put 'nuff on it??!!. BUT I do have one I have shot extensively and I guess I bought the other because it was 98-99% condition..and I really wouldn't have shot it anyway. But I did learn a valuable lesson..if ya don't want to sell it..don't put a price on it. Now as to a barn.. I do have a barn on the place we still own in Maryland. It is a nice little farm(200 acres) that does make me money. but when(if) the economy ever improves I am going to sell it. I have a locked vault in it and it is full of reloading stuff. I have 6 tons of lead ingots in it..and maybe a ton of sheet lead too. When i come back east in Sept I am going to get a ton loaded up to bring here. You my friend need to start filling those barns with shootin stuff...BTW those old Rugers are like the old Harley's.. If you shoot 'em or ride 'em you have to keep tightening all screws etc. No nylock on the old stuff
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