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05-23-2011, 05:50 PM
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Watch those Yard Sale "Bargains!"
Everyone likes Yard Sales. When it comes to reloading components, I have some cautions that need to be given wide dissemination.
1. Never buy a can of powder that is NOT still factory sealed. What is inside a partial can of powder may, or may not, be the same powder as Listed on the can. 2. Partial boxes of jacketed bullets may, or may not, reflect what is on the box label. Buy the partial box for a dollar, or two, but weight the projectiles at home and measure the diameter with a good dial caliper. Today, I weighed a few bullets out of a Sierra 75 grain bullet box of .243 projectiles I got a few years ago. The bullets weighed 100 grains and were .264". Nuff said. 3. Avoid reloaded ammo regardless of the low price asked, who knows what was loaded therein? I got a huge wooden box of reloaded ammo a few years ago that was loaded 5 years before by a guy with Altzheimers. I paid $2.00 and used my inertia bullet puller to salvage the .30/30, .264, .30-06, and other bullets from the trays of reloads. I put the powder on my garden, put the brass in the trash and recycled the reloading trays and bullets. I enjoy going to yard sales where there is reloading stuff. I have filled my library with many old classic reloading manuals, found many neat tools and empty brass for odd-ball calibers. Just be wary of powder cans, partial boxes of projectiles and reloaded ammo. Adam
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05-24-2011, 09:44 AM
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I have one thing I would change on that list Adam. I sell the brass at a recycling center for brass prices. I get .60-.80 cents a pound.
Great advice buddy. GoodOlBoy
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(Moderator - Gear & Gadgets, Cowboy Action, SouthWest Regional, Small Game) GoodOlBoy@huntchat.com For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. - John 3:16 KJV Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun. - Ecclesiastes 8:15 KJV "The gun has been called the great equalizer, meaning that a small person with a gun is equal to a large person, but it is a great equalizer in another way, too. It insures that the people are the equal of their government whenever that government forgets that it is servant and not master of the governed." - 40th President of the United States Ronald Reagan 1911-2004
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05-24-2011, 10:39 AM
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GOB,
The brass was primed and I did not want to decap the cases for the recycler guy. He won't take primed brass. If I do it again, I will soak the brass in drain oil for a week to kill the primers and then decap with a Lee Loader tool. Adam
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05-24-2011, 07:33 PM
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It depends
I was at a yard sale and a fellow was selling a few bags of shot. The bags did not seem right so we opened them. They were full of sand and were someone's shooting rest sandbags. You never know. Take care...
Joe
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05-24-2011, 08:09 PM
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I understand Adam, fortunately my recycler takes it no matter what.
GoodOlBoy
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(Moderator - Gear & Gadgets, Cowboy Action, SouthWest Regional, Small Game) GoodOlBoy@huntchat.com For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. - John 3:16 KJV Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun. - Ecclesiastes 8:15 KJV "The gun has been called the great equalizer, meaning that a small person with a gun is equal to a large person, but it is a great equalizer in another way, too. It insures that the people are the equal of their government whenever that government forgets that it is servant and not master of the governed." - 40th President of the United States Ronald Reagan 1911-2004
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05-25-2011, 08:30 AM
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I've taken to sweeping up all the brass around me at the range, and sorting it when I get home....anything that I don't reload for, or my friends don't reload for, I stick in a bucket as scrap. Gotta sort out the aluminum and steel cases....steel is pretty easy (just use a magnet), aluminum requires hand sorting, but isn't difficult.
I don't know where you live, but all I find at garage/yard sales around here are outdated tools, books, and baby clothes! Nothing in the way of ammo, reloading components, hunting clothes or goods, ect. I did find one that was selling a shotgun once....a Nobel pump, of all things! Guy must have found it in the attic or something; he was asking wayyyyyy to much for it. One thing that is showing up around here is furniture.....anyone who was just starting out or needed some furniture for a cabin or some such thing might do all right.
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