Lucked out at the gun store!

[luvsmiths]

And nobody threw the widow a couple of bucks?

Throw her a couple bucks?

The Store got a $65 HAZMAT fee.

 

[luvsmiths]

I really wanted to give you a like for your post (op) but I just couldn't. Nothing wrong with the posting, but that is just wrong. I'd have given her a fiver for gas money.

Right? The first comment was if I wasn't in a rush, I would have asked her what else she had.
SMH

 

[Engineer1911]

They walk among us, both the innocent and those who take unbridled advantage of them. I would have trouble sleeping that night.

 

[Mark Pilcher]

Took the liberty of rotating your picture.
Nice score.
What was the year that can was manufactured?

How do you tell? I loaded up some 158 grain SWC with 3.0 grains of it, and it worked just fine. As long as it's kept cool and dry, and out of sunlight it will last a long time. About 20 years ago, I was shooting ammo that had been loaded in 1937.

 

[Mark Pilcher]

Right? The first comment was if I wasn't in a rush, I would have asked her what else she had.
SMH

As would I, did you miss the part where I was waiting for my first suppressor?

 

[Mark Pilcher]

They walk among us, both the innocent and those who take unbridled advantage of them. I would have trouble sleeping that night.

Do you force your way into other peoples conversations on the regular? I don't. For all I know she had made the arrangement with the gun shop well in advance of that day. If someone is making a deal, whether advantageous to the seller or buyer, I tend to stay out of it if it doesn't involve me directly. You tell me how to graciously horn in on someone else's deal. Seriously!

 

[Nemo288]

edited

How do you tell? I loaded up some 158 grain SWC with 3.0 grains of it, and it worked just fine. As long as it's kept cool and dry, and out of sunlight it will last a long time. About 20 years ago, I was shooting ammo that had been loaded in 1937.

Many times the lot number will have some kind of relation to the year of manufacture.
Try looking up that lot number and maker for the year on the internet.

Edit:
I have done some searches without success for Hercules years of manufacture by lot number.
Anyone out there have a data table for this?

 

[desi2358]

We often got people bringing guns and various gun related items into the store that they had inherited wanting to get rid of them.... Guns were always a negotiable item, in all the years we were open only had one person insist on giving a gun without receiving anything for it.

Ammo, reloading items and accessories were a different matter. many times they had sold off the guns and simply wanted the rest of the stuff gone. Some people hoped the items had some value and we would try to work out a fair deal for both sides. Some simply didn't care and just wanted the stuff out of their house and they didn't ask for anything for it..... It was either give it to us or drop it off to the Police Dept. or Fire Dept. to dispose of it.

Some of the "free" stuff was perfectly good, useable items (factory ammo, components, gun cleaning supplies, other accessories) and some wasn't (reloaded ammo, water damaged boxes, small amounts of loose odds and ends).......... The good stuff we priced and sold, being "free" was no reason not to and we had bills to pay. As to all the non-saleable items, me being the resident tinkerer, I usually ended up hauling it home to do what I could with it. Some of it I never got around to messing with till some time after we closed the store. I have broken down an awful lot of unknown reloads and damaged ammo to salvage useable components.

My point being to agree with the OP.......... You don't know any more about the situation than he did at the time (and you still don't) and jumping into someone else's deal is a good way to make yourself unwelcome.......... The fact that she gave them the powder is irrelevant, the store is a business and if an item has some value they certainly can turn around and sell it.

 

[Llance]

I'm guilty of stepping into a conversation between a seller and a store salesperson. I was polite and simply inquired about the selling price. The gentleman was wanting to relieve himself of a Winchester 1894 M94 XXX. We were in a Gander Mountain store that was going to close soon (I didn't know it at the time) and the gentleman wanted $400.00 for his rifle. I don't think it has had twenty rounds down the barrel. The store was only going to give him somewhere around $275.00 or so. The rifle is in .45 Colt, and I had been looking for one. I offered him his full asking price and we parted company pleasantly. Two weeks later G.M. was closed.

I have a rifle which is older than me by many years. (more than half a century) and the newest ammo I have been able to find for it was made in 1926. The rifle was made in 1886. Some shoots fine some, doesn't go bang, and some only goes poooof. I know there is a place in Colorado where they make new ammo for the rifle and I'm wanting to order some, I just don't know who or where.

Trouble sleeping at night; yeah, I'd have some, but it would only be because the smile on my face would keep me awake.

Llance

 

[Buick]

I've got a keg of Unique like that out in the packhouse. Belonged to my Dad. It must be from the early 80's. I'm sure it's no good but I will try to dig it out and get some pics.

 

[Mark Pilcher]

Some of you folks need help with reading comprehension. I had no conversation with the widow. None. No interaction at all. We didn't even make eye contact. I overheard snippets of her conversation with the gun store employees. I only figured out what had transpired after I had concluded my business with my silencer, and well after she had left the store. The keg of powder was still on the counter and the employee who received it was trying to figure out how to open the container.
What would you have me do? Should I take to lurking around the front of gun stores with a pocketful of $20's demanding to know the nature of the business approaching customers hope to accomplish? I'm sure that will go over well.

 

[Skeet 028]

I too have bought stuff from customers that left gun shops(and pawn) with unsold stuff. Mostly guns though. I'm not ashamed

 

[Model19man]

I've got a keg of Unique like that out in the packhouse. Belonged to my Dad. It must be from the early 80's. I'm sure it's no good but I will try to dig it out and get some pics.

It might be fine. If it didn't get wet.

 

[Skeet 028]

I've got a keg of Unique like that out in the packhouse. Belonged to my Dad. It must be from the early 80's. I'm sure it's no good but I will try to dig it out and get some pics.[/QUOTE

Heck from the early 80s?? 99.44 % sure that powder is good . Even if it got damp...it dries

 

[GETWILD]

Similar to @desi2358 comments in post #28, I had stumbled across a guy who was working for a house flipper back in early 2020. I was just getting started in CAS and most of my reloading supplies were for rifle cartridges. Following up on a craigslist posting for reloading stuff I saw that morning, the guy said "just come over." An elderly CAS veteran in the area had passed away a year or so before and his relatives allegedly fought over his guns and took his presses. They were not interested in the powder or the primers or the brass. The guy working for the house flipper was told to get rid of everything and start the renovation work...he was provided with two large dumpsters and told he could keep the money from anything he wanted to take and sell (or just keep items). So...I got a good deal on scare components and supplies, the worker made some money and didn't have to worry about possibly getting into trouble for throwing out stuff...and my son says there is more than enough there to last through his lifetime

 

[paul s]

All's fair in love, war and gun dealing!����

 

[max503]

So how do you open that thing?

 

[Skeet 028]

Pres the middle of the cap...Put it back press the sides

 

[ACORN]

I've got a keg of Unique like that out in the packhouse. Belonged to my Dad. It must be from the early 80's. I'm sure it's no good but I will try to dig it out and get some pics.[/QUOTE

Heck from the early 80s?? 99.44 % sure that powder is good . Even if it got damp...it dries

There was an article about them taking a sample of Unique that had been store underwater since the early 1900s. Dried it out and worked as normal.

 

[apollo99]

A few years back a friend of one of my shooting buddies was starting to get dementia and he realized it. He ws selling off high dollar guns and just getting rid of one fired brass, old primers and 4 lb. containers of powder. I've been reloading since the early 80's and I've never seen the labels on the components. Probably the 60's. The powder was all good, the primers went bang and once I processed the brass it was all good. I pretty much shot for about 4 years on all that stuff, He wanted $20 for everything, and wouldn't take a penny more. He said he was glad it was going to an end user and that I appreciated the deal I was getting. Some times you get lucky, some times you have to pay $66 for a pound of Reloader 7,kinda' like I did last week.