So today I bought a 180 dollar box of ammo.
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If you find a nice 722 in 222 mag...It won't be cheap...but will be worth having. I sold both my 22-250 and 220 Swift when I found the 222 mag...As accurate or more so..only 100-150 fps slower than the average 22-250. Use a lot less powder...SRPs instead of large and I happen to have lots of powder that works in the caliber. I might lose 25-50 yards in range but it IS windy out here in flyover Wyoming. BTW both the 222 and 222 mag bbls will last a long time
That box of ammo was a steal.
Now you are ready to hunt a T Rex with the 375 belted mag!
Now you are ready to hunt a T Rex with the 375 belted mag!
I did the same kind of purchase several times. One huge lot of ammo and guns related merchandise from a retired gun writer and the last lot from a retired contributor of Handloading Digest. Scads of oddball stuff. I have plenty of 7mm Weatherby ammo should somebody be so kind as to gift me such a rifle in this chambering. Plenty of 43 Mauser brass, and 348 Winchester goodies. Make a financial killing on the stuff. Still have plenty to get rid of.
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When getting out of the Navy, my brother wanted me to buy him a 375 rifle.
He almost shot a whole box of 20 rounds, before he sold it.
I still have my Winchester model 70 in .270, that I brought back.
However one could see dust on a mountain side a mile away with the 375 "Pill" !
He almost shot a whole box of 20 rounds, before he sold it.
I still have my Winchester model 70 in .270, that I brought back.
However one could see dust on a mountain side a mile away with the 375 "Pill" !
My 375 was a prewar M-70 I bought while in Alaska. That thing was a beast but it was a grizz killer. Great on moose but not really necessary. A client shot a very wet moose after he came out of the muskeg. Made a real spray of water etc when it hit. He didn't get back to the muskeg though. I sold it to a fellow I knew going to Africa. He used it on almost everything according to him. He got a great Kudu and a very good Cape Buffalo
I know a few that buy guns to fit the holsters they found at low prices, but not many that buy guns to fit ammo they found.
OP
Ammo is over half the battle now.
I'd have a hard time being a shooter if it wasn't for stocking up years ago.
When Tombstone moved to Ware they had a table of "not new" ammo as you walked in the door.Yours looked familiar. I scrounged a fairly big box of items and thought your haul might have been from the same hoard. Guess not 
I also have a Remington 722 but mine is chambered in .222 Remington not .222 Remington Magnum.
BTW, $130 for that box full of ammo was a smoking deal!!!
AJ
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A friend and I buy boxes like that from estate sales. Take out what we want and give the rest to another friend that has tables at a gun show to sell. Sometimes we make a buck or two, sometimes we break even and a few times we lose a bit. In the end it all averages out.
