Sometimes you forget!

[Cdog]

This past weekend while searching for 6.5 needmoor brass, I found a bag of 41 mag brass I looked for a month or so ago. I also found 200 210gr JSP and 100 200gr JHP 41 cal bullets I had completely forgot about having.

This happens when I lay something down for just a moment...

Seems people can become somewhat bitter about components. I had around 45K primers when this latest mess started. I'm nearer to 35K now.

I've loaded several thousand 9mm, .38 Spec, .223, .308 Win and .45 ACP in the last 18 months or so. I haven't shot all them up, but I've continued to shoot. I've also loaded lower volume rounds like the needmoor, .454 Casull, .41 Mag, .45 Colt, 7X57 and .257 Roberts.

In the last two years or so I have bought a few large rifle primers and used some of them to trade for what I was lowest on. I have sold none.

My first memorable primer shortage was around 92 or 93, and I learned.

The vast majority of my primers were bought for less than $20/K

We that have been around for a while bought a few here and there over the years. Primers keep well, I'm still using CCI 250 rifle and 350 pistol primers bought in the 80's. Maybe $10/K then.

Not many advantages to being older, but experience can pay dividends.

 

[Green Frog]

The strangest story along these lines concerns 2000 Federal SPPs whose packaging got damp on the shipping dock of a local distributor. I got them cheap but was disappointed with the number of misfires. I just put them on the shelf instead of throwing them away, and was gratified thirty years later when I decided to try them again… 100% ignition in my 639! Life is good, but you call that hoarding?
Froggie

 

[AJ]

The strangest story along these lines concerns 2000 Federal SPPs whose packaging got damp on the shipping dock of a local distributor. I got them cheap but was disappointed with the number of misfires. I just put them on the shelf instead of throwing them away, and was gratified thirty years later when I decided to try them again… 100% ignition in my 639! Life is good, but you call that hoarding?
Froggie

I have some old Winchester primers and Remington primers in my collection. I should say had. I bought them several years ago for $5.00 a brick to sit on a shelf and look pretty. With the present craziness on the prices, I figured I would try them. All went bang.

 

[Johnnu2]

One of the great things about being really old is that, unless you're a natural hoarder, you just don't need as much 'stuff' as you did when you were young. I realize that I don't need as much because I don't have as many years left to use it all. Keeping in mind, that when one hit's his nineties, he may slow down a tad and lose some strength, eyesight, energy and motivation, why keep all that brass, primers, powder, bullets, lead etc etc etc...? I've always maintained my stock based upon how many rounds I think I'll be able to shoot within X years left on my 'ticket'; I shoot a LOT less these days.
I sincerely wish all you young folk live to be a ripe old age and have the supplies to continue your hobbies at a pace that makes you content with life in general. I'm hoping that I have the time and energy left to finish off my conservative supplies, leaving a nice clean and empty workspace for whoever finds it...

IMHO,
J.

 

[IrishFritz]

Right on Johnnu2! I'll be turning 75 next month and its amazing how much superfluous stuff I've acquired in 65 years of shooting and I finally realized that I only need enough to support the few guns I still shoot. The Lord knows how many dollars worth of "things" that I've sold off in the last few years that I don't even miss and I keep finding more stuff for which I no longer have a use. Don't believe the the baloney about the Golden Years.

 

[Johnnu2]

YUP....

I'm a little past you Irish..... got rid of my '62 fuelie vette in my 60's when I realized I just couldn't control it under full throttle (the ONLY way to drive it);
then thought I'd go back to general aviation after retirement in my mid-60's until I realized that I couldn't see very well and definitely couldn't hear those fast talking, low-patience NY air traffic controllers. No more hunting because I'm more of a danger to myself than the game animals. Still go to the club/range once a week; we do more talking than shooting, but it is GREAT. Hanging on to my guns because, at very least, I can open the safe and sit in my chair and admire them all. Old age really isn't that bad for me (so far Actally, it has turned out to be the BEST time of my entire life.

J.