Woo Hoo, found 4 boxes of .22 lr

[wundudnee]

When I was a kid we used ammo to harvest game and plinking wasn't even heard of. A box of .22s would last most of a season and you would count your shots. One year I had shot 15 shells out of my box of .22s and had harvested 13 rabbits, squirrels, possums, etc. A neighbor lady came to the house and asked my mother if she would come over to their house and shoot a snake for them. Mom took my .22 rifle and partial box of shells and proceeded to ventilate that snake. She shot all the remaining cartridges, while I stood there begging her to stop. At Christmas, I loved the small heavy packages that I knew to be ammunition.

I, like Rburg will never run out of .22 ammunition again.

I guess it goes back to those days, but now when I shoot something like an AK with a 30 round magazine, I think "dang", ain't this thing ever going to run out of bullets?

 

[crofoot629]

At Christmas, I loved the small heavy packages that I knew to be ammunition.

My Dad gave me .22 ammo at Christmas every year until he passed away in 1996.
I told my wife how I loved the small heavy packages of ammo and how I missed them. Now I’m getting them again.

Emory

 

[Muddyboot]

I work a lot of gunshows, so getting ammo is no problem. I buy no less than a brick of .22's at each show I attend. Picked up 1000 loose rounds of 7.63x39 for 150.00, a brick of American Eagle .22's and 250 rounds of Wolf .32's at OGCA. Not a bad weekend.

 

[redlevel]

Originally posted by crofoot629:

At Christmas, I loved the small heavy packages that I knew to be ammunition.

My Dad gave me .22 ammo at Christmas every year until he passed away in 1996.
I told my wife how I loved the small heavy packages of ammo and how I missed them. Now I’m getting them again.

Emory

That's another good reason to keep plenty of .22s on hand. When my nephews' birthdays or Christmas comes along, it is easy to go in the safe and wrap up a brick of .22s. I think, though, that we might have wound up passing the same two or three bricks back and forth between us for the last two or three years.

 

[rburg]

Originally posted by wundudnee:
At Christmas, I loved the small heavy packages that I knew to be ammunition.

Well, Dad an I had a different tradition. We both hated buying crap for one another, knowing neither of us enjoyed it on either end. So one Christmas he got a Mitchell 300 spinning reel from me. I have no idea when I picked it up. Next Christmas, he got it back. It went on for about 10 years till he passed away. My mother and brother didn't understand our aversion to wasting money.

 

[Rule3]

Originally posted by rburg:

Originally posted by wundudnee:
At Christmas, I loved the small heavy packages that I knew to be ammunition.

Well, Dad an I had a different tradition. We both hated buying crap for one another, knowing neither of us enjoyed it on either end. So one Christmas he got a Mitchell 300 spinning reel from me. I have no idea when I picked it up. Next Christmas, he got it back. It went on for about 10 years till he passed away. My mother and brother didn't understand our aversion to wasting money.

I loved those reels. Had two and the quick change spools with the plastic cases. Did a lot of trout and panfishing with those.

 

[Landpimp]

bet if you dig around the back of my Cruiser you will come up with 100 or so rounds just laying around

funny when we went to Canada a few years back, the nice Customs man asked if any firearms or ammo......I said "no guns, and I tried to get most the loose ammo out but know there is more"

He laughed.....and off we went

 

[rgitz]

Jeff Cooper in his book "FireWorks" has a unfunny (now) little chapter entitled "Ballastic Wampum". It's a futuristic view of when money loses it value and ammo becomes a form of currency.

 

[rburg]

Originally posted by thomashoward:

so my dad collected the beaks for the bounty to keep us in shells. we was po

Actually, you weren't po, you probably look back and think you were rich in all ways but financially. You probably had a 22 you could shoot well. You had a handful of cartridges. You had time and targets to shoot. You probably lived in a political climate that didn't hate shooters. It sounds like a dream come true.

 

[redlevel]

The first time I ever saw any one buy ammo more than one box at the time was when my Daddy bought four boxes of .22 long-rifles during the week of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Daddy had a single-shot .22, a single shot 12 gauge, a Victory Model Smith, and I had a Marlin 39A and a Parker 20 gauge. We had a few (probably less than a box each) shells for each gun. I figured with what we had, plus the four boxes of long-rifles, we could handle any survival situation that came along after a nuclear exchange.

For those who can't remember, them was some tense days.

 

[Old 44 Guy]

I remember Christmas 1945. WW2 was over & I got 2 boxes of 16 guage # 6's All shells were hard to come by during the war. I had my Mom's Remington Model 33 single shot that I used then. I remember hunting with 4 shells once. Had to make them count. Just gave the Remington to my grandson. The Stevens s.s. 16 guage is long gone. Got my first duck with that gun.

 

[rburg]

Ammo and family lore is interesting to me. Long ago, my grandfather married my grandmother. They bought a farm. Farms need a gun. So they bought an Army surplus M1884 Springfield. Family history has the price at $1.75. They also bought some ammo with it. Cost was almost as much as the gun for the 20 rounds. I've been told I still have one of those remaining 20 shells from the 1906 time frame. It's an original .45-70 with an internally primed case. Looks like a huge rimfire case. We've also got a bayonet for the gun. Things are sketchy about it not being original to the gun. Doesn't matter, I refinished it back in the very early 1960s.

I think I'm going to give the gun away. I'd have already done that, except for flack from my oldest son, who adamantly insists I not give it to his brother until said brother learns how to clean a gun, any gun. He may have a point. Besides, its not for my youngest son, its for his son.

And I also have a few of my grandmothers silver spoons. Back in the early 1900s, proper ladies had silverware, not plastic, tin, steel, stainless steel, or silverplate. From my youngest memories, I always ate with one of those spoons. If none were cleaned, I'd wash one to use. I still have them. And I've managed over the years to buy pieces of that silver pattern (King Phillip). Just Sunday, at Keeneland Racetrack, there was an antique show we attended. My wife discovered a set of 6 cocktail forks. We bought them. Anything in that pattern is fair game.

Monday I came home for lunch (grandkids are there that day). They were eating Mac and Cheese, using the brand new forks in great-great grandma's pattern.

 

[fredzo]

Call me hoarder if you want! I have stocked up on ammo for everything I have and am just about stocked up. I pick up .22LR Fed. value packs when I can find them because I shoot a lot of .22s these days. Mostly due to the rising cost of ammo and because shooting .22s is still alot of fun. BTW, I found a few boxes of WWB .380 the other day at my local Wally-World. Didn't have enough money with me at the time but went back the next day and they still had some. Usually any handgun ammo flies off the shelves the day they put it out. Are things beginning ti ease up?
Fred Franze