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    Cool ;) Yard sale score.

    I stopped at a yard sale to look at a BBQ grill and saw some reloading stuff in an old box. Some very old ammo on chargers some rusty dies a few bags of used brass in .45 acp and 3006 a broken Lee press but when I tried to move the box to check the next one I couldn't lift it. So I took the top layer of junk off to see why and this is what i found in the bottom.



    29 full boxes of .311", 120 rounds of Swissicon GP11 and two full boxes of Lapua 7.62X53R brass. I haven't been able afford Sierra in a long time and when I did buy it was one or two boxes at most. I almost didn't go along for the ride.

    Oh almost forgot I found this in the scond box.


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    MJ, don't take this personally, but that's crap.
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    Maybe something similar happened when you got that random .455 brass. Ten years later and it becomes a mystery!

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    I'm buying a lotto ticket this week. Possibly two. I won't be running of to Las Vegas but I'm feeling good.

    The .455 brass came from the widow of a dear friend and as a A-class packrat I don't throw much away.

    Every now and then a little sunshine falls on someone. I have not been able to afford more than one or two boxes of Sierra in a few years.

    2,900 is way beyond my paygrade.

    MJ, don't take this personally, but that's crap.
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    Nice find.

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    Wish that I could score stuff like that!! Although I did score a whole bunch of gun books once ......
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    You just have to be willing to sort through the ~99.95% yard sale junk to find the treasures.

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    Stumble over 99.5% of the junk is closer,,,but we Irish have always had a little luck even if it's the wrong kind from time to time.

    MJ, don't take this personally, but that's crap.
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    Another bit of luck from a few years ago. Envoy wood.

    MJ, don't take this personally, but that's crap.
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    Then there was the guy who bought a box of material at an auction for 2 doolars and found a mint Browning 32 auto in the middle of it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TDH View Post
    Then there was the guy who bought a box of material at an auction for 2 doolars and found a mint Browning 32 auto in the middle of it.
    That doesn't happen everyday.

    MJ, don't take this personally, but that's crap.
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