e-bay keeps "keeping on"

[onceabull]

Among y'days sales ,#7146273979, NIB 2C Lyman 452423 ,@$102.50.. Granted box was old style gray/white, but I paid $21.50 for my orange box special less than 3 years ago...and only two of "us" posted on 45 nut's list about lyman making a new run of these..!!!! Old investments looking like the "networking"stocks in 98-99 !!!!!!!!!!!

[harley45]

I watched to see what that mold did also I didn't pay that much for my copy I just ordered from Mountain Molds in Iron.

[beagle]

I think some of these guys have been smoking some bad stuff with the prices they're paying for used moulds now.

They musy have deeper pockets than I do./beagle

[Willbird]

I would think Lyman would start cleaning out the back room and putting the stuff on Ebay.

Bill

[beagle]

I've said that a long time ago but people who supposedly know say there's no "back room" at Lyman.

Now, having been in the aerospace industry for a while, I find that hard to beleive as these comapnies are notorious for not throwing anything away and as tight as Lyman is, I'll bet there's some stuff stashed up there./beagle

[BruceB]

Ther'e sure a lot of 'foolishment' displayed on Ebay, but there are also bargains to be had even at this late date.

Just last week, I was watching a #450 lube-sizer with one die, this one being a gray model in what looked to be excellent condition.

It sold for $39.10, and that's a cast-iron DEAL in anyone's book. It just mostly takes patience and a bit of good fortune.

[C1PNR]

Ther'e sure a lot of 'foolishment' displayed on Ebay, but there are also bargains to be had even at this late date.

Just last week, I was watching a #450 lube-sizer with one die, this one being a gray model in what looked to be excellent condition.

It sold for $39.10, and that's a cast-iron DEAL in anyone's book. It just mostly takes patience and a bit of good fortune.
I watched this latest 452423 as well. It's kind of interesting how quickly the second mould came on line after the first sold for, what, $70 plus?

I keep looking, and now and then bidding. Who knows when we'll get "lucky," eh?

[Ballistics in Scotland]

One of the BIG bargains on eBay, in my opinion, are the 1950s and 60s Bausch and Lomb scopes with external adjustment by their own or Kuharsky mounts. I got my 2½x scope, which is up to modern standards of optics and construction, as mint old stock for $46.33, and with a little hunting I found a Mannlicher-Schoenauer mount which is one of the very few really practical ones for that slotted-bridge rifle. Two-piece bases will be unaffected by parallel or angular misalignment in any direction. You can have one scope for several rifles, as the adjustments stay behind in the bases. Guess why that idea got discontinued?

My latest eBay white elephant, bought sight unseen from Saudi Arabia, is entirely non-gun related. There are people I know who would consider that an improvement.

It's very large... (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7144790721&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1)

[trooperdan]

My latest eBay white elephant, bought sight unseen from Saudi Arabia, is entirely non-gun related. There are people I know who would consider that an improvement.

It's very large... (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7144790721&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1)[/QUOTE]

Shiver me timbers! Shades of Arthur Ransome and the Amazon Pirates! That boat looks like a deal! Sure does remind me of the fun I had reading Authur Ransome books when I was a mere child! That series of books should be re-discovered for kids of today!

[Ballistics in Scotland]

Ah, you are learned in the classics! It was only revealed a few weeks ago that Arthur Ransome played the great game for real, as an agent in close contact with the Bolshevik leadership during the Red Terror.

I wonder if he didn't come into the story of Lieutenant Agar, who was sent to service an agent in Petrograd with Coastal Motor Boats, under cover as a civilian boat salesman in Finland. Agar begged a torpedo from the Baltic Fleet. sank the Russian heavy cruiser Oleg (though there was some doubt about whether there was a war on), and later led a raid inside the walled harbour of Kronstadt. Ostensibly the only agent was Sir Paul Dukes, who remains the only British agent knighted for field work. But Ransome had married Trotsky's secretary, and they may have feared someone coming to pick her brains the way they did his.

Here in Saudi Arabia I have the admiralty chart of Loch Lomond, based on the survey of 1861. It has a lot more islands than Ransome's Windermere, and bits of steep coastline (Rob Roy's hideout) with no road for miles. That was what tempted me, partly. The dinghy I've just bought is quite a bit more... Olympic... than Swallow, and likely to be a handful in strong winds, but delightfully relaxing when a heavier one would just wallow around.

[floodgate]

B-I-S:

Welcome back, John! For a real reading treat about sailing, look up a copy of J. C. Voss' "Venturesome Voyages", republished in the "Mariner's Library" series. After a hilarious tale of a treasure hunt off the coast of Ecuador 1n 1897, he tells of a trip a few years later from Victoria B.C. to London - the LONG way, via New Zealand, Australia and the Cape of Good Hope - in "Tilikum", a modified 38-foot cedar dugout canoe currently on display in her home port. Great writing and lots of "white knuckles" interspersed with broad humor and wonderful people and places. Finishes off with a "Perfect Storm" saga (including a 360-degree rollover) in a 25-foot yawl in 1911, which survived a typhoon that partly levelled Yokohama, and some final words about small boats in heavy weather (safer than big ones, if you heave-to with a good sea anchor). I got my copy from AbeBooks.

Has the Ransome story been published yet?

Doug/floodgate