Oddest Trade for Boolits

[wiljen]

I just traded the plumber 100 9mm XTPs loaded with 231 and 100 38 wadcutters for the labor on installing my new water heater. What is the strangest trade you've made?

[Storydude]

I think you have all of us beat for ValueVsActual cost...

[par0thead151]

i trade grade 3 pulled bullets(223) for nosler ballistic tip bullets. at a exchange rate of 2K pulled bullets for 1500 ballistic tips...
considering i bought the pulled bullets for 13$ a thou back in the day, i am getting a very good deal. especially since i now want to focus on precision shooting and not plinking.

[KCSO]

I once traded 500 rounds of 38 wad cutters for a hog, the porcine variety! New slant on makin' bacon.

[sheepdog]

What is the strangest trade you've made?

A diamond ring for a woman that was supposed to cook, clean, and caress. Boy did I get screwed! :kidding:

I traded some surplus ammo to a coworker at a previous job for using his cabin for a weekend getaway with the misses. Another time I traded some magazines and gun scrap parts for some bricklaying by a mason.

[cabezaverde]

I once traded a neighbor about 250 commercial cast for 4 40 lb bars of linotype.

[jdgabbard]

Once traded an old reloading press for an Norinco SKS and a case of ammo.

[Catshooter]

I have traded 200 rounds each .357 & .44 mag for 400 lbs pure lead and a 100 lbs propane tank. We were both happy.


Cat

[xd shooter]

A Bersa .380 for a Smiff & Western SW99 in .40 even trade.

Edit: Sorry I just reread the title. I haven't traded any boolits yet.

[kelbro]

Sandra Bullock was shooting her AR-10 at our range one day and ran out of ammo. She said she would 'do anything' for a box of my 309 cast reloads. Well, you can guess what happened next. I woke up. :)

[Whitespider]

I traded a Mossberg M500 pump 12 gauge (that I won as a door prize at some rally or such) for a Sears Garden Tractor/Mower.

I traded a worn out H&R Revolver (chambered for the .32 H&R Magnum) for a garden tiller.

I traded a Bic Lighter and a half pack of smokes for a 5-shot Iver Johnson break-top revolver chambered for the .38 S&W. It had three cartridges corroded into the cylinder so bad I had to drive them out with a hammer. I still have the revolver and it don't shoot too bad either.

And finally, I traded a 100 dollar bill for an "as new" Old Model Ruger 3-screw Super Blackhawk, never converted to the transfer bar system. And if ya' don't believe it was "as new" here's a picture of what it looks like now, after I've been shootin' it for a few years..

http://i624.photobucket.com/albums/tt321/Whitespider8591/3Screw.jpg

[theperfessor]

Nice looking Ruger. :)

[JeffinNZ]

I supplied a gunsmith (free of charge) about 100 pure PB .311 bullets for lapping barrels and he sent me a BSA target aperture sight for a SMLE!!!!!!

[Nora]

I needed a TH350 transmission for a car I had. One of my coworkers said I should check out one on a car he had with at bad motor. Said I could have it for $25, car and all. So I bought it, pulled the trany, a new alternator, and new battery, then drained a full tank of gas. Sold the rest to a demo derby guy in town for $50. Then spent it on my first Lee Pro Pot IV- 10. I felt I made out pretty good on that deal.

[Russ in WY]

for a 1 hour secession of Reflexology.

[The Double D]

Traded a new Ruger 77 7 mm Rem Mag and Tasco World class 3x9 scope that I ook from my shop inventory straight across to have the rear pinion bearing and the front main engine bearing seal repaired and replaced on my 82 Toyota 4x 4 PU. The mechanic tossed in a tune-up and I tossed in a box of ammo.

[Old Ironsights]

A pile (500?) of 358-180 RFs for a pair of C&B dueling pistols...

[dk17hmr]

Traded about 250, 160gr 357 SWC ready to load for a wood stove for my shop. Its a homemade wood stove double walled 1/4" steel plate...if I dont end up using it somewhere I will just take it in for scrape steel when the price goes up.[smilie=1:

[deltaenterprizes]

5000 38-158 SWCs for a Phelps (Star Copy) reloading press and lubrisizer, sold both and put funds twoard first Dillon 1050!

[uncle joe]

During my dad's early years, he had a winchester model 62 with round barrel, he used to cut match sticks with when courting my mom. The gun was left at his grand mom's house, and as they were aging he decided he should have it back so it would not leave the family. Since his grand father had passed and his grand mother married his brother, (an ass most of the time), it was time to retrieve the winchester. Even though the man was a butt most of the time, dad didn't want to be the one to 'take the last gun off of the hill'. We went to an uncle's house on night and bought an old high standard 22 revolver, *** for 30 bucks, trade fodder. We drove down and made the trade like bandits. I think we came out ok.

[Shiloh]

I traded a set of diamond stud earrings that I took as partial trade on an engagement ring for a 9mm P-89. Made all three parties very happy!

Shiloh

[Crash_Corrigan]

A friend of mine was an avid reloading and shooter. He has 3 large safes in his garage full of NIB and Minty 1st, 2nd, 3rd Generation Colt Revolvers, Colt Pythons, Anacondas and Diamond Backs. He has a passel of the normal shooting irons we all love but decided to stop reloading and spend more time with his new hobby of metal detecting, exporing, camping and 4x4 wheeling in the desert.

He had a Dillon 550 with all the trimmings and dies for all the calibers I shoot, scales and a ton of other goodies. If I would agree to make ammo for him at cost I would have it all. I readily agreed and I have been enjoying it ever since. I trashed by Lee Loadmaster and picked up a good single stage press from Midway.

That was over 10 years ago. I make his .45 Colt ammo and he is still finding treasures which he no longer wants to gift me with.

It was a great deal. Since then he tired of the metal detecting sport and now he is collecting just Colt revolvers. He said that the gun collecting pays more than the stock market. Gun values always go up whereas the market goes both ways.

It must be great to have enuf money to tie up scads of money in quality firearms just to hoard them in safes!

He fell into a decent deal recently. At a garage sale he asked the lady if they had any guns for sale. She goes and gets her hubby and he comes out with a 455
Webley still wrapped in a box new in cosmoline and a sporterized SMLE.

He sold the Enfield to me for the Franklin he paid for both and sold the Webley on Evilbay for over $400 to some guy in Oregon.

Why can't I find a deal like that?

[ghh3rd]

Hey Whitespider, that's the kind of deal I'd like to find for a Blackhawk. I've got my Ruger Super Single Six .22 cal new in 1974 and it still looks like new, although I must have put "a million" rounds through it.

Now that I'm reloading and casting, I'd love to have a .44 to play with.

Randy

[Hang Fire]

As the economy continues to tank, expect barter will become very prevalent.

Now about the strange boolit trades. In 1982, I traded five 50 rd boxes of reloaded .357 with cast boolits for a Remington Rand 1911A1, and I stipulated too get the brass back.

Problem was, I created a monster, he stared reloading and scrounged brass at popular shooting locations like a chicken on a June bug.

The guy who later became my best friend, was a dirt contractor in the oil patch and he had carried the old 1911A1 in his tool box for years. The heavy Cat wrenches had literally beat the front and rear sights down almost flat. I cleaned the pistol up, refiled the slide grip serrations, milled the ejection port to keep from beating up brass and installed a set of Micro sights. Without further ado, that old .45 proved to be the most accurate handgun I ever owned and is still my favorite today.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y92/TANSTAAFL-2/P1010002-12.jpg

[legend]

I load and cast for alot of people....

I trade cast boolits to people i load for in return for them buying die sets i dont have (37 last count)

it seems to work for them,and i am pleased....win-win.

[WHITETAIL]

Hang fire, Nice pic.:Fire:

[mpmarty]

I just recently traded about three hundred 452 200gr and 401 170gr boolits for a Star Lubrisizer and a couple of Star dies.:bigsmyl2:

[geargnasher]

Strangest trade I think I ever made for boolits was years ago, in high school, when a friend let me cast over 1,000 various .38swc, .30 fn etc (he supplied lead, and even let me size them and gascheck the .30s in his lubrisizer) for shooting 2 coats of enamel on his '50 Chevy (he had done all the bodywork, priming, and masking).

Strangest trade I ever made was last year when I traded my boss an extra, slightly outdated Foodsaver vacuum machine and a couple of rolls of bags for 120' of used 6 gauge insulated copper wire so I could afford to run the circuits for my electric oven and range. It was actually about an even trade cost-wise but we both felt we made out like bandits!

Gear

[zxcvbob]

I haven't bartered any boolits because I don't have a 06-FFL. (hint, hint)

[finishman2000]

there's always ONE buzzkill at every party!

[briang]

I haven't bartered any boolits because I don't have a 06-FFL. (hint, hint)

Do you need one to trade boolits? I thought that was only needed to sell them, or is that the same thing in the ATF's eyes?

[JeffinNZ]

..Oh, I just remembered. I swapped a no name cordless drill (new), a prize from a shoot, for a Lyman T Mag press. Pretty happy with that one also.

[crabo]

I haven't bartered any boolits because I don't have a 06-FFL. (hint, hint)

He's making a joke.....

[Springfield]

I bet he pays taxes on all his garage sale money too. You don't? So what's the difference?

[zxcvbob]

Not a joke. I just don't want to give the ATF any reasons to hassle me, nor anyone else here. (if they want to get pissy about it, you not only need a 06 FFL but a really expensive license ($2500?) from the State Department to "manufacture" (make and sell) bullets. AFAIK, they don't have any exemptions for low-volume sales or barters.

I'm not sayin' don't do it, just shut up about it. :) Now if you want to brag about the great trade you made for some commercial cast bullets you don't need anymore...

[pilotsel]

I traded 1100 rnds of 7.62x39 for three NRA instructor cert courses since I sold my russian SKS for $600 (paid $87 in 1995)and I don't have anything chambered in that cartridge any more. I wish I had waited until after the election though before trading the ammo. It was the good russian surplus stuff too.

[The Double D]

you not only need a 06 FFL but a really expensive license ($2500?) from the State Department to "manufacture" (make and sell) bullets.

Not true, the State Department only deals in exports of Munitions list items, not manufacture of domestic use items.

The 06 FFl is for manufacture for sale. You do not need an 06 for selling or trading bullets that you made or acquired for your personal use any more than you need a 01 to sell or trade your personal use Firearms.

So back to the unusual trades.

[zxcvbob]

The relevant acronyms to look up are ITAR and DDTC. The problem is that the boundaries are not defined (I don't want to be the test case.) And the BATF has never been known to overreach, has it?

I'm not going to argue about it. I don't know if I'm right or not, just be careful.

[sundog]

Well, it's not boolits, but one of the regular small bore shooters showed up after high power yesterday to shoot the 22 match. He had a nice old Garand with him for which he traded an old Wheel Horse garden tractor with cycle bar. Methinks he got the better of that deal.

[Snyd]

"as new"[/b] Old Model Ruger 3-screw Super Blackhawk, never converted to the transfer bar system. And if ya' don't believe it was "as new" here's a picture of what it looks like now, after I've been shootin' it for a few years..

http://i624.photobucket.com/albums/tt321/Whitespider8591/3Screw.jpg


Don't you know that gun is dangerous! You've been lucky all these years and are probably living on borrowed time. I think you should box it up and mail it to me for safe keeping :wink:

[Hang Fire]

Don't you know that gun is dangerous! You've been lucky all these years and are probably living on borrowed time. I think you should box it up and mail it to me for safe keeping :wink:

Showing my age, but the first Ruger SB .44 mag I bought new for a bit less than a C note, wish to Hades I still had it.

[whisler]

I traded $40 for 160 lbs. of lead and some sinker molds. When I checked the lead, part of it was in the form of about 1000 44 SWC and 45 RN boolits and some lead shot. They even miked out perfect for the 44 spec. and 45 ACP.

[mroliver77]

I installed a furnace for my local gun dealer some years back. I had a couple hours of labor in it. He let me pick a new heavy barrel NEF .223 for my troubles. I didnt look at them only tested the triggers and picked the best on of the lot. It has been a good shooter and we were both very happy with the trade.
Jay

[evan price]

Bucket full of about 4000 9mm brass for a WASR AK and a couple mags.