Stumbled across an ad on Craigslist today for a box of old reloading equipment for $25. It looked a bit rusty, but I figured it was worth a gamble and I told the guy I would take as long as the press still moved / wasn't rusted/frozen up.
He was probably an hour away from where I was, so add maybe another $20 for gas.
Best I can tell, it looks like the following:
- RCBS Rock Chucker Press
- 2 RCBS Powder tricklers
- RCBS Powder Measure
- RCBS 2-die set (probably for 6.5 Carcano) (CORRECTION: Turned out to be for .38 Special)
- Printout of reloading notes for 6.5 Carcano
- Various handheld primer pocket tools
- Something that looks like a press mounted primer pocket swagging tool (CORRECTION: Turned out to be a CH4D bullet swage die with a bullet ejector)
- Shotgun cleaning rod
- Full set of Lee powder dippers
Here's some photos of most of the stuff with the dust wiped off of it and after a quick wipe down with mineral spirits on a paper towel to remove some of the rust.
All in all, I think I came out pretty good on this one.
The funny thing, I wasn't even *looking* for reloading equipment.
I'm wondering about those powder tricklers though... Are they supposed to have some sort of top that goes on them? Seems like an open top like that would be a bit too subject to getting knocked over and spilling.
Now, just need to get a bit of mineral spirits and some fine steel wool to clean it up a lot better.
Turns out that it was a guy's father's equipment who had recently died at 90 years old and he was just wanting to clean out all the old stuff since he had a better press himself. Maybe he didn't figure it would be easy to clean up or worth the time to do it so that he could get more money for it. Whatever the reason, I definitely did not haggle on the price...