I Got New Toys From Estate Sale!!

[jjarrell]

Hello all, I just joined. Hope your all having as great a day as I am. To keep this short, I picked up a .36 Cal Seneca, a .54 Cal Hawken, and a 12ga New Englander shotgun at an estate sale last night for $250! All T/C. All in pristine condition inside and out. $65 for the Seneca, $105 for the Hawken, and $80 for the New Englander. I'm beside myself right now....................anyway had to crow about it a little. Y'all have a great afternoon.

[swamp]

Great deal! Buy a Lotto ticket. I think the Seneca is the most fun of the bunch.

Welcome to the forum.

swamp

[Beagle333]

My..... you sure got in on a great estate sale!!! My wife'll prolly sell all my stuff for 200 bucks when I go. LOL

[obssd1958]

Would you be interested in doubling your money on the Seneca??
:bigsmyl2:

Seriously!!

[tim338]

Wow! Good score.

[jjarrell]

For another $54, I also got 14 boxes of Speer and Hornady round balls of various size. .350, .440, .495, .530, and .535. package of 1000 #11 caps(Italian caps in a red box) not sure of the manufacture. Shooting and cleaning patches, few bottles of bore cleaner, bore butter, 2 fiber optic sights for octagon bbl(front & rear), Clean Shot powder(never used it but heard its junk), and 15 lbs of 7 1/2 shot and wads for the New Englander shotgun. I'm happier than a fat kid with cake! LOL

[jjarrell]

I appreciate the offer but I'm going to keep the Seneca. Ive been looking for a .36 or .32 cal in this shape for 20 years. the little ones are tough to find sometimes.

[Lead Fred]

Firearms are not toys

[RogerDat]

My..... you sure got in on a great estate sale!!! My wife'll prolly sell all my stuff for 200 bucks when I go. LOL

Might that be because you told her you got this, that and the other for "just a few bucks"? Every reloader and firearm collectors greatest fear is spouse selling the stuff for what we admitted to paying for it not what it is worth.

Really good score, I may have to start hitting the estate sales more often. Some pewter and muffin/bread pans for making ingots are about all I have found so far.

[quilbilly]

You are going to love that Seneca.

[waksupi]

Firearms are not toys


They are if you're doing it right.

[John Allen]

My..... you sure got in on a great estate sale!!! My wife'll prolly sell all my stuff for 200 bucks when I go. LOL

Tell her to call me. I will double it.

[jjarrell]

Here they are. The .54 has the sling, the Seneca and shotgun are bare. Not good pictures but all I have here at work :-)

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Me and that sweet little Seneca are gonna chase the coyotes this spring and summer.

[Good Cheer]

That's an awesome find!

[dondiego]

You did good! I just bought a Seneca in .45 cal. and a 12 ga. New Englander for a total of $640 and thought I did OK! Guess not! The estate sales and auctions I go to, the people bid used firearms past the full retail for new guns!

[Jersey Joe]

How come I only find Nerf guns? Great find!

[BPJONES]

A great looking trio of rifles at a super great price. Congrats!

[waarp8nt]

Great Score. Congrats!

[sharps4590]

jj, it always makes my heart smile when I learn of someone who had your good fortune. Congratulations sir and well done!!!!

My experience always echo's dondiego's. 20 years ago I watched a beat up 5mm Remington go for close to $500. Had to be a couple family members who wanted it.

[Fishman]

Oh my, that is a fantastic deal. You are now set up to hunt literally anything if you just have caps, powder and lead.

[45 Dragoon]

Firearms are not toys

Muzzle loaders aren't firearms!


Mike

[jjarrell]

jj, it always makes my heart smile when I learn of someone who had your good fortune. Congratulations sir and well done!!!!

My experience always echo's dondiego's. 20 years ago I watched a beat up 5mm Remington go for close to $500. Had to be a couple family members who wanted it.


Thank you Sharps. I'm not normally the one who stumbles onto something like this. I have to say it felt pretty good. The old gentleman was a relative of a friend, and he treated his firearms like gold.

[jjarrell]

Oh my, that is a fantastic deal. You are now set up to hunt literally anything if you just have caps, powder and lead.


Actually i I won a lot for nearly nothing, that had about 35lbs of Speer and Hornady .350 .440 .490 .495 and .530 balls, shot, wads, powder, bore butter, 1000 #11 Italian caps(they crack a little louder than CCI mags and a little lighter than RWS), ticking patches from .010-.024". The .440 round balls are swaged Hornady. I have 3 unopened boxes of them and can't use them if anyone is interested.

[mooman76]

Melt them down and cast a size you can use.

[jjarrell]

Melt them down and cast a size you can use.
I thought about that. Seems like a shame to melt em down though. They haven't been opened. They still have the Hornady seal tape. I've got a good bit of pure lead for casting. Hmmmmm, I don't have a .45 cal. May have to get one to fit the balls ��

[obssd1958]

If you have a .44 mag, or .444 Marlin, or something similar, the .440 round balls can be pushed through a .430 (or .431, .432, .429 etc...) sizer, and loaded up in the appropriate case with small charges of fast powder, for some great plinking fun!!

(I either put some LLA or a little bore butter lube on 'em!)

[sharps4590]

I thought about that. Seems like a shame to melt em down though. They haven't been opened. They still have the Hornady seal tape. I've got a good bit of pure lead for casting. Hmmmmm, I don't have a .45 cal. May have to get one to fit the balls ��

I thought that was the reason a fella kept things for which he had no immediate use, no? I carried around an ancient Ideal 32 cal., 170 gr. mold for 30 years before I finally bought a rifle that used that bullet...:-o Which reminds me....I have quite a bit of 7 X 64 Brenneke ammo....oh no...here we go again....good grief!!!

[quilbilly]

I thought about that. Seems like a shame to melt em down though. They haven't been opened. They still have the Hornady seal tape. I've got a good bit of pure lead for casting. Hmmmmm, I don't have a .45 cal. May have to get one to fit the balls ��
How did I know that was coming! Many deer have fallen to my 45 Seneca

[Newtire]

Hello all, I just joined. Hope your all having as great a day as I am. To keep this short, I picked up a .36 Cal Seneca, a .54 Cal Hawken, and a 12ga New Englander shotgun at an estate sale last night for $250! All T/C. All in pristine condition inside and out. $65 for the Seneca, $105 for the Hawken, and $80 for the New Englander. I'm beside myself right now....................anyway had to crow about it a little. Y'all have a great afternoon.Sorry, but we all have to hate you a bit. Great score though. Isn't it great when this sort of thing happens!