ktw
08-23-2008, 07:43 PM
Been on vacation the last couple of weeks and that usually gives me an opportunity to travel and check out some crufty old gun shops - the very best kind- or at least someone who has been buying out the old stock of defunct, crusty old guns shops - the second best kind.
I love to go through the old parts boxes, and the large cardboard boxes of "We got this big box of old stuff in recently when we bought out another dealer - we haven't had time to sort through it - we don't know what most of it is for anyway - have at it and make us an offer".
This vacation I scored a couple of thousand Hornady 270 gas checks on the cheap, a half dozen brand new 7/8x14 adapter bodies for the 310 tool dies (@ $2 apiece!) and several shell holders for the old Lee screw in shell holder priming tool in sizes that I have been looking for for some time.
Our travels also took us to the Chicago Field Museum (natural history) the other day. In the Native American section they had on display these handmade, wooden round ball molds from Alaska and the Pacific Northwest:
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g232/ktwna/reloading/molds-2.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g232/ktwna/reloading/molds-1.jpg
Even more interesting to me were these two "reloading tools" in the Inuit section described as coming from Alaska.
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g232/ktwna/reloading/tools-2.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g232/ktwna/reloading/tools-3.jpg
A bit difficult to see exactly how they were used, decapping and priming I suspect. I wish there had been an opportunity to take them out of the case and examine them further. They got me thinking about a putting together set of 310 tool handles with one of those 7/8x14 adapters and some pieces from my antler pile.
-ktw
I love to go through the old parts boxes, and the large cardboard boxes of "We got this big box of old stuff in recently when we bought out another dealer - we haven't had time to sort through it - we don't know what most of it is for anyway - have at it and make us an offer".
This vacation I scored a couple of thousand Hornady 270 gas checks on the cheap, a half dozen brand new 7/8x14 adapter bodies for the 310 tool dies (@ $2 apiece!) and several shell holders for the old Lee screw in shell holder priming tool in sizes that I have been looking for for some time.
Our travels also took us to the Chicago Field Museum (natural history) the other day. In the Native American section they had on display these handmade, wooden round ball molds from Alaska and the Pacific Northwest:
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g232/ktwna/reloading/molds-2.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g232/ktwna/reloading/molds-1.jpg
Even more interesting to me were these two "reloading tools" in the Inuit section described as coming from Alaska.
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g232/ktwna/reloading/tools-2.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g232/ktwna/reloading/tools-3.jpg
A bit difficult to see exactly how they were used, decapping and priming I suspect. I wish there had been an opportunity to take them out of the case and examine them further. They got me thinking about a putting together set of 310 tool handles with one of those 7/8x14 adapters and some pieces from my antler pile.
-ktw