The best deal you have gotten.

[No_1]

Ladies and Gents,

Curious minds want to know what the best deal you have gotten on gun related stuff. This could be garage sales, estate auctions, online stuff.

The best deal that has happened to me is an almost endless supply of foundry certified 3% antimony lead in 50lb ingots.

Robert

[madcaster]

A estate sale,I told the lady what the stuff was worth and she still almost gave it to me.A Lyman 55 pot,various molds,,2 presses,reloading dies,Muzzle Blasts magazines,powder,lead,less than $150.00

[Bret4207]

A primo Winchester 52 and a Remington 511 for $5.00 each. Honest to God. I used up my lifes supply of luck right there.

[400cor-bon]

got a Dan Wesson Mdl 15, police turn in with a 4" bbl
4 digit serial number, included the police swivel holster
$125 including several boxes of shells, brass, dies, etc.
shoots great!

[AnthonyB]

I've had a couple of good days. LNIB Lyman 20 lb bottom pour pot and a LNIB Saeco 10 lb bottom pour pot for $15 each. They had been left behind by a renter and the landlord wanted to get rid of them. Also found a Leupold 1.5-4X European NIB for $150 from Craigslist. A few years ago BD and I got a great deal on a Master Caster, 90 lb Magma bottom pour, Star sizer with spare parts and several dies, about thirty molds, and several hundred pounds of boolits. I got the Magma pot, sizer, and boolits; BD got the Master Caster and moulds. My share was $300. Tony

[cabezaverde]

I once picked up an "all or nothing" deal at a garage sale.

Included dies, bullets, primers, doodads, etc, as well as a complete bluing setup and 6 22 Jet inserts for the SW revolver to shoot 22 rimfire for $100.

Sold the bluing stuff and 22 jet inserts on ebay for over $350. Kept all the other stuff and traded or sold it later.

[xr650]

Hollywood single stage press for $25.00 at an auction. The 10' bench it was setting on including contents $40.00.
The bench had used rifle barrels, vickerman dies, CH shell holders and a miriad of other useful schtuff.

[DLCTEX]

I bought a box for $5 at an auction with 12 boxes of 243 brass, 9 of 22-250 brass, a box of 30 Rem. ammo, a box of 240 Wby. ammo, 6 boxes of 5mm Rem. ammo, a Bushnell bore sighter in it's case, and a few other odds and ends. Gave a preacher freind a deal on the 5mm ammo for $100, he was tickled to get it as at that time it would have brought $240. At another auction I bought 12,000 shotgun wads(mostly Rem. 1 1/8 ounce) and 150 # shot for $32. I let my brother (trap shooter) have 10,00 wads and half the shot for the $32. My best auction buy wasn't shooting related, but was a room full of odds and ends for $10 that netted me over $2,000. DALE

[exile]

Pre-1964 Winchester Model 70 in 30-06 for $ 200.00 at an estate sale. Actually my sister found it, called me, and bought it for me. When I say 'pre-64" I mean with a serial # in the 66,000 range. I took it to a gunshop to have the cosmoline removed and the guy said he did not think it had ever been fired.

I am not particularly a hunter nor a collecter. So, after five years I sold it to a friend who will shoot a deer with it occassionally and give it the respect it deserves. It was nice to see someone else beg their wife for a "new" gun for a change.

I wish I could find the same kind of deal on a Smith and Wesson 460 or a single-shot rolling block rifle. That I would keep and shoot, a lot.

exile

[missionary5155]

I have a Felow Church member who saves me a 5 gallon bucket of WW (truck) so when I return it is waiting to get processed. He gets all the .44 boolits he can shoot.. about 20 per year. All I do is call him a week or two in advance when I am running low.

[txbirdman]

Got a "like new" Colt SAA 4 3/4" in .44 Spcl for $450 but I know someone who got a better deal than that --- my son. I gave it to him when he graduated college.

[ktw]

I hit up one of the local tire shops for wheelweights once. They didn't have any wheelweights for me, but in the course of discussing it the manager mentioned that he had a bunch of once fired brass he wanted to get rid of (~1000, 30-06 and 30-30), no charge, and he pointed me to a metal fabricator down the street who used to do radiators. That guy had two 5 gallon buckets of solder sweepings kicking around in the back of his shop that he wanted to get rid of, no charge.

I helped an old friend do some shingling on a new house he was building. While up on the roof the conversation got around to guns. He had a couple of old family guns he had no use for and was tired of moving around from place to place. Sent me home with an old Remington 81 Woodsmaster in 300 Savage and an old square bolt Marlin 36 in 32 Special.

-ktw

[mtnman31]

Just recently picked up a nearly new Dillon 550 with complete tool heads for .45ACP, 9mm, and .357(new). Included with the sale was a box of spare parts for the Dillon, a Forster case trimmer, and around 10,000 primers, around 10,000 factory cast lead .45 and 9mm bullets, a few hundred new cases, and a few other odds and ends. All for the price of 550 bucks. The classified ad I replied to was just for the Dillon stuff. When I got there my jaw hit the floor as he showed me the pile of bullets, brass, primers, and powder he was throwing in. Needless to say, I did not try to talk him down on price. Really nice older gent who was getting out of relaoding. He even called me up a few days later to have me come by and pick up a few more items he had uncovered.

[FN in MT]

Had a neighbor give me 120 pounds of assorted powder and several thousand primers, ten years back.

Found a shooter grade S&W M-66 4" at a shop for a very fair price. It had a horrible pair of LARGE wood grips but bought it as a shooter for $240. Took the grips off and discovered it was an ex- MT Fish & Wildlife Wardens gun. The gigantic grips had hidden the FWP logo on the frame. Only 130 had been produced and most of them had sold at auction for double or more...than I paid.

Way back when I first started the cop job in 1974 a neighbor gave me her ww2 Veteran husbands old 1911A1 that was in 98% shape with a tanker holster and a dozen lanyard loop GI mags.

But THE best deal I probably EVER had was when shot on the NJ Natl Guard pistol team, 1972 to 1975. We met to practice at an indoor range at the Prison in Trenton each Friday. The Coach wheeled in a cart with several full cans of .45 Match ball, .45 WW 185 gr wadcutter. A can or two of WW .38 wadcutter and dozens of bricks of .22 match pistol ammo for each session. He refused to cart anything but EMPTY cans back to the Armory. So we all split the loaded ammo up each week. Brass was a "throw-away" too so I had thousands of rds of Match .45 brass for years and years. Gotta love those "tax dollars at work".

FN in MT

[buckndee]

Lugged off with 3200lb new unused clip on WW and 100lb stick on WW, for FREE other than the back ache.

Widowed women gave 4500 loaded 45ACP's, 80k primers, 5lbs powder. 7000 30 carbine brass (same LC 52 lot), 15k 38sp cases, 1000 357 cases, 15 boxes factory 32ACP, 8k cast bullets, 10 bags of shot, and a bunch of odds and ends.

Think I have used up my good luck karma.

Maybe I can give some back. Anyone have a use for 6000 #57 shotgun primers?

[Springfield]

I answered and ad that said he had about 300 lbs of lead ingots, and a Dillon Square deal, for 150.00. When I got there after a 100 mile drive, he said he also had a few more things he didn't need any more. Like a case trimmer, 3 -44 mag moulds, and a bunch of small stuff like primer pocket cleaners, etc. After we got it all loaded up, he said "you may as well have this too", and he gave me an old 32 ACP Ruby semi auto pistol. It didn't look like much, but it cleaned up real well and works fine, after I bought a mag for it. And the lead ended up being almost 500 lbs. People always underestimate the weight of lead.

[felix]

The best deal is materialized by the friendship we obtain from folks on the board. We can tell who the better friends are by their generosity without regard to their possessions and station in life. For example, the tire guy I do business with gave Corky and me his 1500+ pound accumulation of WW for free on several occasions. I payed the business beer bust fund 50 bucks each time to make it look like we weren't going to just rob the joint. Corky spent 50 bucks in transportation of same to the local of smelting, plus the time and energy to do the work of making 10 pound ingots. Total cost per pound? Well, in terms of dollars and cents, way too much for the monetary value returned. The fun part is that we emotionally made BIG MONEY together. ... felix

[madcaster]

Good point Felix!

[EMC45]

Called my local pawnshop on the hunt for any goodies and the kind lady says "I was just looking for your number. A guy came in and tried to sell us a bunch of reloading gear. We told him we didn't want it and we told him we would send someone to him" (me!). I went to meet the guy and he had 2 large totes on the ground in his car port slap full of reloading gear and gunsmithing stuff. 1010 RCBS scale, Lee Challenger, 9 sets of dies, bullets out the wazoo, files, 1911 parts, sights, grips, Uniflow, Universal Lyman Case trimmer, holsters, 4 reloading manuals, and a bunch of other "stuff". I talked to the guy (really great guy) for a while and I asked him "how much?" He asked "how much is it worth to you?"(I then realized this could go on all afternoon) I thought to offer him 150 bucks for everything, but I just told him I didn't want to insult him with my offer so I told him shoot me a price. "How's 50 bucks sound young fella?" I had to hide the excitement! He told me to take all the stuff home and unload it and bring the totes back and then pay him. All I had were 3 20 dollar bills. He said "I only told you 50" I told him it was worth 60 to me! I have since sold almost all the stuff from that day. A lot of it here. I gave some away as well to a buddy wanting to get into reloading. Also got an FR8 from the same aforementioned pawnshop for 77 bucks!!! I looked it up on line that night and found another for sale for 450!!! Mine looked unfired with a perfect bore with no brass marks on bolt or follower. Absolutely pristine!

[SpaceGlocker]

Sometimes you just get lucky...was scrounging for lead when an asst. manager at one of the tire shops said his dad died a few years ago and was a gunsmith. Went to look at what he had to offer....it was a full shop of stuff! Thousands of Bullets, Brass....hundreds of reloading dies, sizing dies, moulds, lube etc. A lubrisizer, cases of Hoppes bore cleaner, 500lbs of lead and alloys, tons of cast bullets.....bought it all for $500. A big thank you to all who bought most of this stuff on this and other boards....made close to $5,000 and gave away at least $2,000 in stuff to my friends. Wish I could find another deal like that again!

[BD]

I answered an add in "Uncle Henry's" (Maines statewide swap & shop rag) for a gentleman selling a Lyman 20 lb bottom pour pot for $80. I told him it was worth that to me and made the hour drive to go get it. He was an older guy who was moving down to Florida and knew a couple of the IDPA shooters I shot with in northern Maine. We put the pot in the back of the Subaru and then he started into the "You might as well take this too...and this.. and this..". A 1/2 hour later I had a Lyman 450, 1/2 dozen lyman molds, 4 ammo cans full of cast, lubed and sized .358 148 g, SWCs, 300 lb of lead ingots, 2 dozen sticks of various lube, a thermometer and about 50 lb of lino. The Subaru was really dragging tail so I passed on several cast iron dutch ovens and an anvil. He wouldn't take another nickle over the original $80 so I spent another hour helping him load his lawn equipment and tools on a trailer.

My brother bought my .270 WBY MK IV, new in the box, never had sights or a scope mounted, for $400 at an estate auction.

I saw an add in the Natchez catalog for DW 744's w/6" barrels on a close out for $289. I had my credit card out and completed the order in 5 minutes. Next day Natchez called and said it had been a mistake, they were meant to be $425. I called the credit card company and asked if the transaction had gone thorugh, and it had. I called Natchez back and asked if it had been entered in thier log, and it had. It was tough luck for Natchez that day.

I don't feel as if my luck is used up just yet. Maybe thinned out a little, but not gone.

BD

[Meatco1]

That's good news for AL.

Hopefully, the idiots we have running the Calif. government won’t hear about this, or they will certainly jump on the bandwagon!!

Richard

[mooman76]

I've picked up all my lead and WWs for free. I've been collecting for awhile and even offered some cash a few times but was refused. The only lead I bought was some Linotype because I thought I needed it but have used very little. A few years ago I was offered 3 55gal drums of range lead. Back then the epa was just getting started and you would have to pay someone to take it off your hands.
I did pick up a G43 rifle at a garage sale for $50 though. He didn't know what it was at the time obviously and to be honest I didn't either then!

[unclebill]

I answered an add in "Uncle Henry's" (Maines statewide swap & shop rag) for a gentleman selling a Lyman 20 lb bottom pour pot for $80. I told him it was worth that to me and made the hour drive to go get it. He was an older guy who was moving down to Florida and knew a couple of the IDPA shooters I shot with in northern Maine. We put the pot in the back of the Subaru and then he started into the "You might as well take this too...and this.. and this..". A 1/2 hour later I had a Lyman 450, 1/2 dozen lyman molds, 4 ammo cans full of cast, lubed and sized .358 148 g, SWCs, 300 lb of lead ingots, 2 dozen sticks of various lube, a thermometer and about 50 lb of lino. The Subaru was really dragging tail so I passed on several cast iron dutch ovens and an anvil. He wouldn't take another nickle over the original $80 so I spent another hour helping him load his lawn equipment and tools on a trailer.

My brother bought my .270 WBY MK IV, new in the box, never had sights or a scope mounted, for $400 at an estate auction.

I saw an add in the Natchez catalog for DW 744's w/6" barrels on a close out for $289. I had my credit card out and completed the order in 5 minutes. Next day Natchez called and said it had been a mistake, they were meant to be $425. I called the credit card company and asked if the transaction had gone thorugh, and it had. I called Natchez back and asked if it had been entered in thier log, and it had. It was tough luck for Natchez that day.

I don't feel as if my luck is used up just yet. Maybe thinned out a little, but not gone.

BD

wow
and i thought i did good with a 550b 2 powder drops,dies and shell plates along with case gauges toolheads and stands for 17 calibers for $550 shipped.:(

[madcaster]

SpaceGlocker,
An EXCELLENT example on spreading the wealth!You COULD have sold all of what you did not keep,but you gave a good bit away.Good man!:drinks:

[azrednek]

My best score was a complete set of Herters brand reloading tools and components. Been so long ago I can't recall for certian what I paid but I think it was about $20-25. Included were 4 1/2 boxes of factory 300 H&H ammo and a few hundred pieces of 300 H&H and 270 Weahterby brass. I also got several hundred jacketed 270, 30 and 357 cal Herters brand bullets. The real tear jerker though was when I asked the widow at the yard sale if she wanted to sell the guns. She was worried about selling the guns believing she would have to register them in her name and carried them over to a Sheriff's sub-station and gave them away.

Friend of mine was in the pawnshop business for a short time. Some of the deals he got were incredible. He had some bad luck when he first opened up and had to turn some hot guns over to police and he was SOL as far as what he paid. With the thought in the back of his mind that he might be turning the gun over to the police he kept his offers low and scored some real bargains. Best I saw was him scoring a near mint Nazi marked High Power for $50. I was hoping the scraggly looking woman would turn him down as I was going to follow her into the parking lot and try and buy it. Unfortunately for me she took his offer.

[0802]

Great thread idea.

I answered an ad for shot, wads, hulls, and presses for $330. Turns out it was over 400 pounds of shot, two MEC 600 Jrs, a MEC Grabber, probably over 5000 12 and 20 gauge wads, two huge bags of hulls, a brick of Winchester 209 primers, an unopened can of Red Dot, a bunch of 44 cal round balls, 50 cal TC maxi balls, some misc muzzleloading gear and various other stuff I've forgotten. And a whole bunch of rat turds. Unfortunately, I deployed a week later and haven't seen it since. I expect you'll see some it for sale on here in april or so.

Five years ago, my wife's great uncle (who I had never met up to that point) gave me a practically brand new Colt Python that a little old lady had given him and NIB Colt 1911 that he purchased in the 1980s. And a roll of Craftsman combination wrenches. I just had to listen to his stories for 3 days, which I gladly did as he was a WWII Army machine gunner.

[WildmanJack]

Had a lady give me a 1908 German mauser pistol in .25 cal. in excellent condition. Ssome years back a real good buddy of mine bought a pair of matched colt revolvers at a pawn shop for $300.00. He had company one night and was showing the guns One of his guests asked if he could do some research on the guns. Well to mke a long story short. He found that the guns were a gift to Doc Holiday from the Colt Factory. They are now safe queens, and I can't blame him..
Jack

:Fire:

[mikenbarb]

About 3-4 weeks ago I answered an add for a bunch of old reloading equipment. I got there and the seller was about 90 years old and took me into his garage and pointed to a bunch of boxes in a corner. I looked only in two boxes at the time and almost fell over because in the two there was a Hollywood Universal press, Hollywood Model 1 #2 powder measure, 4 Ideal/Lyman hand tools and a electric Potter bottom pour.
After I got home I started to go thru box after box unwrapping mostly high end goodies that were stored in oiled soaked towels for years. Im now up to the following, Hollywood Universal turret press w/12 station turret, Hollywood powder measure, Potter lead furnace, 4 Ideal/Lyman hand tools, Potter reloading press, Hensley&Gibbs #11 mold, Hensley&Gibbs #20 mold, Ideal 308280, Ideal 311291, Belding & Mull powder measure, Pacific 940 press with 4 rams, primer catcher and priming system with tubes, 4 Pacific die sets, Approx 1500 live 22 Hornet rounds, approx 5000 bullets in various calibers and a crapload of other stuff thats too much to list. The best thing about this is that he bought most of it in the 40's and early 50's and its all like new and mint shape plus he had all the original paperwork, instructions and sales reciepts for almost everything he sold me.(Yes, Even the reciepts)
The grand total was..... $300.00 FOR IT ALL!! LOL, I done good.:-D And he was happy to sell it to me for that.
I went to the local meat market the following morning and bought him a big filet mignon and brought it over to him and thanked him again.

Another great deal I got was last year when I bought a Military Remington Model 11, 12 gauge thats all original in great shape with matching Navy markings and turns out that its a Navy Training model with the anchor and flaming balls and US stamped on it. Picked it up for 50 bucks!

[rmb721]

Probably my best deal was two years ago at Wal-Mart. A Ruger Mini-14 for $200 plus tax and the phone call.

I wasn't even thinking about one until I saw that.

[hiram]

I bought 3 firearms from someone for $300. He threw in an Ithaca Flues 1 1/2 sxs shotgun. Been doing research and the Flues is worth more than what I paid for the 3 firearms.

[Huntducks]

I have had a few over the years Md 21 Win for $300 a md 42 win W/rib for $110 from a pawn shop no less 3 Mason decoy at yard sale for $1ea, just 2 weeks ago at a estate sale 170lbs of shot 6-7.5 & 8's for $7.50 but my best was about two year ago 29 moulds 1-2-3-4-6 cav at least 1/2 with handels lyman-ideal saeco and 3 H&G some of the lyman 1 cav were brand new still wrapped all for $120 total.

[remy3424]

Maybe not the deals of the century, but here are a couple I remember....A S&W 411, 422 and a remington 1100 3" for $375 and the Smiths look new in the boxes(still haven't shot those pistols). At an estate auction a RCBS A2 press and Uniflow w/ the micro adj for $45 and a couple years ago an unopened box of 1000 Rem 25 gr. 17 cal hp bullets for $15. A good deal will makeup for a real bad day!!!

[Suo Gan]

I just bought over a thousand pounds of pewter for $250. Awhile back at an estate sale, I purchased an entire lot of things from a dead caster. A box of 60 molds, a swaging machine, 500 boxes of loaded ammunition, 150 pounds of powder, lead ingots, shot, about 300 boxes of new jacketed bullets, brass, reloading misc. All for $1200. But no guns :( The previous owner was a gun store owner, and custom ammunition maker in Phoenix. I figure that I got about $15,000 in stuff at that sale. Keep your eyes open, it is out there for cheap. Hit the garage sales too, I've found some unbeleivable deals there too.

[Crash_Corrigan]

I was working as a roadside tech and responded to a call for a flat tire. I founda spry 80 years old gent with a flat tire which I repaired and inflated for him. We got into a discussion on shooting and he dreagged out a 1920's Baker Double barrelled shotgun in 12 Gauge. It was a duplicate of the gun I learned to shoot on. My dad had the twin to this old double and I asked if he wanted to sell it.

He had another old gun he wanted to get rid of since his health prevented him for shooting any more and he insisted that I had to buy both guns. He dredged out a pristine 1929 winchester 94 in 30-30 in excellent condition and we agreed on a price of $100 for both guns. I left with two long guns.

The old Baker had a busted safety but was in good condition otherwise and the Winchester was beautiful in all respects. The wood was excellent and the blueing on the rifle was good except for a few blemishes on the receiver which I understand is normal for a gun of this age.

It is a shooter. I made up some rounds with a cast boolit of .310 dia which I sized down to .309 and low and behold if that old gun produced a group of less than 2 inches at 50 yds with a charge of 10 grains of Unique.

I fired the old shotgun and as I remebered it kicked like a mule but with those long 30" tubes produced a neat pattern at 40 yds with #4 buckshot. I really only wanted that old Baker for a wall hanger but I expect to keep it loaded on the wall to repell nasty Mormans and such who come to convert my heathen soul.

As for the old Winchester, we will grow older together and I expect to use it in some big bore silly wet contests in the near furture.

Last time I looked the Winchester may bring up to $800 and the Baker maybe a paltry $150 or so, however I do not expect to be parting with either in the near future.

[.45Cole]

4x32 weatherby special (made in germany) for $50 at an estate sale (passed on the 6x), m94 30wcf from wally world new in box-$132. I usually just run on my dad's luck, rem 511-$15 in Cheynne. Also my (the one I have used since a kid, but dads) hunting rifle i realized when old enough is a pre 64 mod 70-.264mag. (Brother uses a pre garcia sako .264)

[94Doug]

I was once at a auto garage (selling auto parts) and a guy that always hung around there asked if I wanted any of the guns his recently departed dad had. I didn't have much cash, and really wasn't interested. He rolled out a rag anyway, and there was a Ruger pistol, which I said I wasn't interested, he said "not even in the Smith?" also wrapped in cloth was a lil' 5 shot Smith 38 revolver in nice shape. He wanted $100 for it. I found the cash somewhere. I ended up shooting it for a month or so, and then ran into him again, same shop, he was wondering if I wanted to sell him "dads" gun back to him. Turns out it had some meaning afterall. He said I could make some money on it. I never had any firearms in my family, and couldn't imagine him getting rid of his own fathers stuff in the first place, so it went back where it belonged for that $100. It was mine for a while, at least.

[69daytona]

Best deal I got was in trade for putting a new radiator in a van. In trade for the work I got a D-Max 10mm serial #00001, also got a winchester 94 in 30-30 and a mossberg 12 guage and a S&W model 66. I sold the D-max for 3000 and the model 66 for 200. The winchester was never fired and still have it along with the shotgun.
Just got 200 lbs of WW just for the asking when I was getting new tires put on my sons car.
Do a search online to see what the D-max looks like, it was not Calif approved or I would have kept it.

[Idaho Sharpshooter]

my wife holds the title in our family. While she and her mother were yard sale shopping, she called and asked me what an RCBS A4 was, and would I pay $25 for it? I did.

Rich

[imashooter2]

An acquaintance at work stopped by one day. Says he knew I reloaded and would I be interested in some stuff his late father had? I said I'm always interested. What have you got and what do you want for it? He said he had a basement full of stuff and he wanted it gone. I said "What time is convenient for you?"

Complete set up. Rockchucker, powder, primers, bullets, trimmer, dies, micrometers, big boxes of gun gear to include Lyman aperture sights and scope rings, thousands of reloads. Way too much to list. Some stuff I still use today, some I gave to friends, some I traded, some I sold... Made well over $400 just on the cash sales and I have a bunch of small stuff left that I'm just too lazy to get together the for sale ad.

The guy refused all offers of payment. I couldn't let such generosity go completely unrewarded, so I bought a Do It mold and I cast him as many jig heads as he wants.

[targetshootr]

Free wheel weights. Can't beat em. Also, bought a 4" 28-2 with cokes for $150 off Gunsamerica several years ago .

[shooterg]

Got a Square Deal set up for .38/.357 for $75 last weekend - powder measure half full of 700X and primers in the tube ! The guy hadn't used it in over 10 years, so I'll probably dum the powder in the flower bed, but what the heck...

[georgeld]

Old shooting buddies health failed and he went to a N/Home. One day sitting here on my thumb wondering what to do that day, his wife called. "Mac's never coming home. there's some much gunpowder in the basement and the kids have said it might blow the house up. You and Mac shot and loaded together if you'll come and get it the boy will help load it. bring your truck and lot's of boxes!"

Shame of it is losing the friend who died several months later and funeral was the exact same time as Mom's so I couldn't go to it.

Gave away half dozen bags of wads, maybe 5000 or more 20/12ga hulls, many I'd taken him. About 200 boxes of reloaded 20ga, don't really have any idea now what all was there but, it filled a LW p/up box to the sides with shotgun reloading supplies. All those 50# drums of powder were stuffed with neatly stacked hulls, not powder and no shot.

But, I kept: about 12 jugs of various rifle, pistol powder, 250 boxes reloaded 12ga in those four box plastic holders. Must have been over 200 boxes of factory rifle bullets of many sizes, most I've swapped off for brass I wanted on ammobrasstrader. Still have the 270 bullets and some others that I use. 10 ammo cans full of rifle an pistol ammo. Three 5 gal buckets of brass: '06, 223, 38/357's. Uniflow, Lil Dandy+4 drums. About 35,000 primers, 15,000 .224" bullets which I've been loading up and will use eventually. Whole bunch of other things I can't think of now.

Full set of micrometers 0"--6", inside mic, calipers I'd been wanting to buy and couldn't afford for the lathe I had planned on getting and did this summer.
A set of guide pins for the crank type case trimmer I'll never use. These are up for trade, make an offer. There's a small metal box marked: "shotgun loader parts" I'll never use them and don't have much idea what they are either.

His presses the boys wanted to keep and guns were going to be split between them.

The fun part was: I boxed things up (ten hours of it!!) and the grandson carried it all up the stairs and loaded it into my trk until he was about to fall over exhausted. I'm sure there was in excess of 1500lbs all packed in there neatly. I can't gloat over getting this stuff because of the loss of a good friend to alz that just laid there for a couple yrs. But, I'm very thankful to the lady for thinking of me, and the boys for not looking inside those powder drums to see what was in them instead of powder they thought it was. At least I've been able to use a bunch of it, share a lot with some friends and made some very good trade's with most of what I could never have used.

[59stude]

I had a friend that was building a steel boat and had gotten a lot of linotype for the keel, and I had tried to swap it for normal lead to no luck.
One evening about 5.30 he phoned me and asked if I wanted te linotype for free, only catch was that it need to be away from the place before 10 o´clock in the evening.
Being about 45 min of driving I had to do it all in one catch. At that time all I had to drive with was an old Volvo 244, so I took it there and started loading it, taking out the rear seat and putting some board against the front seats and started loading it. With rolled down rear door windows iI got it full up to the edge of the windows , and then filled the boot totaly full. It still was more so I put it on the floor on front passenger side and a few boxes on the seat. Still had about 150 more kilos to load so I put it in front of me at the drivers side floor.
I was finish loading the car with 5 mins to spare and started to drive verry, verry slowly home. It took me about 6 hours to get the load home, and then started to unload, that took another 5 hours to do. You should have seen this lowrider, I had never seen a car so low to the ground with wheels on, and I had to scrap it a few weeks later when I found out it had cracked in the middle.
The load of linotype I got was all in letters from an old print shop, and later when I weighted it, it weighted about 8000 kilos. so no wonder the car nearly did break in half.

59stude

[primersp]

at local range a man who stop fire sport and so reloading let a corbin press ,2 core moulds
and 4 lead swagging dies unfortunly not at the good size for me
323 perhaps for 8/92 lebel pistol -356-427-452
nobody wants ,just take off and put in my car
a another time i get a smith 16-4 in 32 mag 3 moulds,carbide dies500 brass for 350 euro
perhaps 2 or 3 years than the ad were in differents clubs

[Hardcast416taylor]

A friend scored on a large box of goodies at an estate sale. He called me up to brag about all the ammo and such he was keeping. He offered to give me a Lyman reloading press that didn`t work, or else he couldn`t see how it would work. When he dropped off a box for me of other stuff he didn`t want I was amazed at what he had. The first item was a C-H swage a matic set up for 38 swc. The next item was Lyman alright, a 450 sizer set up for 9mm rn boolits. About 30 lbs of lead ingots I made out as ww alloy. Several K loose primers in a small box and several hundred loose J-word pistol slugs. As you can tell my friend doesn`t reload nor cast. He wouldn`t take a cent for the box. I think that he thought he was unloading a bunch of junk on me. Imagine his surprise about 2 weeks later he dropped by to see the press and luber set on a bench and workable. I loaded a few boxes of ammo for him as a sort of payment that he grabbed out of me hand, never has brought the empties back yet? Another sweet deal I came into in a sad way was a Win. made M-1 Garand. A good friend of mine went to Nam and paid the full price for his country. His dad about a year later was cleaning out his house to sell. He came over with a gun cased saying I should have it. It was a Winchester made M-1 Garand, he also gave me 3 50 cal. ammo cans of loaded ammo and clips. He said $50 was enough for it all as you really can`t put a price on friendship. I tried arguing about giving him more, he just turned and walked back to his car and drove away. :(

[Kuato]

Got me 2 beautiful Finn Mosin Nagant M91s for $70 a piece a couple years ago. Both rifles are in great shape & absolutely love LEE 309-200 GC boolits!

[Russell James]

Married the wife and her Dad gave me a 12 g Stevens shotgun 30 inch barrell and a sporterized lee enfield 303 plus a .22 winchester single shot rifle !
What a deal !
Still got the guns and same wife!
All work well.
Rj

[jnovotny]

just cleaned up my $10.00 batch of lead I bought off of the swap shop ended up with 342 1lb ingots not bad for what I thought was about 150 lbs

[GOPHER SLAYER]

I have been given too many good deals to list. I doubt If you would believe me anyway. When you live in Southern California and belong to as many gun glubs as I have for as long as I have you are bound to come across a great deal now an then. The last one netted me many hundreds of dollars and all I had to do was haul the stuff off. There are items waiting for me to come and pick them up but I just cain't seem to get around to going. One involves a lee progressive reloader and yet more powder. Another a Rem rolling block in 7mm for free. What is even stranger is the fact that I sold him the rifle many years ago for 125. Every time I think I will make the 200 mile round trip I ask myself ,do I want another rifle to worry about. He told me he would give me the gun over two years ago and I haven't gone yet. What makes it worse is the fact that I found a beautiful half round half octagon barrel out in my shop. It is in pristine condition and I am not sure how I aquired it. It is chamberd in 45/90 and threaded for said r&b and ready to screw in. If I did go get the rifle and install the barrel I would then have to buy sights ect,ect and on it goes. Buckshot wanted to buy the barrel but the last thing he needs is another rifle. I think it would be difficult for me to scavenge a complete rolling block now. I could always cast 7mm bullets and shoot it as is but I hope fate would spare me that chore, besides I can't shoot open sights well enough to compete with them. The thought of having yet another type of brass on my loading bench is too much to contemplate.I know what I have related sounds strange but I guarantee that when you reach my age you will feel the same way. We all do. Another point I should make is the fact that I now have more nice guns, both rifle and pistol than I can find time to shoot and I'm retired. I also have more reloading gear than I could ever use. As little Jimmy Dickens once said ,at his age he doesn't even buy green bananas.Our local range had it's yearly swap meet last Sat.and I missed it and a great opertunity to get rid of lots of stuff. Well enough of my drivel, besides my two fingers have gone numb.

[jhrosier]

The best deal that I got was a couple of years ago when I saw a couple of big boxes of electronic gear on the shop fork truck, headed for the dumpster.
It was a complete NC control, quite old but in near new condition, that had been upgraded on a machinining center.
"Wait just a darn minute while I pull my car around.", I said.
I listed it on my local shooters forum classifieds and got a reply from halfway across the country with an offer to buy. I cleared about $800, after shipping costs and bought a couple of nice guns.
I'm quite certain that the buyer is bragging on another forum somewhere, about getting the control for less than half what it was worth.:-D

Jack