Last edited by SSGOldfart; 03-26-2024 at 12:02 AM.
I started out with nothing and I still have most of it left.
Paralyzed Veterans of America
Looking for a Hensly &Gibbs #258 any thing from a two cavity to a 10cavityI found a new one from a member here
I sure miss the informal atmosphere of those old time gunshops. The one I grew up close to had more guns than any of the big stores such as Bass Pro or Cabela's AND all the long guns were on racks around all the outer store walls. You could pick up any gun you wanted and work the action, look through the scope, etc. I never saw powder being sold in sacks though or any of the surplus powder at all. I didn't start loading ammo until 1976 so apparently that was all gone by then but I've heard of it for years from older shooters. Makes sense considering that powder was WWII surplus!
My cousin had a gun shop just outside of Bangor, Me. Morrison's, he was also a gunsmith. Anyway, the Shop was in a converted barn with racks of guns like 50 of feet long. Must have been four of more racks that long behind the counter and very many of the nicer guns out in a showroom area in front of the counter. My dad bought me a Win MDL 94 30-30 there in the early 70's
Tim
Words are weapons sharper than knives - INXS
The pen is mightier than the sword - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The tongue is mightier than the blade - Euripides
My dad had lots of that stuff, we loaded it up for years and years. Can't remember where he got it..
Old man I hung around with in the late 1970s told me about buying 100 pound kegs of 4831 from Hodgdon back in the 1950s and having it delivered by train at the local depot. He would sell it for $1.00 / pound in paper bags and said he made enough to pay for all his shooting supplies.
Another story, but I was given a 3 pound keg of a flake powder by this older gentleman and the only information was that he remembered getting it with one of the 100 pound kegs of 4831. I called the Hodgdon factory hoping to get some kind of info on it, but was told that there wasn't anyone there at the time who could help me. She took my name and phone number and I figured that would be the end of it. About 6:00 that night while we were eating supper my phone rings and a voice said "This is Bruce Hodgdon and I understand you have a question about some old powder that I sold". Needless to say that after I stuttered and stammered for a few minutes describing the powder as best I could, he asked me if I or any of my friends shot a .38 special. Upon answering that of course we all did, he said to put 3.0 grains under 150 to 158 grain swc and shoot it up. We did and many thousands of rounds later it was all gone. Much simpler and younger in the late 1970s.
"I'm not often right but I've never been wrong."
Jimmy Buffett
"Scarlet Begonias"
SSG, I have hunted in Carter Co., many, many years ago. That was in the 50's though and I doubt if the places I hunted would be open to hunting now. East Tennessee vacant land is disappearing at an alarming rate. The long and wide valley I live in only had about 5 large farms in it when we built our house in it. Now the whole valley is built up to the point that there is only one section of land in the valley that has over 5 acres of land. AS I remember Carter County; back in the 50's they had some really good football teams over there. Take Care and God Bless, james
I remember buying W748 in a waxed cardboard container that the top folded over like how you would get a large milkshake in, back in the mid 80's. Was about $5 a pound then!
Plenty of wars going on and plenty of surplus powder, you can thank our leaders for none of it coming our way.
found this in Oct.2018 American rifleman -
never pick a fight with an old man - if he is too old to fight he will just kill you -
in this current crisis our government is not the solution , it is the problem ! -
ILLEGITIMI NON CARBORUNDUM
as they say in latin
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |