Whilst rooting around in a corner of my basement lair ...

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... I came upon a heavily-taped & obviously-shipped USPS Large Flat Rate Box that contained a big ol'sack of clean, decapped 5.56x45 cases. Hmmm. No address label, but a date on a USPS routing label; 01/12/17.

Checked my email archives ...

2500 rounds of processed cases. Decapped, resized, cleaned for $194.25/delivered or, 7.78¢/ea. :what:

Ahhhh, Serendipity! Life is Good. :D
 
An interesting thing ... prior to digging deep enough to encounter that box'o'5.56 cases, I stumbled upon 3 different 500pc sacks (1 brass, 2 nickel) of fired .38spl cases of like vintage (also pre-Panic pricing) from 2 different vendors.

I decapped those yesterday and wet-tumbled them today. They are currently drying, spread among a half dozen corrugated cardboard flats in front of the basement air-circulation fan. BLING! :D
 
NIGHTLORD40K said:
I once found a Ruger Mk2 in my sock drawer I had forgotten about. It must've been there for at least a couple years......
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Speaking of sock drawers, my brother's wife was cleaning her son's sock drawer out and found a Series 70 Colt Gold Cup .45!.............It was MINE! That's when we found out my Brother's highschooler had a drug problem and stole the pistol to "protect" himself from the local drug pusher. Three things happened.....order of importance.....1. the kid cleaned up, 2. I bought a gun safe, 3. Got my Gold Cup back that I didn't even know was missing from the top of my closet, supposedly hidden. That was a long, long time ago. Thankful nothing bad happened.....learned an important lesson early on....so did the kid.
 
lordpaxman said:
Any time there’s more than one of anything….
Her: How many guns do you have and do you know where they are?
Me: How many earrings do you have and do you know where they are?
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Out of curiosity I counted my wifes shoes. 52 plastic boxes each labeled, with one pair of shoes stacked in the bottom of her closet. Thankfully I've not needed this ammunition for "another gun?" comments...

Sometime an old, forgetful memory can be fun. I found 2 boxs of Hornady XTPs, 9mm, under a rag in the bullet/junk cabinet the other day when looking for my Pacific powder measure bushings...
 
GBExpat said:
... I came upon a heavily-taped & obviously-shipped USPS Large Flat Rate Box that contained a big ol'sack of clean, decapped 5.56x45 cases. Hmmm. No address label, but a date on a USPS routing label; 01/12/17.

Checked my email archives ...

2500 rounds of processed cases. Decapped, resized, cleaned for $194.25/delivered or, 7.78¢/ea. :what:

Ahhhh, Serendipity! Life is Good. :D
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Ain't it fun to find stuff that you forgot about?

When I retired in 2015 I slowly started cleaning and organizing. My sock and underwear drawers, my closet, my shop. even my truck toolbox. I found several 5 gallon buckets of wheel weights and brass buried under other "stuff" in my shop. Last winter I found a 50 cal ammo can full of 30-06 brass, another full of 38 special brass and another with an assortment of pins and hitch parts for my tractor. The 30-06 brass was all matching headstamp, all was resized and it was carefully stacked in neat rows, completely full. The 38 brass was all matching headstamp.

But I have just about gone through all of my junk.
 
mdi said:
Out of curiosity I counted my wifes shoes.
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That was your first mistake...... I wouldn't dare......that would only cost me. Besides, guns are way more expensive..... Now then, counting her sewing machines, including a quilting one and a serger........those make my guns and reloading equipment seem cheap......but no, that's not worth it either....I have to say....I wouldn't trade her for a thousand guns.....she's still the best thing that ever happened to me. And no, none of my guns are pointing at my head.:)
 
GW Staar said:
That was your first mistake...... I wouldn't dare......that would only cost me. Besides, guns are way more expensive..... Now then, counting her sewing machines, including a quilting one and a serger........those make my guns and reloading equipment seem cheap......but no, that's not worth it either....I have to say....I wouldn't trade her for a thousand guns.....she's still the best thing that ever happened to me. And no, none of my guns are pointing at my head.:)
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Let your wife know my wife has a couple of extra Singer 301’s, a 202, several 400’s and two Rocketeers. She trades but prefers Colt D-frames, especially .38Spl, and .45ACP Officer sized semiautos.
She also has a couple of Featherweights but won’t say if she’s ready to let go of one.
 
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