The best reloading find I know of was a older gentleman who had a for sale table next to mine a few years ago. He stopped at a garage sale, he noticed a dillion press handle sticking out of a good sized plastic tote. He asked the lady how much for the reloading press in the tote under the fold up plastic table.
She said $50, so he grabbed it and it was a progressive press. He paid her and started to walk away and hee said to take all three of them totesn all that stuff goes with it.
He asked about guns and she sold them all earlier. Her husband died and she couldn't stand the gun stuff.
When he grabbed the last tote she said to give her his number and she will call him when she packages up the rest of the stuff up in the room.
My oldest son went to a yard sale and there was one rifle left, a Sako with a nice scope on it. He commented it was a nice rifle but didn't have no where enough for it.
She asked how much he had. He looked and had $250 in his wallet. She said she would sell it for the $250, it was the last gun to sell.
He paid for it and turned to walk back to his truck and she said to go ahead and take the oak gun cabinet no sence having that around with no guns left. They had a $250 price tag on the cabinet.
The best deal I ever got was on a old Remington nylon 10. A 22lr single shot at a pawn shop. They wanted $999.99 for it. It sat there for years at that price. I bought it for $350 cash no sales tax.
I took it to the farm and shot a pigeon with it to make sure it would shoot.
I listed it on Rimfire Central gun forum.for $750 and sold it that nigjt.
Another time a I bought two single shot 12 gauge shotguns for $35, I kept the Iver Johnson and sold the other one for $30. I used that shotgun exclusivly that fall for small game and deer hunting. I shot a bunch of squirres, rabbits, grouse a couple of pheasants and a couple of deer.
We came out of the woods one afternoon and there was a woodchuck out in the field across the road, it was eighty-five yards out in the field. I had one #00 buckshot shell and loaded up the old Iver Johnson. My hunting buddy said I would never hit it.
That woodchuck took one pellet right threw the center of it's chest.
I still have that old shotgun and bought several more of them. A 410, a 28 gauge, and a 20 gauge. I'd like to buy a 16 gauge to complete that collection
