Moving and Gun stuff

I was moving my gun stuff, ammo, .22LR (during the 2013 scare) across country CA to NC. Was driving a S2000 with summer tires. Hit a Snow storm the day of the Super Bowl in Texas. Right before I was calling it quite, I spun out and and when down an embankment. Tow guy was looking for my tow bar in the trunk. Pulling out my tool box loaded full of .22 LR. Tow guys says, “ You selling any of that”

funniest thing I heard!

I just recently moved. I think I had all of my stuff located in 2 months.

I've never moved my stuff from one residence to another, but still can't find things, cause some is here, and some is there, and some is in one of those tubs over there, or maybe it is in the garage with my other tools and stuff, no - I'm sure it was over there, but now it isn't.

It is all in the boxes marked "FRAGILE - Dishes, handle with care!"

I have not moved in 19 years… man I dread moving all the guns and ammo I have added to the pile during that time.

Stay safe.

I know it will not be easy and I don't have nearly as much stuff as some of you guys. I've been trying to sell guns and excess ammo and thereby reduce to scope of my collection. But, I seem to buy more to fill the void the sale has created. Help!

The reloading stuff I located right away because I labeled all the boxes. The ammo was all in GI cans so that was also simple to find. Some of my parts took me about 12 years to find because I just stuffed them in random boxes. Why I put them in crates of motorcycle parts still puzzles me.

I moved from PDSR Cal to the state of Nebraska in 2010 (retired). The moving company would not move any firearms or ammunition, so I rented a Penske truck to do that (and tow my car).
Finding all my guns and ammo was pretty easy. Deciding where to put it was the difficulty.
I will say I am still opening boxes and finding 'stuff' which I had forgotten and wonder why I paid to have it carted across the nation.

I need to sell off a bunch of assorted 'stuff' prior to death. I don't want to hand this mess to my offspring.

I knew where everything gun related was before, during and after the move. I packed, moved and unpacked everything gun related myself. One safe I packed full. I put it on hand trucks and out the door to the front porch. I pointed the trucks towards the steps when my wife asked "Don't you need help with that"? No, I Got It. The wheels of the trucks dropped to the first step. The trucks and safe fell backwards pulling me down on my stomach. The trucks then rolled down the steps into the yard pulling me head first until it decided to stop. I stood up, looked at my wife and said. "Told You I Didn't Need Any Help."

As someone who just went through the "moving thing" I stored all the ammunition and reloading "stuff" at my "camp". I'm just about certain some of it will probably never be found.

It is a nightmare because I'm a reloader. If it was just guns, it would be fine: move them in cases, move the safe, then move them back into the safe. Careful with the ammo; try to shoot most of it up before moving, maybe.

As reloaders though, we've got explosives and flammables to think about.

Then of course bullets & brass are quite dense. I got tricky and packed mine in a big Rubbermaid tote, because they're so sturdy, but I should've put the bullets in a smaller tote.

Then, the miscellaneous reloading tools and stuff I stupidly left in these little plastic drawer units and saran-wrapped them shut. They were stored in a damp basement out of necessity for a couple years and a lot of it rusted. (had to move into a tiny apartment after divorce) It's Lee stuff, so it's cheaper to replace than to pay for additional storage. Should've greased them up, I guess?

Now I'm in a house with a nicer basement I plan to stay in for at least 20 years, but my "reloading bench" is an old table I rescued from the trash. it works great, but no shelves for storage, so I'm still working out of those damned totes. I apparently need to rescue some kind of cabinet from the trash, too.

I've moved 3 times, but that was before I reloaded or even stored more than a few boxes of ammo for each rifle/handgun cartridge. Back then all my rimfire, rifle, and handgum ammo and cleaning supplies fit in one rubbermaid tub, then another tub for the shotgun shells flats I had.

But back in the fall of 2020 when I realized working from home was going to be more permanent than just a few months, I boxed up all my gun stuff from the corner of the basement so I could build a proper man cave/office. It was certainly a pain moving around the bins when I needed something for the 2 months it took me to build and finish the office, and afterwards when I thought I put everything away in the new man cave my wife was going through storage and asked me why I had saved a box of old magzines. She thought they were print magazines, but actually it was a box of PMAG's I'd misplaced.

The last time I moved, about 18 years ago, all of my guns went from my gun safe to a buddies gun safe before the move. After the move they all went to my gun safe in the new house.

The reloading stuff was all boxed together but it took a good year before I had it all setup and running again.

I had to move quite frequently for my job and found that nobody would move guns or ammo for me. So I always had to do it myself. Sometimes that involved multiple car trips over hundreds of miles. In some ways it was good as it forced me.to evaluate all my crap and keep only what I truly loved or needed.

Now I always look at my stuff like Deniro from the movie Heat - what can I grab and take with me in just a few seconds. Lol. I'm way past that in terms of stuff but I really try to have less. It's kind of backwards to romanticize only have a pistol or two and one rifle but there it is. Maybe some day.

Currently I don't have any moves for the foreseeable future, which means I'll likely accumulate a ton of stuff like we all do.

My last move was '03. Before that was '79.
I am still finding stuff I had forgotten about.
Most of the important, regular use reloading pieces were quickly located and bench set up. Parts, grips, holsters, ammo, bullets, primers; still pop up.

When I moved I lost a box that had all my small case prep tools, 4 bricks .22lr, unopened gun cleaning supplies and case lube, one set of dies, some new rifle cases, bullets for those cases and one pound of powder never opened. The box had mixed items because they didn’t fit into other boxes of reloading equipment, supplies or ammo.
I gave up looking for it after around three months, figured it got dumpstered accidentally and repurchased some of the case prep tools. Found it another few months later among boxes of detailing products and tools out in the garage. It was like Christmas in July going through the goodie’s in that box.

When I last moved, all guns went in my car. Not saying I didn't trust the movers, but I didn't trust the movers.

Ammo went in smaller boxes marked "books". One mover said "what do 'ya got lead in here?"

That was 7 years ago, still have some unopened boxes. I'm sure we have great need for what's in them. lol

You don’t need to move, I have one room devoted to reloading and one for cleaning and repairs. What ever I need is always in the other room
and not necessarily easy to find.

I have moved cross country so many times, solo & moving company.

here my advice: hire a moving company, will save you from divorces. Then, move your precious by yourself. Moving companies hire local labor and I had stuff stolen, including boxes of my wife's undies

When we moved into this house the previous guy had everything including his truck moved but they wouldn't take his ammo so he left it all. I found all kinds of 12ga, 9mm and 45acp! I always move the guns myself and have the ammo in boxes marked Books or something.

Bfh_auto said:

My parents moved so many times when I was a kid that I'm a professional. My mom is even better. So I just put her in charge
Thankfully my wife followed her lead.

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So you know what it like to have moving boxes from 3-4 moves ago and not sure what in those boxes….

tip… Goodwill, don’t open it, you didn’t need it, Goodwill, tax credit

Moving was easy. Boxes well marked. What amazed me was the number of things I found when packing that I forgot I had.