Ever find cartridges or empty cases of calibers you don't shoot?

25-40 'Krackley'

Found a 257 Weatherby mag case with my metal detector a couple days ago. Pretty rare for this area. Look up prices, pretty scary!

All the time when I picked a lot of range brass. I found a 38 Long Colt loading 38 Special last week.

General Geoff said:

Sure, this is expected when policing my brass at a range. But at home??

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Probably not exactly what you mean, but I tilled up a .38-55 Winchester case in the garden once. I'd like to own a .38-55 Winchester, but I never have - yet.

I found a couple of .45 GAP in a bag of .45 ACP last week.

Ever find cartridges or empty cases of calibers you don't shoot?

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Doesn't everyone???

DM

I don't think that I have ever found a loaded round that I did not know where it came from in a caliber I don't shoot. I do have a lot of brass in calibers I don't shoot. That is just the side effect of picking up brass to reload.

I have casings i have found in calibers i don't shoot. Never know when you can help another reloader out with some brass. 300 BO is one i been keeping separate for one of the guys at the gun club who loads them.

I keep a library of examples of as many cases. It’s nice to be able to physically compare them. At least until I bump into that shelf and they all fall like dominoes.

I keep samples of range brass in just about anything I pick up even if I don't reload or shoot it. Just an interesting part of the collection of odds and ends IMHO.

I once found a couple very old, unfired, unstruck .22 WSL cartridges left on the bench at the range. Kept em in my range bag for years just in case I found someone who could use 'em. Occasionally used them as lead pencils to mark targets......
One day I saw a couple young fellas trying to feed Long Rifles into an old Winchester repeater and they couldn't figure out why it wouldn't run. I handed them the two WSLs and suggested they try them. Sure enough, it fired- twice. Lol.

I came across a casing for a firearm I didn’t have. It spawned me going out and buying a firearm in that caliber. Funny but true story.

I've found lots of cartridges and cartridge cases - and occasionally firearms - in my residences.
Then again, I've moved a lot... .

I will find oddball stuff on the ground once in a while. They go into the cartridge collection box.

Stay safe.

I hate 40 S&W cases but I always seem to end up with a couple in my pickup bucket. A 9mm case perfectly wedges itself into a 40 S&W case along with a touch of walnut media. A 40 S&W case perfectly wedges itself into a .45 acp case along with a touch of walnut media. This is a pain in the butt when tumbling cases and a 40 S&W always seems to make it way through to jamb up my Dillon press.

I can't imaging ever owning a 40 S&W pistol but as far as the ballistics go and it's effectiveness as a self defence round I am impressed / like the round.

Lots. I have some old 44 rimfire BP cases that I picked up in a dump site on an abandoned Santa Fe RR grade in Northern AZ around 1973. I think it was the original route that went through Flagstaff. The reason I know it was a SF RR dump site is because we found porcelain china with the RR name. The road was completed in 1887 west of Williams AZ.

Never tried to ID those but probably 44 Henry.

Never found anything interesting at the range except some 300 Win short mags. That one didn't last very long.

I mentioned it in another thread long ago, but...

About 2 years ago I was metal detecting in my front yard and found and old 30-40 Krag case. I think it was actually stamped 30 USA, which is what they were still called in the 1920's when they were transitioning from a military caliber to a hunting round. My house was built in 1930 and was part of a rural subdivision built for coal miners. The houses are probably 50 to 100 ft apart on average. I'm sure most of them weren't there when that cartridge was fired. It was an interesting find. You can find old old bullets all the time and it can be a challenge to find out exactly what they were. But this old casing had all the information I needed right on it.

Pretty often.
Standouts are:
A 50AE out in the desert.
A couple of 38 long colt also out in the desert.
8 rounds of 7x57 in a rusty M1clip. Also out in the desert.
A half box of 280 remington.
2 25NAA casings I still have somewhere.
A bunch of 5.7 casings and about 10 live ones.
3 470-NE casings. Damn things are huge.

At some point one of the forum 32 advocates was at your house and that 32 acp fell out of their pocket; its the one they would put in the chamber when they rack it.

I found a small pile of .300 Blackout cases. I would have thought the shooter would save those.

A number of posters have mentioned keeping various cases to show others. I too have such a stash, called my "Oddball Cartridge Collection".

792mauser said:

Pretty often.
Standouts are:
A 50AE out in the desert.
A couple of 38 long colt also out in the desert.
8 rounds of 7x57 in a rusty M1clip. Also out in the desert.
A half box of 280 remington.
2 25NAA casings I still have somewhere.
A bunch of 5.7 casings and about 10 live ones.
3 470-NE casings. Damn things are huge.

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Another time metal detecting I found a live 5.56 training round on a public beach (Virginia Beach). All I could think is it fell from a chopper or a rappelling soldier's gear during an exercise. We actually did see the military flying up and down the beach on training missions while we were swimming.

I have 4 rds of .32 S&W in the "mix dump" box that rides in my glove box. No idea where they came from. Joe