As the man said that is the result of 15 years work. I have been slowly building for 30 years to get where I am at. I actually stopped buying guns for a decade due to storage issues with only three safes. I recently started selling less desirable guns to put nicer ones up. As to primers, yes nice inventory but... like I said, I have been doing this twice as long. I can't understand anyone running out of our most important commodity as reloaders.
Agreed.
I'm not here to chest thump, unless an anti-gunner wanders by, saying "WHY DO YOU NEED THIS!!!! To them, I hope the sight of how well armed average citizens are will give you control freaks many, many sleepless nights when you contemplate the repercussions of banning small arms.
I
am proud of the 40+ hours of work it took to get it sorted out, and how it turned out in the end. Five years of putting things away "wherever" after range trips,
really took it's toll, since we moved out here. I had crap piled on top of crap piled on top of crap, and it got the point I couldn't FIND anything.
Case point; three weeks ago I thought I was running out of small pistol primers because I only had 2K left in the cabinet. I ended up finding 7,000 more when I cleaned, that I'd bought at some point, stuck on a shelf, got buried; I forgot that I bought them because they never hit the cabinet. I also thought I'd run COMPLETELY out of magnum large rifle primers, and found 2K of them. That's enough to shoot the barrel out of my sole magnum; should last me a good 5-10 years depending on how often I take it out.
Sadly I didn't find any 9mm bullets. Only have 300 left. So now I have 9700 more small pistol primers and tens of thousands of shell casings.
Now that it's organized, it's time to begin the "great culling."
I've been quietly giving out components to new loaders I see on the forum asking for help via PM"s. But as the spring weighs on I'll be taking stock and comparing what I need.
E.g. I have 300 9mm projectiles left. 10,000 primers. And at LEAST 70,000 casings. (!!) Obviously a smart move would be to shift some of those cases in to currency, to buy projectiles.
Likewise, my Springfield 1911 is growing on me. And I have exactly ONE magazine for it! I'd like to pick up spares, but I'm only "recycling" money on gun stuff at this point and not putting more in. Meanwhile I have an entire massive box filled with Glock 9mm and 40 cal magazines left over from my gun shop, and don't own either.
So, the "collection" as it were is not very well ordered - some due to closing the gun shop down and sitting on the inventory for 4 years, but also due to sheer disorganization and bad management.