Finally re-organized, pleasantly surprised

[1911 guy]

So this year so far has been hectic. A whole combination of things added up to make any leisure time a precious commodity, including range time. Which is where this story originates.

The few range trips I've made this year have all been spur of the moment and less than organized. Grab a gun and some ammo, go to the range. When I get home, clean the gun and toss the ammo on the shelf. Which is how it came to be that I have a lot of half empty boxes of ammo on the shelves. On the bright side, they were half full.

So tonight when I got home from work I sat down to organize. The end result was 4,000 rounds of .22 LR, 200 rounds of 00 buck, 60 slugs, 800 rounds of M193, 150 rounds of Wolf .223, 140 reloads for my varmint .223, 1,100 rounds of .45 ACP, 410 rounds of .308 and a pile of empty cases to reload.

See? If I'd been organized like normal this year, I wouldn't have gotten this pleasant surprise. And now I have more space on my ammo shelves. No more half empty boxes.

Anybody else had a period of complete disorganization? It's been frustrating. I haven't had my motorcycle running this year, shooting has been erratic, made it to only two of my sons' ball games, etc.

 

[savanahsdad]

yep. I was running out of room for powder and primers , and was starting to stack boxes of bullets in places other than where I normally keep my bullets , so yesterday I got rid of a TV I never watch and put all my dies where the TV had been. so I could use the shelf that the dies were on to put my bullets on. and found a box of 500 44cal SWC , 3 bags of 100 9mm 115gr FMJ's, about 300 .452 RFN a can of IMR4320 and a pound of Bullseye , turns out I'm better stocked than I thought I was

 

[Ky Larry]

Last year I had a stroke, a bone infection leading to a leg amputation, quadruple coronary bypass surgery, cardiac arithmia, physical and occupational therapy, neuropathy, yada,yada,yada. I've learned to feed myself, dress,shave,etc. I have 100% disability and,at 60, I'm retired.

The past few months I've been cleaning out my shooting room and garage and I'm amazed at what I'm finding. I've found 8,000 sp primers, 6,000 lr primers, 1,000s of bullets of various sizes, gallon bags of primed brass, and 3,000 .22lrs. I have a 6.5x55 Swede CZ-550 and a .22-250 Marlin heavy barrel I have no memory of buying.

 

[AlexanderA]

If the antigunners had their way, you guys would be prime candidates to be required to get "arsenal licenses." (I shudder to think what my "arsenal tax" would be!) The upside would be that we would all finally be forced to take inventory.

 

[ron b]

Reorganizing has been a lifetime project of me, I never seem to get ahead.

 

[1911 guy]

Quote:
Last year I had a stroke, a bone infection leading to a leg amputation, quadruple coronary bypass surgery, cardiac arithmia, physical and occupational therapy, neuropathy, yada,yada,yada. I've learned to feed myself, dress,shave,etc. I have 100% disability and,at 60, I'm retired.

Well. That makes all the stuff I've had going on seem pretty lame. While I've been really busy, I have at least been healthy.

 

[TRX]

That's okay, Larry. After a 20-year reloading hiatus I cleaned up the mess. My 7.65x53 forming die has gone walkabout. Meanwhile, I found three .38 Special die sets, and I'm pretty sure I've never owned any dies in that caliber.

If you find my forming die, I'll return your .38 dies...

 

[Twiki357]

I found all sorts of stuff when I had to pack up for a move about 12 years ago. Over a 1,000 38/357 bullets I didn’t know I had. And the frustrating item was when I bought a 380 in 2004 and dies to reload for it. What I didn’t know was that a friend who passed away in the mid 1980s had just bought a set of 380 dies. Found them still wrapped in the factory paper a few months later.

 

[BSA1]

A couple of years ago we put our house up for sale after I lost my job and unemployment benefits ran out. The real estate agent told us to move all the clutter out of the house so all of reloading and gun stuff went to the storage unit.

After my company rehired me we took our house off the market and we moved everything back into the house.

Then I decided to got ahead and finish the mancave so everything is now scattered all over the basement waiting for me to paint the floor.

So after moving everything three times I am still finding forgotten about stuff.

 

[Kingcreek]

A friend of mine died unexpectedly a few months ago and left me as executor and a huge mess. Ammo and gun parts and reloading stuff everywhere. He knew where everything was but it wasn't organized. It took many many hours to sort and organize for auction. My wife said "don't you dare leave anybody a mess like that". I've been organizing my stuff ever since.

 

[22-rimfire]

I need to do some "re-organizing" myself. It is truly amazing how much stuff you accumulate. Ammunition is only part of what you might find and place where you can find it easily.

 

[wally]

Grab a gun and some ammo, go to the range. When I get home, clean the gun and toss the ammo on the shelf. Which is how it came to be that I have a lot of half empty boxes of ammo on the shelves.

You come back from the range with ammo?

All I generally have when I leave the range is what is in my CCW.

 

[theotherwaldo]

In the last year I lost my job, found another halfway across the state, lost that job, moved back, and found another job locally. (I start tomorrow.)

Most of my guns and gear moved with me - twice. I found all kinds of stuff that I had forgotten about.

Out of sight, out of mind, I guess.

 

[Blue Thunder]

Me, I am in transitional quarters after packing everything up for the next 8 months or so while the Retirement Villa is built along with a newer reloading room and storage facility. I have the stuff I cannot replace easily with me, and the stuff I can replace in my storage facility away from the temp facility. All the reloading stuff is packed away but I have about 2000 rounds of reloads to hold me over till next year in the summer time. The stuff I cannot replace is the 30,000 primers and 20 pounds of powder. The replaceable stuff is brass and boolits. There are also 5 bricks of 22LR to tide me over.

 

[76shuvlinoff]

Huge cancer scare with extensive surgery early this year, I am back on my feet with a great prognosis. I realized the breadth of the mess I could leave my loved ones to sort out due to years of a gun and Harley addiction. That is going to push me into a organization and documentation project this next long winter. Maybe even an inventory reduction.

 

[sauer1911]

I finally had to start clearing the garage for basically just space. Work on this project, set it aside. left over wood, set it here, start reloading, stuff everywhere. Need to clear a spot for a safe, THAT is the straw that broke the camels back.

Spent 2 days restacking and TRYING to throw stuff out. Actually filled the recycle and Trash only cans, I finally found the concrete floor!

I am the type that says, " I might use that one day" Now I look at it and think, "why am I keeping pieces of 1/2" plywood that are so small?"

Time for a nap

Usually happens every 2-3 years or so. Cleaning, not the nap thing.

be safe.

 

[JoelSteinbach]

Some day I will get the ambition to organize, I just too busy pondering my daily shooting, casting and hand loading sessions. I can not even guess about the amount of loaded ammo that I have on hand.

 

[armoredman]

Last year I had a stroke, a bone infection leading to a leg amputation, quadruple coronary bypass surgery, cardiac arithmia, physical and occupational therapy, neuropathy, yada,yada,yada. I've learned to feed myself, dress,shave,etc. I have 100% disability and,at 60, I'm retired.

Thank you for bringing me back to Earth, sir. My problems seem pretty petty compared, hope you have many more years of shooting left.
As it is, I've lost more than I've acquired, but I still have what I need.

 

[CB900F]

Fella's;

I'm in the middle of the mess now. A couple of years ago we'd decided to sell the house in town & move to the ranch. However, in order to make that idea come to fruition, a fairly large amount of prep work had to be done. To cut to the chase, I'm living in the ranch house and there's major construction & remodeling going on all about the place. I've got all my stuff out here, I think, but it's scattered from he!! to breakfast.

On the plus side, I've got my updates done & can now shoot on my private range. The ranch has been in the wife's family for 114 years & there's been shooting on the place for the entire time. I've just formalized the affair, but I and my attorney will argue that the situation has been grandfathered in for well over a hundred years should the government attempt to interfere.

The irony of the current state of affairs in .22 ammo-land is that I know I've got some, I just can't find it!

900F