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March 4, 2013, 11:11 PM | #1 |
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Feel like I won the lottery!
I was hanging out with a friend this weekend, and mentioned that I was having a hard time finding 9mm ammo. She tells me "I don't shoot 9mm any more, but I may have some you can have".
She wasn't kidding - she goes to a closet and pulls out a gallon Ziploc that's nearly full of ammo and hands it to me! She asks "need any .45?", and hands me another gallon bag of .45 ACP ammo. When I got home and counted/sorted it, there were about 1100 rounds of 9mm - about 400 each of Speer GDHP 124gr and Federal Hydra-Shock 124gr, and ~300 assorted FMJ round-nose and flat-point. There were about 700 rounds of .45 ACP, mostly 230gr lead round-nose. The .45 was tarnished, but I tumbled it and it came out smooth (although still tarnished). For the forseeable future, my friends aren't going to need to bring any ammo when we go shooting, although it's going to feel positively decadent using hollow points to blast paper! |
March 4, 2013, 11:13 PM | #2 |
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What friends...?
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March 4, 2013, 11:17 PM | #3 |
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Hey, if you're anywhere near Norfolk, I'll take you shooting and send you home with some!
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March 4, 2013, 11:22 PM | #4 |
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It sounds like you had your big "O" and ready to go home. I hope you didn't have to sleep over. LOL
In a more serious note. I think you should show your graditude and take her out for a very nice dinner in appreciation. It would also be nice to hear she is a shooting friend. |
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Good for you, buddy...that was a great score, and the price was RIGHT. |
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March 4, 2013, 11:22 PM | #6 |
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You owe that lady dinner!
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March 5, 2013, 02:53 AM | #8 |
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.... Hollow points? 20rd/box $20+ A LOT OF MONEY RIGHT THERE.
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March 5, 2013, 03:13 AM | #9 |
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Ammo in ziplok bags sounds like somebody else's reloads. Unless I knew them very well, or knew it was repackaged factory ammo I'd pass. Handgun ammo is a pain to break down to components to reload.
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March 5, 2013, 06:32 AM | #10 |
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This is all factory ammo - that's just how she stored it.
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March 5, 2013, 07:53 AM | #11 |
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scott did she just get divorced?? Sounds like someone is paying for something gone wrong. Your a lucky man, or maybe a good man.
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Also, .45 ACP is a fairly low-pressure round, so even if there is a microscopic change in the powder granules, It's not as if I was starting off on the ragged edge of safety, pressure-wise. |
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"While we are aware that some hand-loaders, particularly pistol shooters, tumble loaded ammo to remove residual lube or just to make their ammo nice and shiny, this is NOT a sensible procedure. RCBS and most ammo-makers specifically warn against tumbling live ammo in a vibratory tumbler. Hodgdon’s official policy is: “Completed ammo should not be tumbled. The powder will degrade and increase in burn speed.” (From Mike Daly, Customer Satisfaction Manager, Hodgdon/IMR.)"
To each their own. |
March 5, 2013, 01:26 PM | #16 |
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Hey Scott. Im in Suffolk. Glad to hear about you finding some ammo to go shooting. Also nice to know that other people from tidewater participate here.
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im from hampton and im here. great forum by the way.
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March 5, 2013, 08:16 PM | #18 |
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I need to hang out with your friends, not one of my Norfolk friends has offered me free ammo Congrats on the score.
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March 5, 2013, 08:21 PM | #19 |
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Yeah, and I saw the Pope in a business suit
Just kidding....what a friend to have.
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Give me her number, I want to see if she shoots .357 mag. anymore.
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I won the reverse lottery (or something more clever) a few weeks ago. I had set down a box of ammo on the floor in a spare bedroom as I was in the process of cleaning out the closet. Well, the box of ammo -- which actually was a moving box with several hundred rounds of 9MM and .45ACP ammo -- sat on the bedroom floor for a few days. I noticed at one point that one of my wife's cats had peed on the floor in the room -- and also that box.
Any idea what cat pee does to bullet casings? The ammo was corroded something awful. A few hundred bucks down the drain. |
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