Random oddball bulk bullets

[gmerkt]

It's not unusual for me to buy bulk or factory seconds bullets. From places like Midway and others. Once in a while, I find some random, oddball bullet in with what's supposed to be in the box. Below are a couple of examples:



The upper bullet is a 143 gr. Hornady .264 ELD. I think that's 6.5mm metric. Nothing I can use. This was in with some 168 gr. .308 ELD's.

The lower bullet is a 170 gr. Speer .277 (.270), round nose soft point. This bullet hasn't been made for many years, I don't know it found its way into modern bulk inventory. Also nothing I can use. I don't remember specifically where this one came from, but it was in a box of .308's.

But this type of thing isn 't limited to bulk bullets. This summer, I opened a factory box of Speer 158 gr. .357 Gold Dot bullets, and found a weird .355 9mm bullet that isn't even in their catalog. Turned out to be something they use in the law enforcement product line.

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[Nosferatu]

Let me guess, you also have 59 storage units filled with NOS car parts to vehicles you've never owned that your kids are going to get a hundred phone calls about when the rent payments suddenly stop?

 

[gmerkt]

Let me guess, you also have 59 storage units filled with NOS car parts to vehicles you've never owned that your kids are going to get a hundred phone calls about when the rent payments suddenly stop?

No, I won't spend a nickel paying someone else for storage. That's dead horse money. Most of what private individuals pay to store is junk that should be discarded. If it's good enough to keep, it's good enough to keep somewhere you can see and appreciate it. Mostly, of course there are exceptions.

My pals John and Edward (now dead, like most of the people I've known in my life), they were another story. One example, they bought out Pacific Lincoln-Mercury obsolete parts inventory before that dealer closed down. They bought a 48 foot truck trailer and filled it what those parts. 95% were not applicable to their vehicles, which numbered somewhere around 100. There were many valuable Lincoln parts in there from the 1950's and early 60's. But not one piece would they sell. Because once in their grip, they couldn't bear to part with them. They gave me a new muffler for a 66 Comet that fit my 66 Fairlane.

When I buy bullets, it isn't with the idea of stockpiling. I usually load and fire them off within a relatively short time. Some languish around longer than others. The .35 bullets for the Whelen don't get used up nearly as fast as .308's and .224's.

 

[DLS]

What happened to post #2?

 

[P7M13]

What happened to post #2?

If you cannot see post #2 you ignore them or they ignore you.

I have ~150 pieces of odd-ball projectiles pulled from rounds purchased for the brass over all the years. I keep them in a fishing lure box of about 20 compartments with a small square card identifying the caliber and grain weight of each lot. None have more than 20 rounds, which is useless to find a load for, so I keep them as "last resort" bullets.
Edit to add, it's way more efficient than fifteen boxes of a few rounds each.

 

[orygun]

I've never run across a mismatched bullet in a box, but then I still have a lot of bullets in boxes that I've not opened.

No, I won't spend a nickel paying someone else for storage. That's dead horse money. Most of what private individuals pay to store is junk that should be discarded. If it's good enough to keep, it's good enough to keep somewhere you can see and appreciate it. Mostly, of course there are exceptions.

I've wondered about this many times. I've seen more than one profitable business get kicked out of their leased building because the property was sold to a developer that tore it down and built a storage facility. In our area I can remember at least four multi level storage buildings.There must be a HUGE amount of money spent to hold onto "stuff".
My SIL keeps a storage locker just to allow more room in his garage, when instead he could buy a good "garden shed" and put it in the backyard. I'll bet one years rent would pay for a nice shed.
I used one storage once as on a temporary basis. The rent raised once in the few months I had stuff there. It didn't take me long to find space for the stuff I wanted to keep and to decide what to get rid of. People that keep those lockers on long term would be far wiser to throw the crap away than to keep throwing thier money down the drain.

 

[DLS]

If you cannot see post #2 you ignore them or they ignore you.
...

That was it. I was ignoring two users. The interesting thing is I have never initiated this. I have neither followed or ignored a user, so how that happened is a mystery. I cancelled the "ignore" and can now see the post, thanks.

 

[DLS]

The only time I've ever paid for storage was a 6-month period where we moved 5 states away on very short notice. We leased a small apartment for six months to allow us to settle in and learn the new area prior to purchasing a house.

In this case there was basically an entire household of things that would be far more hassel and expense to sell and then turn around and replace.

Otherwise I've always held that if you can't hold on to something in an organized fashion you have too many "somethings".

Which brings me to my shed ... it's time for another purging now that summer and hunting is over!

 

[P7M13]

That was it. I was ignoring two users. The interesting thing is I have never initiated this. I have neither followed or ignored a user, so how that happened is a mystery. I cancelled the "ignore" and can now see the post, thanks.

That's good 'cuz Mr. Vampyr offers quality and funny info.

The only time I've ever paid for storage was a 6-month period where we moved 5 states away on very short notice. We leased a small apartment for six months to allow us to settle in and learn the new area prior to purchasing a house.

I rented storage to sell my house. It sold the 1st day. Moved into a place 3x the size. I purge every spring.
The bullets and reloading gear will likely never be sold, only given away.

 

[gmerkt]

I've wondered about this many times. I've seen more than one profitable business get kicked out of their leased building because the property was sold to a developer that tore it down and built a storage facility. In our area I can remember at least four multi level storage buildings.There must be a HUGE amount of money spent to hold onto "stuff".
My SIL keeps a storage locker just to allow more room in his garage, when instead he could buy a good "garden shed" and put it in the backyard. I'll bet one years rent would pay for a nice shed.
I used one storage once as on a temporary basis. The rent raised once in the few months I had stuff there. It didn't take me long to find space for the stuff I wanted to keep and to decide what to get rid of. People that keep those lockers on long term would be far wiser to throw the crap away than to keep throwing thier money down the drain.

I started to answer this, but by the time I got done it was a separate essay and major thread hi-jacking. See:

Renting storage facilities

There must be good money in self storage facilities, because over the decades that I've lived around here many new ones have sprung up. I don't have any numbers to support this view, but firms wouldn't build them if they weren't profitable. Bigger and fancier they tend to be. "Self" storage...

www.northwestfirearms.com

 

[joken]

I've never run across a mismatched bullet in a box, but then I still have a lot of bullets in boxes that I've not opened.


I've wondered about this many times. I've seen more than one profitable business get kicked out of their leased building because the property was sold to a developer that tore it down and built a storage facility. In our area I can remember at least four multi level storage buildings.There must be a HUGE amount of money spent to hold onto "stuff".
My SIL keeps a storage locker just to allow more room in his garage, when instead he could buy a good "garden shed" and put it in the backyard. I'll bet one years rent would pay for a nice shed.
I used one storage once as on a temporary basis. The rent raised once in the few months I had stuff there. It didn't take me long to find space for the stuff I wanted to keep and to decide what to get rid of. People that keep those lockers on long term would be far wiser to throw the crap away than to keep throwing thier money down the drain.

We had a tenant who was a poor old maid who struggled to pay the rent every month but somehow managed to maintain two storage units full of junk.