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Ever find stuff you forgot you had, looking for something else? It makes me feel especially weird to find something I simply can't remember acquiring in the first place.
I've been going through some changes in perspective in recent years, and have decided to try to simplify my life somewhat. When I was younger I wanted to accumulate lots of what I liked, and was really into surplus stuff when it was cheap 20+ years ago. I've actually gotten rid of piles of surplus ammo in the last few years (good timing), but still have a lot of junk left. I've realized that if it's sat unused for a decade, what's the point in having it. My plan is to also get rid of a bunch of guns, but that seems to be so much harder. I've heard it said that sometimes your possessions can own you, rather than the other way around. Like Thoreau said, Simplify, Simplify, Simplify...
So, I was digging through boxes of junk. Really, some of it actual junk: old damaged or oddball slings and holster and whatnot, stuff that's still "good" but nobody would ever want or buy. Out it goes. I run across a bunch of surplus magazine pouches. OK, I remember the pile of G3 pouches full of H&K mags. I bought them because they were almost free. I don't have a G3/HK91 and most likely never will. I remember the L1A1 mags; good to know where they are, though in reality I never use more than the one because I rarely ever shoot that rifle. I barely remember the pouch full of AK74 EG bakelite mags, full of ammo. I had another that I'd found recently, and thought I had two. Those mags have been loaded that way for about 20 years.
What I don't remember at all is the four old GI mag pouches, each containing three USGI 30 round AR mags full of Malaysian surplus rounds. I remember having some of that ammo back in the '90s; it was great ammo. I don't remember having a bunch of mags full of it. I never was really into ARs, but I was more into them back then than I am now. I still have a couple but almost never shoot them. Funny how things change when you get older. I guess I'll give them to my son for fun range ammo.
I wonder what else I'm going to find as I continue to dig out.
I've been going through some changes in perspective in recent years, and have decided to try to simplify my life somewhat. When I was younger I wanted to accumulate lots of what I liked, and was really into surplus stuff when it was cheap 20+ years ago. I've actually gotten rid of piles of surplus ammo in the last few years (good timing), but still have a lot of junk left. I've realized that if it's sat unused for a decade, what's the point in having it. My plan is to also get rid of a bunch of guns, but that seems to be so much harder. I've heard it said that sometimes your possessions can own you, rather than the other way around. Like Thoreau said, Simplify, Simplify, Simplify...
So, I was digging through boxes of junk. Really, some of it actual junk: old damaged or oddball slings and holster and whatnot, stuff that's still "good" but nobody would ever want or buy. Out it goes. I run across a bunch of surplus magazine pouches. OK, I remember the pile of G3 pouches full of H&K mags. I bought them because they were almost free. I don't have a G3/HK91 and most likely never will. I remember the L1A1 mags; good to know where they are, though in reality I never use more than the one because I rarely ever shoot that rifle. I barely remember the pouch full of AK74 EG bakelite mags, full of ammo. I had another that I'd found recently, and thought I had two. Those mags have been loaded that way for about 20 years.
What I don't remember at all is the four old GI mag pouches, each containing three USGI 30 round AR mags full of Malaysian surplus rounds. I remember having some of that ammo back in the '90s; it was great ammo. I don't remember having a bunch of mags full of it. I never was really into ARs, but I was more into them back then than I am now. I still have a couple but almost never shoot them. Funny how things change when you get older. I guess I'll give them to my son for fun range ammo.
I wonder what else I'm going to find as I continue to dig out.