As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
I must admit at the moment I am dizzy with euphoric delight. I doubt that Anne has ever come across in the junk yard the treasure that I got from JYG in 25 pounds of brass. When I say "brass" I do not mean brass fixtures, but brass cartridge casings.
My brass is not pretty like the above. JYG said he had them in the bathtub washing them off. I did not ask if he was in the tub with them to Green save water, but they still are filthy as all brass is, maybe not this filth, but JYG did say he dug them out of the dirt.
There were live rounds in the mix. I actually found 3, 30.30 Winchester rounds, hollow points which I did not know they made. Probably some 100 grain "high velocity" round to sucker people into thinking their old deer gun would work long range on predators.
There were lots of strange rounds as some I think we blanks, some were still live with primers in them. I saved all the ones out that were bent with live primers in them and am sorting through them a second time, but I am just dizzy with delight, as I have in archaeological terms seeing brass I had only read about.
I actually have laid my hands on a 218 Bee. That is the round which was produced for lever action rifles with tube magazines to get them to try and catch up with Mr. Savage's marvel of the 300 Savage, which he necked down to 25 caliber for the 250 Savage that sent bullets out at 3000 feet per second back in the horse and buggy days.
I actually have a number of early predator brass, in quite a few 22 Hornet which was pretty much the standard, have a few 220 Swift and I smiled as the Savage brass was prevelent in there are a number of 22.250 Savage rounds, which is the 300 necked down to 22 caliber, a round which is still one of the finest for long range predator shooting. That 300 casing was just Euclidena pretty. It was not until the US military cut off the 30.06 casing to the chubby 308 for NATO people killers that a 30 caliber round approached what Mr. Savage had invented a generation earlier.
There are a few 300 Winchester Mag, a 300 Weatherby Mag, all belted at the bottom, a 375 Winchester when they tried to make the lever action 30.30 round modern, on the heels of the 444 Marlin which was just the 44 mag bullet shoved into some Marlin straight wall. There was also some odd looking 30 Remington casing, that I thought was a 30.30 until I compared them. The 30 Remington is longer. Probably the twin of the 35 Remington that Marlin produced for their lever guns and Remington had a pump rifle with a unique magazine that had the bullets at an angle so the bullet points would not detonate the primer in the cartridge ahead.
There are so far a few 9 mm Lugers, I think a 25 and one 375 Mag.
Some I do not know as they are military rounds from Lake City Arsenal, but someone appears to have necked them down to 22 Caliber for a high velocity wildcat.
I even have some 270 Winchester brass which I would appreciate more if my asshole relatives either have Beloved Uncles gun or pawned the thing off and will not tell me a straight answer because they are all assholes who are guilty of looting dead Uncles things.
Anyway, there are 223 which I can use and 30.06. Just need the money to get the tumbler and polish it all up to looking like new, and then the 500 bucks to start reloading on the cheap. Brass will be gold in the future ahead as the reloading is going to stop like most other things.
Here am I, just 1/4 of the way through this interesting puzzle of delights The thought has come to mind that if I price brass to sell online, maybe I could get rid of the stuff I would not use that is in bulk. I have no 308 and I do not care to own one. Is different for the 22 Hornet as I would only get one by God's Grace, otherwise they should hit the road to, which could fund a reloading set.
I just checked the wokesters at Ebay and no brass is sold there, so that ends that vision of self funding. Will have to look at other venues, but I do not have the time.
For now, I have my treasures. I have touched things I have only read about. It is lovely to see the shapes of cartridges in how different and diverse they are. I did not expect the 218 Bee to be so unique.
Some of the stuff though makes me frown like the 17 Remington. The neighbor has some 17 hot rod and the coyotes spin around and run away and he can not find them. Yes high speed, long distance is ok, but there is a point in all of this in what good are these modern things which are a gimmick like most things are, and they do not get the job done.
I am sure I will be disappointed from this point on, as what kind of discoveries can rival those that I already have? Not like I am going to find a 348 Winchester or a 358. Not like I am going to find a 22 High Power. Yet there is always hope, as the pleasing part is the 223 and 30.06 casings which I hope to use in light loads, to save the brass, as some of this brass is split and blown to hell by those who thought, they had to shoot the moon and stars down, while burning out their barrels.
What a wonderful time I am having.
No child has had as much delight in every little brass being a present of discovery.
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