No theme ran through the small collection auctioned off in a little Iowa town last night. Just an assortment owned by a fellow who, in a casual way, liked guns. This is what the crowd decided weapons are worth:
--Mossberg 16 ga. bolt action, okay condition .... $110
--Carcano 38 (7.35 cal.) heavily bubbaed .... $110
--Spanish copy of Browning "vest pocket" .25ACP rough, no mag. .... $90
--Rossi .38 Spc. revolver (Pythonish) as NIB -- $200
--First series Colt Match Target .22 (1940 mfg.) VG-Exc but no mag .... $530 (!)*
--Star Elbar, SS Colt Commander copy, VG .... $375
--Spectra HC 9mm semi-auto, as NIB with several hi-cap mags ... $725**
--Winchester 101ish Pigeon Grade XTR (12 ga OU) in presentation case .... $725
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*Only a fool would have left without owning her at that price.
**An assaultish looking pistoloid which I've seen, if ever, only fired sideways in movin' picture shows about ninjas still subject to acne attacks
May 21, 2013
Officer Friendly Gets Your Gun
Clive's Finest found out you don't have to pay even a pittance at gun turn-ins. . A few zippitydoodahs get fuzzy just giving their weapons to the cops. For the children, I would guess.
This one netted 51 "weapons" if you count the BB guns and broken pellet rifles along with assemblies of rusted parts which weren't worth bringing home when new.
However, I imagine gleam in some acquisitive cops' eyes.
After determining if they were stolen, police will send the guns to the state crime lab for testing. Those weapons that are not found to be linked to a crime will be destroyed.
Uh huh. "Chief, I'll just take this here Ruger home and hang it up with the other guns I'm planning to destroy."
The bunk-junk photos reveal a few that we'd all be pleased to own and possibly a classic or two. Give me some slack for working with lower resolution images, but I notice:
A possible Black Hawk with McGiverned trigger guard, splotchy but savable ... A decent Ruger Standard ... A probable Hi-Standard Sentinel ... another HI-Standard-like semi on the order of the HD ... and something that looks at least a little like the Savage experiment with pocket autos.
But never mind. Clive is a safer burb these days. The Only One's press release says so.
This one netted 51 "weapons" if you count the BB guns and broken pellet rifles along with assemblies of rusted parts which weren't worth bringing home when new.
However, I imagine gleam in some acquisitive cops' eyes.
After determining if they were stolen, police will send the guns to the state crime lab for testing. Those weapons that are not found to be linked to a crime will be destroyed.
Uh huh. "Chief, I'll just take this here Ruger home and hang it up with the other guns I'm planning to destroy."
The bunk-junk photos reveal a few that we'd all be pleased to own and possibly a classic or two. Give me some slack for working with lower resolution images, but I notice:
A possible Black Hawk with McGiverned trigger guard, splotchy but savable ... A decent Ruger Standard ... A probable Hi-Standard Sentinel ... another HI-Standard-like semi on the order of the HD ... and something that looks at least a little like the Savage experiment with pocket autos.
But never mind. Clive is a safer burb these days. The Only One's press release says so.
May 19, 2013
Reloading .30-06 military brass
For reasons I hinted at last evening, I've developed an even stronger hunger for .30-06, and a rainy Sunday is devoted to loading some of the case stash, mostly military.
Grrrrrr.
The primer pocket crimp we all curse is only part of the problem. Some of the pockets are just too tight to take a fresh one.
I de-crimp everything with a countersink chucked in a drill, and for some that quick operation is all it takes. My Autoprime loves 1950s cases from Lake City, particularly LC 54.
It hates everything from Denver, especially D 42, and I just toss those.
Winchester and Frankford head stamps are between those extremes, and after crushing too many primers I've decided to set them aside until I get around to creating either a power reamer or a press-mountable swage.
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At the command of the TMR Legal Review Section, I remind newbies that any time you remove brass from a case you weaken it, maybe significantly, maybe not. I reserve anything I've cut into for conservative loads.
Grrrrrr.
The primer pocket crimp we all curse is only part of the problem. Some of the pockets are just too tight to take a fresh one.
I de-crimp everything with a countersink chucked in a drill, and for some that quick operation is all it takes. My Autoprime loves 1950s cases from Lake City, particularly LC 54.
It hates everything from Denver, especially D 42, and I just toss those.
Winchester and Frankford head stamps are between those extremes, and after crushing too many primers I've decided to set them aside until I get around to creating either a power reamer or a press-mountable swage.
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At the command of the TMR Legal Review Section, I remind newbies that any time you remove brass from a case you weaken it, maybe significantly, maybe not. I reserve anything I've cut into for conservative loads.
Otherwise at the gun show:
This was a middlin'-size loophole, somewhere around a couple hundred tables. At the usual busiest time, mid-day Saturday, traffic was brisk but not jammed to the extent we've been seeing since November. You could get to the tables and coon finger the stuff. Observations:
--I've rarely seen so much U.S. military webbing and other field gear from the WW2/Korea era. The market hasn't decided on values. For instance, similar .45 magazine pouches carried askings from $10 to $25. One entrenching tool was offered at $15, a near twin at $50. And so forth.
--Everyday M1 Carbines seem to have settled to an arguing range centered on $800. (I saw only Inlands.)
--Plenty of 5.56x45 (.223 McNamara Stalemate) was on the tables at $.80-$-1 per round. Heavier popular rifle calibers were at $1 and higher.
--Components continued scarce and expensive. I saw no powder. Primers were tagged at $5 and $6 per hundred. I did see what I considered a bargain by recent standards, .223MS brass polished, sized, and primed at 20 cents.
--Everyone wanted .22LR. Only a little offered, but I saw nothing sell at the prevailing asks of $60 to $90.
--The dealers I know well enough to chat with reported gun sales slow to non-existent.
--I've rarely seen so much U.S. military webbing and other field gear from the WW2/Korea era. The market hasn't decided on values. For instance, similar .45 magazine pouches carried askings from $10 to $25. One entrenching tool was offered at $15, a near twin at $50. And so forth.
--Everyday M1 Carbines seem to have settled to an arguing range centered on $800. (I saw only Inlands.)
--Plenty of 5.56x45 (.223 McNamara Stalemate) was on the tables at $.80-$-1 per round. Heavier popular rifle calibers were at $1 and higher.
--Components continued scarce and expensive. I saw no powder. Primers were tagged at $5 and $6 per hundred. I did see what I considered a bargain by recent standards, .223MS brass polished, sized, and primed at 20 cents.
--Everyone wanted .22LR. Only a little offered, but I saw nothing sell at the prevailing asks of $60 to $90.
--The dealers I know well enough to chat with reported gun sales slow to non-existent.
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