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Offline GameHauler

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What Would You Do
« on: February 22, 2009, 05:13:43 AM »
What would YOU do with this assorted mess?
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Re: What Would You Do
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2009, 05:17:45 AM »
if you use them, ziplock baggies/containers. if not melt them down/trade them for something you can use.
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Re: What Would You Do
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2009, 05:19:38 AM »
Larger qualtities, I'd load and shoot. Smaller ones ment down and restock the larger ones.  ;D ;D ;D

 Or as its getting warmer soon, Ment them all down for sinkers and go fishing!!!  Hunting season is nine months away!!

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Re: What Would You Do
« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2009, 05:30:38 AM »
Looks like you have half the job done by sorting. Bag the bullets in zip tight baggies, reload when you can and melt down the rest and reuse :)
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Re: What Would You Do
« Reply #4 on: February 22, 2009, 08:13:01 AM »
If ya stack'em all up over some powder in a piece of brass you could shoot them. ;D
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Re: What Would You Do
« Reply #5 on: February 22, 2009, 08:30:02 AM »
Quote from: Badnews Bob on February 22, 2009, 08:13:01 AM
If ya stack'em all up over some powder in a piece of brass you could shoot them. ;D

 :D Bagged up the 30cal,357 and 45's
The rest are headed for the pot.
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Re: What Would You Do
« Reply #6 on: February 24, 2009, 10:58:39 AM »
From the looks of your bench you probably should bag them up and wait until you need them.
Unless you heat treated them you won't lose anything by storing them until needed.

Of course all that is predicated with you still having guns that will shot them. ;D

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Re: What Would You Do
« Reply #7 on: February 24, 2009, 01:25:55 PM »
I wouldn't melt. I'd load and shoot at some point
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Re: What Would You Do
« Reply #8 on: February 24, 2009, 03:56:16 PM »
I just read the post by Eskimo called, "Now I know I'm crazy". He got a good deal on some 222 ammo and bought it, then got a barrel for his Handi to shoot it.    So  obviously what you need to do is get the guns to shoot all this stuff, can't let it go to waste.
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Re: What Would You Do
« Reply #9 on: February 24, 2009, 04:13:02 PM »
You've done the work of casting and sorting. According to the pic, some are sized and lubed. If you remelt, that work is lost. If you trade, then you have to use new resources to make new bullets. That resource becomes lost.
BUT, you asked what I would do. I would load all that fit my guns, and those of my buddies. If what was left had a count of 20 or greater, I would list them in the classifieds or on an auction site. Less than 20 goes in the pot for reclaiming. I have a heavy clear plastic compartmented hobby box made for beads or buttons or such and I use that for my odds of ends of left-over bullets. Keeps them somewhat organized and sometimes I need just a few for whatever and my alloy doesn't change much over time, so my batches usually weigh very similar - not enough that would show in the groups I shoot! LOL

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