Happy New Years to all,
I am executor to an estate of an older gentleman I knew. I had only know him in his later years. Much of that was spend with his illness and he wasn't the reloader or shooter he once have been. In fact he told me he hadn't reloaded in over 15 years. He didn’t have children but had guns and loved to swap to a different caliber and try something new. Firearms have been liquidated or are on consignment. Started cleaning our the reloading room. I have found at least 40 different calibers with about 5,000-6,000 reloads. Most have have the load sticker (caliber, COAL, powder, grains of powder, and bullet) written on a random scrap of paper - in zip lock bags inside a coffee can or something similar. He was raised in the depression and recycled everything. Everything from a 22 Rem Jet, 22 Hornet, a 217 bee to the 7mm/300/338 Win Mag series as well as some larger bore (444 Marlin, 45-70, and 44-40). Pistol rounds included. I only have a 6 mm and 30 caliber collect pullers. I can't even find shell holders for must of this stuff. He was a professional mechanic. He wasn't a precision shooter and seemed to follow load tables for the few I have compared. He was caught up in the moly crazy of the 80-90s because it is on 80% of the bullets. Also +100 lbs of powder. 100% opened cans. He had to have brought some stuff in 50 lb kegs and then transferred it to small 8-10 lbs containers - like an oatmeal cereal cylinder with a paper label with IMR 4064 marked out and IMR 4895 written above it.
I don’t feel right about selling or even giving it away to be shot. However it is going to take hundreds of hours to find all the collets and shell holders, and manually pull each bullet.
Any ideas on how to properly dispose of this much loaded ammo?
Thanks, Tim
I am executor to an estate of an older gentleman I knew. I had only know him in his later years. Much of that was spend with his illness and he wasn't the reloader or shooter he once have been. In fact he told me he hadn't reloaded in over 15 years. He didn’t have children but had guns and loved to swap to a different caliber and try something new. Firearms have been liquidated or are on consignment. Started cleaning our the reloading room. I have found at least 40 different calibers with about 5,000-6,000 reloads. Most have have the load sticker (caliber, COAL, powder, grains of powder, and bullet) written on a random scrap of paper - in zip lock bags inside a coffee can or something similar. He was raised in the depression and recycled everything. Everything from a 22 Rem Jet, 22 Hornet, a 217 bee to the 7mm/300/338 Win Mag series as well as some larger bore (444 Marlin, 45-70, and 44-40). Pistol rounds included. I only have a 6 mm and 30 caliber collect pullers. I can't even find shell holders for must of this stuff. He was a professional mechanic. He wasn't a precision shooter and seemed to follow load tables for the few I have compared. He was caught up in the moly crazy of the 80-90s because it is on 80% of the bullets. Also +100 lbs of powder. 100% opened cans. He had to have brought some stuff in 50 lb kegs and then transferred it to small 8-10 lbs containers - like an oatmeal cereal cylinder with a paper label with IMR 4064 marked out and IMR 4895 written above it.
I don’t feel right about selling or even giving it away to be shot. However it is going to take hundreds of hours to find all the collets and shell holders, and manually pull each bullet.
Any ideas on how to properly dispose of this much loaded ammo?
Thanks, Tim
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