Check Those Stashed Boxes!

[SSL]

Earlier this year I had come across a bunch of forgotten brass and components for .223. Problem was I didn't have one anymore. Solved that problem by buying a Ruger American Predator.
Today, while bored and sorting brass between Remington and Lake City, I noticed a box stuck in the back corner of my closet behind all of my hanging soft gun cases. Digging it out was like finding a gold mine. In the box were 300 forgotten pieces of TZ (IMI) nickel plated brass, already trimmed, neck turned and primed! That box must have been there for nearly 20 years and I kept overlooking it.
IMI brass has always been good to me and I mourn for the days when it was plentiful and cheap. Very uniform and tough. All of my .44 Mag brass, though not nickeled, is IMI and never seems to wear out. The same goes for my .30-06 brass...all IMI. I know many don't like nickel-plating, but I have never had a problem with the flaking commonly mentioned, except on brass that requires crimping. I think the working of case mouths to crimp may destroy the integrity of the nickel/brass bond. I never see it on bottle-neck cases, even on my Remington 7BR cases that are probably 30 years old. Maybe because I always skim-turn all bottle-neck cases and usually end skimming the nickel off the necks in the process.

 

[EOD Rob]

Good score fine Sir! I'm going to start hiding things from myself too. Shouldn't be hard. I've had way too many bumps on the head over the years!! LOL

 

[ebb]

I have had good service from IMI brass also.

 

[perazziguy]

I'm still looking for a box of Hornady 52 HPBT I bought 4 or 5 years ago...
Jonathan Taylor

 

[JayBeeYou]

I'm still looking for a box of Hornady 52 HPBT I bought 4 or 5 years ago...
Jonathan Taylor

I think they eloped with some of my juggernauts.

 

[Ringostar]

Hidden surprises are always great to find. Like I posted a year ago. I was packing things to move, and found an 8# jug of of H4350 that I had completely forgotten about.

 

[DirtySteve]

This happens to me all the time.. I packed a way a Shooting Crony a year ago when I bought the Magnetospeed. I now have a job for it, and need to find it in the "Safe Place" where I put it. The good Lord only knows what I shall find when looking for it.

 

[Kracken McGraw]

Still looking for 38 Special brass that I know is here somewhere.

 

[gravelyctry]

On a slightly different purpose, after being told I couldn’t have any chocolate chip cookies because we were out of chocolate chips, about 5 years ago I started hiding bags of chocolate chips around the house. I figured I was being smart to eliminate that excuse.

I forgot where I hid them, and still didn’t get the cookies I wanted. Every now and then I stumble across one every once in a while. I did a kick butt job of hiding them.

 

[6.5 forever]

Last week I found a Cabela's sealable storage container stacked with other such containers under a table. As I was shuffling them around I felt movement in one. Inside was a 20 round MTM ammo container. There was 20 rounds of Berger hunting bullets in Lapua cases. Left in that box from a hunting trip years ago.,

 

[Hino895]

I have a friend that let his daughter move back with him.
Hes 69 years old, retired marine has a couple 1919s among other toys.
His daughter has decided to redecorate/repaint which is a good thing seeing as how it was just him for many years.
I don’t know how many ammo cans he has but it is numerous, like in mountain size numerous.
For the past 10 days he’s been sending me pictures of stuff he’s found from 20-30 years ago, IE I’ve found 600 feet of new cloth machine gun belt.
Things like that.
If there’s such a thing as a gun/ammunition/accessory Hoarder my friend Ruben would have his picture in Webster’s under the definition.

 

[Charlie-NY]

I've got my components fairly well organized in wall cabinets. For some reason, a few years ago, I stuffed two boxes of Fed 215M primers behind all the other neatly stacked primers. Totally forgot they were there and just found them the other day.
I think I'll sell them on GB and buy my wife a new car. :>)

 

[MislMan]

On a slightly different purpose, after being told I couldn’t have any chocolate chip cookies because we were out of chocolate chips, about 5 years ago I started hiding bags of chocolate chips around the house. I figured I was being smart to eliminate that excuse.

I forgot where I hid them, and still didn’t get the cookies I wanted. Every now and then I stumble across one every once in a while. I did a kick butt job of hiding them.

Unlike shooting related supplies, those chocolate chips were probably found by someone else who “repurposed“ them. Wives and children finding gun stuff just leave those hidden. LOL

 

[SShooterZ]

Had to dig out some steel shot so my buddy could take his son and nephew goose hunting. Moved a rather large box from the top of the ammo boxes and discovered a few hundred Nosler .204R brass. Totally forgot I even had it.