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- Wed Mar 13, 2024 4:26 pm
- Forum: Ammunition, reloading, shooting, etc
- Topic: Factory loaded ammunition
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6631
Re: Factory loaded ammunition
I certainly led a sheltered life in an Illinois farm town in the 1950s. I don't remember ever seeing anything like that.
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 6:35 pm
- Forum: Ammunition, reloading, shooting, etc
- Topic: Factory loaded ammunition
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6631
Re: Factory loaded ammunition
During the "Insurrection" in the Philippines, it was found that some Filipino combatants 'reloaded' the spent primers, in .43 Spanish brass. They removed the primer cup and filled it with shaved match-head material. I don't know if they bothered removing the 'dent' before filling and repl...
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 6:26 pm
- Forum: Ammunition, reloading, shooting, etc
- Topic: Factory loaded ammunition
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6631
Re: Factory loaded ammunition
Culpepper, how much did you pay for a box back in 2005? That would be a good example of a "utilitarian commodity" holding a steady value while our "money" aka "exchange certificates" is continuously devalued.
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 9:58 pm
- Forum: Ammunition, reloading, shooting, etc
- Topic: Krag Ammo by the crate
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2889
Re: Krag Ammo by the crate
Given today's prices, if that was new ammunition, all in small cardboard or plastic boxes inside a big cardboard box, it would go for something like $2,000 or $2,500. If those are 50 of the really old lift-top pasteboard boxes full of FMJ Krag loads, presumably all unopened. Plus a neat Winchester p...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 8:50 pm
- Forum: European Krags
- Topic: The Krag in South Africa.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5899
Re: The Krag in South Africa.
The Boer purchasing agents in Europe had a lot of hard currency (gold coins) at a time when other currencies were less desirable. Steyr (and Mauser) sold the agents (who apparently didn't know much about rifles) almost anything in the odd corner of their warehouses. The purchase of 5,000 Guedes sing...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 1:45 am
- Forum: Chit-Chat
- Topic: The Two Greatest Presidents In My Life Time
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1635
Re: The Two Greatest Presidents In My Life Time
Mr. Cleveland was a bit before my time. IIRC, the 2nd time around, he got to preside over a pretty bad depression. Mr. Hosmer and I live in the Democratic Peoples' Republic of California, wherein the winner gets all the electoral votes and they are already assigned to Ole Joe. It's a done deal. A vo...
Re: Bugs
That certainly says a lot for our mainstream culture.
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 5:25 pm
- Forum: Ammunition, reloading, shooting, etc
- Topic: Hornaday Interlock 220 grain bullet Sale
- Replies: 27
- Views: 15065
Re: Hornaday Interlock 220 grain bullet Sale
How do they get away with "no tax charged"? They may hide it in their prices, in which case it's just an advertising gimmick, but failing to pay the tax agency in the states of their customers residence is asking for trouble.
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 10:41 pm
- Forum: Chit-Chat
- Topic: Krag rifle in current CMP auction
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2270
Re: Krag rifle in current CMP auction
That tells us a lot about the actual value of our currency. Those of us who think the price is incredibly high are mentally obsolete, behind the times.
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 10:34 pm
- Forum: European Krags
- Topic: Kongsberg stockmakers
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2904
Re: Kongsberg stockmakers
An ordinary young man could have had a far worse job. How many stocks, 1894 to the end of production. I don't remember when that was.