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I try not to buy Chinese stuff ....
Posted: Tue May 30, 2023 4:25 pm
by butlersrangers
... but this cartridge-carrier just had a nice vintage look to it.
At around $18, it will fit in with one of my .30-40 Krag 'sporters'.
I have to protect those 4 Dollar Krag rounds!
Re: I try not to buy Chinese stuff ....
Posted: Tue May 30, 2023 6:31 pm
by FredC
I would keep an eye out for corrosion on the cases. Sometimes Chinese companies take short cuts and the tanning chemicals could be nonstandard. If all seems well after a couple of months, you should be OK.
If all is OK, it does have nice looks and appears to be functional.
Re: I try not to buy Chinese stuff ....
Posted: Tue May 30, 2023 8:42 pm
by Culpeper
butlersrangers wrote: ↑Tue May 30, 2023 4:25 pm
...I have to protect those 4 Dollar Krag rounds!
Avoid long term storage of brass on leather. Brass will turn green with verdigris but you probably knew that already. A buddy stored some .22 WMR in a leather pouch. Yep. All a nice blue-green.
Re: I try not to buy Chinese stuff ....
Posted: Tue May 30, 2023 9:24 pm
by butlersrangers
All good points! Frankly, I don't trust leather slings, holsters, cartridge-loops, or gun-cases for more than temporary short-term contact with metal surfaces.
I also view fabrics, 'fleece', and protective foam padding with suspicion.
Re: I try not to buy Chinese stuff ....
Posted: Tue May 30, 2023 10:52 pm
by King carp
It is not easy to avoid buying chinese made goods. That stuff is all over this country. Most of it is inferior quality. Some of it is downright dangerous. I try my best to avoid purchasing anything from there. Before WW2 the japanese bought tons of U.S. scrap steel from us. When they attacked us they were lobbing the same steel at our troops. I don't want to buy something from china and have the money spent on it buying some ordinance that gets sent my way someday. Its too bad we no longer have the manufacturing ability to supply our own country.
Re: I try not to buy Chinese stuff ....
Posted: Wed May 31, 2023 2:07 am
by waterman
And we can't blame the Loony Left for that.
Re: I try not to buy Chinese stuff ....
Posted: Wed May 31, 2023 10:06 am
by polska
Don't worry about a shooting war with China. We are collapsing from within and they know it. Self desrtuction of the greatest country the world has ever known .
Re: I try not to buy Chinese stuff ....
Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2023 11:31 pm
by Dick Hosmer
Buck Fiden!!!! AND all of his creatures . . .
Re: I try not to buy Chinese stuff ....
Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2023 2:17 am
by waterman
We can be unhappy with Sleepy Joe and his Socialist allies, but the guys who made the decisions to close the steel mills in the rust belt and all the textile mills in the east and south because they could make more money from Asiatic labor are the ones who are responsible for most of this mess.