Cheesewhiz
Hunter
Well, if one could claim themselves nuts and it would stand up in court.
A few years back I picked up a pistol (Tanfoglio) in the .41 Action Express caliber. It's a "dead round", no one makes this round anymore.
...but I reload and I figured I would just find some brass and have at it, no problem.
I started looking on Gunbroker to find brass and it was few and far between, it can be made from .41 Mag brass but it needs to have the rim diameter changed to that of a 9mm and then the brass is cut to length. So you can imagine that the brass is a bit pricey anyway you go. I started to find "new old stock" completed ammo on Gunbroker and started bidding on some of these also. Boy, do those guys know how to work up an auction.
...but I picked up a couple of boxes of fifty here and there, all Israeli made (IMI) for about what it would cost for brass and happily went from there. Well I kept looking and bidding, I didn't win a whole lot of them but I did win a few.
Found some very rare stuff too, self defense stuff, odd weights, didn't win any of those, they got real pricey but this really consumed some of my time during the day, sometimes, day after day.
I came across the rarest of rare recently and bid on it, got an alert that I was out bid and just took a look and I rebid a bit more thinking someone would out bid me again but no. So now I'm the proud but lighter in the wallet owner of 20 rounds of Speer Gold Dot .41 AE 180gr factory ammo in box.
I could reload about a thousand 9mm rounds for what this box of 20 cost me.
The offending hole making hardware.
So I admit it, I'm nuts. How can I spend my time and money on something that hardly anyone even knows was ever made and now no one even cares about but me and about 10 other idiots that keep outbidding each other on Gunbroker?
A few years back I picked up a pistol (Tanfoglio) in the .41 Action Express caliber. It's a "dead round", no one makes this round anymore.
...but I reload and I figured I would just find some brass and have at it, no problem.
I started looking on Gunbroker to find brass and it was few and far between, it can be made from .41 Mag brass but it needs to have the rim diameter changed to that of a 9mm and then the brass is cut to length. So you can imagine that the brass is a bit pricey anyway you go. I started to find "new old stock" completed ammo on Gunbroker and started bidding on some of these also. Boy, do those guys know how to work up an auction.
...but I picked up a couple of boxes of fifty here and there, all Israeli made (IMI) for about what it would cost for brass and happily went from there. Well I kept looking and bidding, I didn't win a whole lot of them but I did win a few.
Found some very rare stuff too, self defense stuff, odd weights, didn't win any of those, they got real pricey but this really consumed some of my time during the day, sometimes, day after day.
I came across the rarest of rare recently and bid on it, got an alert that I was out bid and just took a look and I rebid a bit more thinking someone would out bid me again but no. So now I'm the proud but lighter in the wallet owner of 20 rounds of Speer Gold Dot .41 AE 180gr factory ammo in box.
I could reload about a thousand 9mm rounds for what this box of 20 cost me.
The offending hole making hardware.
So I admit it, I'm nuts. How can I spend my time and money on something that hardly anyone even knows was ever made and now no one even cares about but me and about 10 other idiots that keep outbidding each other on Gunbroker?
