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Yesterday, I bought 150 rounds of never-been-fired nickel plated R-P brass loaded with 155 gr. Palma match bullets, H380, case necks turned, match primers, clean, nicely packaged......for... ...drum roll.....$20
In my 63 years, I've been to hundreds of local auctions/estate sales/gunshows where handloads can be bought for less than what well used brass sells for. I personally have been GIVEN thousands of rounds of handloads because........
We all read in gun magazines that you should never shoot other people's handloads......or.......your shooting buddies always say, (because they also read that in gun mags) "Oh no, it's dangerous to shoot other people's handloads". BUT......how many people actually have real experience in other people's loads??? Doing what you've been told, huh?
Common sense....
If different calibers are all mixed up and small amounts of each caliber...dump it or salvage components.
If it's old and tarnished/corroded.......dump it
Look to see if the handloader paid attention to detail...crimp...primer depth..do you see case mouth cracks?...etc.
Pull one out of ten bullets and inspect bullets/powder for uniformity.
Do some case length measurements...uniform?
Put the empty primed case in your shootin' iron and snap a cap.
Is it packaged neatly? Clean cases...labeled properly with attention to detail in the label?
Is the load a top level load?...may not be safe in YOUR gun
Did you know the handloder?....that tells a lot.
No handloader with 1/4 of a brain wants to deliberately or carelessly ruin a fine gun.
If your at a show, keep in my mind the dealer knows how hard it is to sell handholds....offer him pennies.
You think I'm stupid? Just educating you guys because I have about a 1000 rounds of nice, fresh, neatly packaged handloads in once fired or new brass in expensive-calibers-to-shoot...7 mag/.338 mag./.300 whby.mag/25-06/280/243/222 and others that I'll be moving sometime this year.......plus, to educate you boys to get screaming deals from gun shows, neighbors, "buddies"...
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Don't always believe what you read.....use common sense.------6