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I stumbled into too good of a deal to walk away from on it at least.
I was at the range shooting, and a guy was shooting a S&W snub in .38 Spcl. I was talking to him, and he let it slip he had years ago bought a .44 Spcl. on a whim. Once he found out the price of ammo for it when buying a couple of boxes he shot those up, and it went into his closet. He said he oiled it monthly. He had just bought the Smith, and was thinking about selling the .44 Special to recover some of the cash he had dropped on the new gun.
He took the .44 Special out of his bag in the hard shell factory box. I saw Charter Arms on the box. He opened the box, and all of the factory paper work, and fired case were inside. The catalog was for 2009, and he said he bought it in early 2010 on sale. I checked it out. It was clean, and showed that it had not been fired much. Thus confirming his story that he shot two boxes of ammo, then put it up.
I asked what he wanted for it. His price was $200 cash on the table, and proof of state residence. I had extra cash from my sick time sell off in my pocket. I dropped the cash, and showed him my CCW. A hand shake, and his words. "Good luck finding ammo. I have checked every shop within 40 miles. No one has any on the shelf. Cabella's has Winchester Cowboy loads for $45 for 50."
Needless to say I did have to drive to Cabella's the next week. His story about none of the local stores having any panned out. I called 20 shops looking. One had a single box of Speer Gold Dots for $38 for a box of 20. I passed up on that.
I picked up two boxes of the Winchester Cowboy, and one 20 count box of Hornady Critical Defense. I bought a bullet mold and am casting up the first batch for it now.
I was at the range shooting, and a guy was shooting a S&W snub in .38 Spcl. I was talking to him, and he let it slip he had years ago bought a .44 Spcl. on a whim. Once he found out the price of ammo for it when buying a couple of boxes he shot those up, and it went into his closet. He said he oiled it monthly. He had just bought the Smith, and was thinking about selling the .44 Special to recover some of the cash he had dropped on the new gun.
He took the .44 Special out of his bag in the hard shell factory box. I saw Charter Arms on the box. He opened the box, and all of the factory paper work, and fired case were inside. The catalog was for 2009, and he said he bought it in early 2010 on sale. I checked it out. It was clean, and showed that it had not been fired much. Thus confirming his story that he shot two boxes of ammo, then put it up.
I asked what he wanted for it. His price was $200 cash on the table, and proof of state residence. I had extra cash from my sick time sell off in my pocket. I dropped the cash, and showed him my CCW. A hand shake, and his words. "Good luck finding ammo. I have checked every shop within 40 miles. No one has any on the shelf. Cabella's has Winchester Cowboy loads for $45 for 50."
Needless to say I did have to drive to Cabella's the next week. His story about none of the local stores having any panned out. I called 20 shops looking. One had a single box of Speer Gold Dots for $38 for a box of 20. I passed up on that.
I picked up two boxes of the Winchester Cowboy, and one 20 count box of Hornady Critical Defense. I bought a bullet mold and am casting up the first batch for it now.
I have had very nice results with Red Dot, Unique (of course!), Blue Dot, Bullseye and 800X. Most of the loads were created around 200 to 255 grain cast RFN, WC and SWC bullets. Currently in the process experimenting with some very light WC and RN cast bullets ranging from 116-172 grains. Hopefully to allow more enjoyment for my daughters and I from each pound of lead and powder. Trying to assemble some cream puff loads for plinking and the occasional rabbit or squirrel we may encounter when bumming around our property.