Cartridge collecting

"just not interesting to most folks"

Who gives a rat's rump about them. If they're interesting to you, you should display them and to hell with the CHUDs.
 
This is a great thread. Thanks for posting your collection.

I'm relatively new to collecting calibers (started in 1999), and it is more of a passive hobby. I usually pick up brass whenever I'm out at a range and sometimes acquire brass and oddball cartridges through friends that know I collect.

Not to hijack the thread, but I have a question for everyone. In your experiences, what is the best way that you've found to identify old or uncommon head stamps on odd ball cartridges? ...other than a google search.

I've used such sites as http://cartridgecollectors.org before.
 
There are a number of links on the IAA website that you might try, not to mention a pretty good book list. Join the Forum there and feel free to ask. Pics and measurements are very helpful.

Mike, I just have way too much to display. I can always root through the drawers for a thrill.
 
so no one has any pics of their cartridge collections ???

( I could take one of mine, but it would just look like a pile of brass & cartridges )

since I'm just finishing my walk in gun safe, I've been thinking of expanding on my "holes in the 2 X 4" process I started with... thought about having a dimensional 2" X 2" with radiused edges lining the walls ( that aren't covered in guns ) at or around eye level ( like the old fashioned plate rail in a farm house ) & line my cartridges by caliber around the room... I may actually have to go close to ceiling height, since I have a lower ceiling in my walk in gun safe, & I'm a taller guy... ( the rifle racks go to within 8" of the ceilings, so maybe just above them ) I could then locate & pull down anything someone might want to see...

thoughts ???
 
Yeah, all my 5.56mm brass with various headstamps and the few pieces of COMBLOC stuff I picked up are all in a pretty beat up ammo can at the moment.

My eventual plan is to align them in front of my books on the shelf once my sister moves out and I can reclaim my reloading/arms room/library
 
I used to pick up unusual old ammo at gun shows. I now have a box full but none is sorted or labeled. Not really a collection, more of an accumulation. However, there may be some unique and rare items in there. My quandry is what to do with it. Like everything I hate to sell too cheap, there might be one real gem in the lot. I'm getting up in years, heck, I HAVE gotten up in years.:rolleyes: I know they would go in the trash if my son cleans the house when I kick. What to do?
 
I have over 200 different factory loaded cartridges, 348 SilverTip is probably my favorite, anyone seen Scorpion 38spl ammo? I think it's the original hand gun ammo with a "post" in the hollow point (Hydra Shock). I believe Federal bought the Scorpion, they look like a 148WC loaded upside down, with the post in the cavity.
 
Rifleman1776, you will have to either spend a lot of time identifying and trying to price what you have (not easy), find a local collector to help you ID it all (not too many in Arkansas), or send the whole batch to an honest collector and work out a deal. Three or four decent group pics of the lot would be a help in deciding if it's worth any great effort.
 
I'm not a collector per se, I suppose, but I do look for and buy neat-looking boxes of older cartridges, my requirements are a full box, and really nice condition of the box. Got about 40 boxes, ranging from old .22LR and a nice minty .22 Hornet, up to a Martini-Henry packet of 10 rounds from the Zulu War. Picked up a box of Remington 6.5mm Mannlicher-Schoenauer last month, that was kind of neat, and found some great African calibers last year in Kynoch and Winchester boxes. The military stuff is fun to pick up, got a French 7.5 box and some WWII pistol rounds from several countries. It'll make a nice display once I find a curio cabinet for it all.
 
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