I always thought you were in your own little world; glad you now admit it.
A friend was getting up in years and knew he needed to get things in order if he was going to have control over a life time of collecting. the first thing I suggested: He had an off campus office that was going to be impossible for anyone to sort/organize so I suggested we start at the office. I offered to disseminate between dumpster, home, family friends. That did not happen because he said a family member would take care of; as long as the sorted items were in the office the family had to pay the rent.
And then it came to his shop; I got help from one of my grandchildren. A wild guess, he had just over 2,000 pounds. And then there were loose ends, rifles he build in the early '60 were being rebuilt; problem he had not heard from the smith doing the work, the smith never signed the rifle into his shop. My friend was worried he would never see the rifles he had promised to friends family members. and then there is that part where I do not live in your universe, when things go wrong no one wants to see me get involved. I got all of his rifles, one had a bullet stuck in the barrel? I decided I would jack the pressure up in the barrel and point it at something cheap. That is when I found a jag with the bullet and a broken .250" drill bit.
What to do? I donated a 7MM Remington mag. barrel,
I live in a different world, I made it very clear my friend was not going to loose his rifles and as usual I was threatened.
Among the rifles he gave me was a 1891 Argentine chambered to 308W. It was his loaner
, when friends came to hunt without a rifle they got the 1891 Argentine. He told me it was a 308 W, I told him it was a Belgium Mauser. During the inspection if the rifles I discovered I was wrong. I contacted friends about parts. In the other world the parts would have cost me $700+ as it worked out the parts cost me $100, the parts included a complete rifle.
I had to drive all the way to Irving, TX, round trip had to be 50 miles.
F. Guffey