- Location
- Western Manitoba
As you mention - you can pick and chose what you want to purchase or sell on CGN - does not all have to be guns - gun parts, many scopes, scope mount rings and or bases, probably most reloading tools and many supplies that I have, were bought on here - and I sold lots of that stuff as well. Be aware of pricing - some is, shall we say, "optimistic" - but that is always in the buyer's eyes - where you are, what it costs "all in" - purchase price plus shipping to you. No doubt is better "deals" to be had in some cities, if you go to some stores, in person - but the closest store to me that sells reloading stuff, that I know about, is a couple hours drive from here.
For most of the reloading tools - is hard for them to be "worn out" from use - but many are easy to be abused and not useable - "abused" as in never lubricated or cleaned, or bent, or ground or filed on, etc. Be especially wary regarding brass cases - is many folk who apparently do not realize there is a difference between "once fired" and "twenty times previously fired" - with my stainless pin wet tumbler, I can make the most grungiest looking stuff look shiny sparkling new, inside and outside. Some bullets that have been tarnished from exposure to atmosphere, or from being handled, can be cleaned up in various tumblers - they look "new-ish", now.
Some buyers are prepared to accept a Seller's say so, and save themselves some fussing - so they go for the Seller that claims the brass is already "pre-processed" - sized, trimmed, cleaned, etc. Others of us are tooled up for all that and have the time, so I prefer to get previously fired cases, with the fired primers still in them - just as they were picked up off the ground or extracted from the rifle they were fired in - to each their own, I suspect. Perhaps, at minimum, goes to what you are prepared to pay for.
I have not usually bought "second hand" powder or primers - unless they were a VERY good deal - and enough that I could try out several dozen rounds before I would depend on the stuff - I have no control how some of that might have been stored for the past 30 years. Powder and primers can deteriorate over the years - especially if not stored appropriately - and that includes the powder and primers in loaded rounds - factory or hand loads.
For most of the reloading tools - is hard for them to be "worn out" from use - but many are easy to be abused and not useable - "abused" as in never lubricated or cleaned, or bent, or ground or filed on, etc. Be especially wary regarding brass cases - is many folk who apparently do not realize there is a difference between "once fired" and "twenty times previously fired" - with my stainless pin wet tumbler, I can make the most grungiest looking stuff look shiny sparkling new, inside and outside. Some bullets that have been tarnished from exposure to atmosphere, or from being handled, can be cleaned up in various tumblers - they look "new-ish", now.
Some buyers are prepared to accept a Seller's say so, and save themselves some fussing - so they go for the Seller that claims the brass is already "pre-processed" - sized, trimmed, cleaned, etc. Others of us are tooled up for all that and have the time, so I prefer to get previously fired cases, with the fired primers still in them - just as they were picked up off the ground or extracted from the rifle they were fired in - to each their own, I suspect. Perhaps, at minimum, goes to what you are prepared to pay for.
I have not usually bought "second hand" powder or primers - unless they were a VERY good deal - and enough that I could try out several dozen rounds before I would depend on the stuff - I have no control how some of that might have been stored for the past 30 years. Powder and primers can deteriorate over the years - especially if not stored appropriately - and that includes the powder and primers in loaded rounds - factory or hand loads.
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