Whats your best score/find/trade/buy when it comes to reloading?

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Seeing an increase in cost in all things related to firearms over the last few years made me remember when it was far cheaper and plentiful a few years ago when I first actually got licensed. I use to go to Simpsons auction in Creemore all the time. Deals to be had! My best score was when I knew I was going to get into reloading and decided to start purchasing components. This one auction I managed to fill my trunk, backseat and passenger seat with boxes of brass, bullets, dies, primers, Plano boxes. Think I spent $200. I sold one small box of components on EE of .338 stuff that I don't shoot that covered the whole days cost. Wish I had purchased almost everything that day. I remember the reloading stuff didn't get auctioned until 8hours into auction off to the side of the firearms being auctioned. So anyone left after 8 hours was mostly concentrating on firearms, myself and 5-6 others after reloading items cleaned up. Some stuff was not even bought!

Lets hear some of your stories if you don't mind, will hopefully enforce the fact that it didn't always cost a kidney to go out shooting for the day! Lol
 
Well lets see now; don't want to go back in time would rather deal with items in todays market. Sooo Winchester Featherweight 70 LTD edition 2008 in 270WSM with very nice wood.
Reloader 15, 3 sealed and one open with very little used, so almost 4lbs, and today 2 box of 160gr nos part in .277 cal. All very fair buys from great guys.
 
Right after I got a .270 I had a member at my range collect from another shooter 120 once-fired cases for me for free, knowing that I will reload. That was a good score.
 
I acquired a Bonanza Co-Ax from a family friend. It was purchased new in 1983 or so but the husband passed away and sat in the lady's garage for 25+ years and she ended up giving it me.
 
I once scored 2 ammo cans (7.62X51 sized) full of once fired IVI .303 brass for 20 bucks.

I would share but someone needs to have a word with CGN first....
 
2 weeks ago I saw an ad on a french canadian gun forum. 40$ for a mix lot of 9mm, 357mag, 7.62x51, 5.56, 303. I bought it and there was:

-800 norinco 5.56
-250 norinco 7.62x51
-240 357magnum
-350 9mm (wolff)
-20 303br
-12 hornady 150gr 308Win
-10 40s&w
-half a box of Federal blue box 22lr
-1 winchester2.75 12ga slug


Hell of a score for 40$
 
Well I bought a rem 700 tactical with a B&L 3-9 on it at the gun store in st.paul for 525$, traded it for a ruger mini 14 583 series, found another 700 tac online for 600, bought that dressed it up in an LSS I bought second hand and threw a Leupold VXR 3-9 from cabelas bargain cave 400$, and an ACS I got from another trade, traded the ruger for an SL8 plus 950$, then ended up trading the 2 rifles and scope for my now beloved modern Hunter in .308.
 
I've gotten a few decent reloading deals,,,,just bought a couple of pounds of Win 748 for $45 so basically half price. Bought 190 hard to find once fired 7-08 cases for $35,,,,,,ended up selling 90 of them for the same price I paid for them but in retrospect I should have kept them all. Got 98 once fired Lapua .308 brass for 20 cents each and 100 Nosler .308 brass for ten bucks. As far as bullets go, I got three 100 per box Hornady 150 gr. interlocks for $20 a box. I found out a week later the guy sold off three more boxes for the same price. Had I known he had them I would have scooped them up, as well,,,,makes good practice ammo!

As far as factory ammo is concerned I once bought a 1260 case of South African milsurp for $350 (about 28 cents/round). Shot off bunch and sold the last 700 of them for $425 (60 cents/round) which was the going price so I could buy reloading components,,,,, so that was definitely a sweet deal coming and going!
 
DT741 said:
2 weeks ago I saw an ad on a french canadian gun forum. 40$ for a mix lot of 9mm, 357mag, 7.62x51, 5.56, 303. I bought it and there was:

-800 norinco 5.56
-250 norinco 7.62x51
-240 357magnum
-350 9mm (wolff)
-20 303br
-12 hornady 150gr 308Win
-10 40s&w
-half a box of Federal blue box 22lr
-1 winchester2.75 12ga slug


Hell of a score for 40$
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Wow, score! I thought I had done well a few years ago - bought 800rds of Norinco 7.62x51 for a really good price... turned out there were over 1200 rounds in the box. Still not as good a deal as you got!
 
was given ~1000 pcs of 38sp brass from a fellow revolver shooter that does not reload. I'm just getting setup now to shoot PPC with a modified S&W model 64 (my first gun in 38sp), so this was great timing :)
 
100x .45acp Hornady XTP hollowpoint 230grn bullets
500x .45acp Berry's hardball 230grn bullets
3 die set of RCBS Carbide dies
500x fully prepped 1x .45acp brass
approx. 1500x .45acp brass

all for $150 Canadian delivered to my workplace :)
 
Way back in the early to mid 90's, there was the Great Primer Famine.
A rumour got started that the feds were going to somehow make primers that go dead after a set time, a year or two...
HUGE buying frenzy followed, sort of like the recent .22LR frenzy.
Eventually the production caught up with demand, then soon there was a glut because every US reloader had a lifetime supply by then.
At a gunshow in WA state, I got several flats of 5000 Win primers for US$55 per 5000 ($11/1000)




I came across a garage sale where a guy had a complete Dillon 550 press, along with several (3 I think) die sets and a spare head and powder measure, all for $125 !
I recall saying that if I didnt have one already, I would be all over that...
I drove about 2 blocks before thinking WTF! Buy it as a spare! The extra head and measure, along with dies is worth that alone.
 
Two good scores that I can think of:

1. A 10 lb. keg (actual wgt.) of Unique for $50.

2. A case of .38 spl+P factory new for free. Pretty rank to shoot from a handgun, but I have a Rossi 1892. :dancingbanana:
 
My best score (through a classified website) is a Hornady 366 12ga press in good shape for only $100 !

Guess what... it came with a bunch of powder and shot bushings and 5000 (!) cheddite primers.
 
Dillon square deal -b 9 mm dies 38 dies 44 mag dies 45 dies and as pare powder hopper for it with all rcbs 505 scale 500 38 brass 500 358 158 gr wad cutters. Their was some more odds and ends in the box also. I asked how much $200.00 so i bought it. it was an estate sale about 15 years ago.
 
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