I stopped in at a yard sale, odd for this time of year.
I seldom do yard sales in town. This one was appx 5 km out of Vernon.
The fellow had sold his place and was moving into a retirement home.
There was the usual stuff old folks hold onto that most people no longer want or care about.
I did see an old, beat-to-death tree stand on one of the tables.
I asked the fellow if he had any firearms or accessories for sale and he told me he had just sold a press, with a set of dies and the old 270 win, Savage he had owned and hunted with for 50 years.
Then he went on with regaling me with stories of hunts gone by etc. Nice fellow, never strayed far from home for his hunts.
As he talked, you could see a light come on.
He suddenly remembered he hadn't brought out the powder or bullets he had left and asked me if I was interested.
I was of course and mentioned he might have some primers? He had given the primers to a friend last year, a part 100 count box.
When he came back, he had 5 1/2 pounds of H100V, he and a few buds had picked up a case when Wholesale Sports in Westbank closed down.
He asked for $100 for the powder and a twenty year old box of Speer Grand Slam 145 grain bullets. I gave him $150 to be fair.
He was happy and told me that was more than he paid for the stuff.
I was surprised that he had so much powder on hand as he only loaded for the one firearm. Then he told me it was the only firearm he had ever owned.
No 22rf or shotguns at all. He bought the rifle to hunt with a friend who had passed a few years ago, and wasn't interested in anything but Deer.
It was pretty obvious from his stuff, and some from his deceased wife, that they had lived well but frugally.
When he purchased the powder, he and three other friends bought two cases together. The other three took two pounds each, which was the contents of one case and he ended up taking a full case, which he told me cost him $80.
Well, I'm very happy to get this powder, I like it. However, its burn rate is somewhere between H4350 and H4831, which is very close to N160, so it will come in very handy in 30-06 capacity cases with light to medium-weight bullets.
You just never know, until you ask.
I seldom do yard sales in town. This one was appx 5 km out of Vernon.
The fellow had sold his place and was moving into a retirement home.
There was the usual stuff old folks hold onto that most people no longer want or care about.
I did see an old, beat-to-death tree stand on one of the tables.
I asked the fellow if he had any firearms or accessories for sale and he told me he had just sold a press, with a set of dies and the old 270 win, Savage he had owned and hunted with for 50 years.
Then he went on with regaling me with stories of hunts gone by etc. Nice fellow, never strayed far from home for his hunts.
As he talked, you could see a light come on.
He suddenly remembered he hadn't brought out the powder or bullets he had left and asked me if I was interested.
I was of course and mentioned he might have some primers? He had given the primers to a friend last year, a part 100 count box.
When he came back, he had 5 1/2 pounds of H100V, he and a few buds had picked up a case when Wholesale Sports in Westbank closed down.
He asked for $100 for the powder and a twenty year old box of Speer Grand Slam 145 grain bullets. I gave him $150 to be fair.
He was happy and told me that was more than he paid for the stuff.
I was surprised that he had so much powder on hand as he only loaded for the one firearm. Then he told me it was the only firearm he had ever owned.
No 22rf or shotguns at all. He bought the rifle to hunt with a friend who had passed a few years ago, and wasn't interested in anything but Deer.
It was pretty obvious from his stuff, and some from his deceased wife, that they had lived well but frugally.
When he purchased the powder, he and three other friends bought two cases together. The other three took two pounds each, which was the contents of one case and he ended up taking a full case, which he told me cost him $80.
Well, I'm very happy to get this powder, I like it. However, its burn rate is somewhere between H4350 and H4831, which is very close to N160, so it will come in very handy in 30-06 capacity cases with light to medium-weight bullets.
You just never know, until you ask.
