Aristo! Aristo! A la lanterne!: The things you find......

Sunday, January 22, 2012

The things you find......

On my chore list today, cleaning out a few closets and organizing a few piles. One particular pile... this one.... needed doing something fierce.

This would be the ammunition back stock that I don't use too often. It's made up of both large cans of ammunition purchased when mil-surp is cheap, and assorted dribs and drabs collected over decades. The majority of the D/D's are handloads tailored to rifles I no longer own or use. I came across a 20mm can of 7.62x54 I forgot I had, so perhaps that rifle will see a lot more use at the military rifle matches this year! I also came across a 50 cal can of 12 gauge buckshot needin shooting up and replaced.

I count 19 calibers and gauges represented, with most having more than one type of offering. There are four different loadings in 30-06, several in .444 Marlin, five in .308/7.62, four in .243, two in 45/70, three in 22-250, two in 8x56r......... etc.

3 comments:

ZerCool said...: I don't have quite that assortment, but there are a couple boxes of oddballs in my cabinets as well. A half box of .300WSSM. A half box of Kleen-Bore (red/green remington) .35Rem. Three or four bags of .25-20 brass...

I consider it investing in future trades.; January 22, 2012 at 1:04 PM
Old NFO said...: I got rid of all my oddball stuff about three years ago... :-); January 22, 2012 at 8:56 PM
Rita said...: I am a blog reader. I am always searching for new blogs to read and when I find blogs I like, I go back in the archives and read just about everything.

I can say that you have one of the best blogs I have ever read. I wonder if yours has ever been nominated for a blogging award? If you haven't, I am very interested in nominating yours. If you are opposed to that, please advise me.

Thank you for sharing your gift.; January 24, 2012 at 12:07 AM

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"Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect.

But there is no reward at all for doing what other people expect of you, and to do so is not merely difficult, but impossible. It is easier to deal with a footpad than it is with the leech who wants "just a few minutes of your time, please — this won't take long." Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few. If you allow yourself to fall into the vice of agreeing to such requests, they quickly snowball to the point where these parasites will use up 100 percent of your time — and squawk for more!
So learn to say No — and to be rude about it when necessary.
Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you.

(This rule does not mean that you must not do a favor for a friend, or even a stranger. But let the choice be yours. Don't do it because it is "expected" of you.)"

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