Trying to straighten out my loading room, and I discovered I have 3 powder scales. the 505 I started with and an RCBS 10-10 and the Lyman version of the 10-10 (both were made by Ohaus)

Then I found a set of 270 dies.. I've never owned a 270, never cared to own a 270... No idea where they came from..

Then somehw I ended up with 3 Balscope Sr spotting scopes... all 20X, one on a tripod, one with a window mount and one waiting for a tripod..

Several trimmers, i forget who's....

this is just what comes to mind at the moment... I'm gathering up my surplus and you'll see it in the classifieds probably before the end of the year after I figure out what I'm gonna keep...

It comes from having a "reputation" as a handloader. Every time someone decides to get rid of stuff or more particularly, a widow is getting rid of their deceased husband's stuff, they call you up and say "make me an offer" for the whole lot. Not wanting to cause the widow further distress, we make a reasonable offer, which is graciously accepted, and just like that we end-up with all kinds of stuff that we have no use for - the usual result is that we end up having to purchase a rifle just to have something for the new bunch of brass and bullets. Life's tough for us nice-guy handloaders.

Americans buy stuff....

Live long enough and you will accumulate a lot of stuff

I have dies and shell holders for cartridges that I've never owned, magazines for guns that I've never owned but the worst things are rifle barrels and blanks. I have a dozen or more stainless and CM contoured blanks and I'm not sure where some of them came from.

I have a 26", .243, 8 twist, stainless blank in what looks like a No. 5 contour, with an "S" or "5" stamped in the breech end. I wish I knew who made it.

HA!
don't feel bad I wondered where all that 270 stuff I had come from.
then found a model 70 270...... in the back of the closet.

Frank,
Funny you posted this thread. For the last few weeks I have been moving all my reloading gear from the old spot to the new room I built in the basement. I have a real problem (thats the first step, admitting your problem). Way more stuff than I ever realized I had collected. Is there a "Reloaders Anonymous" ?

add forty different kinds of powder.....

the latest find.............

found a bunch of magazines for guns I've never owned... a couple for a 760 game master (which I would NEVER own), one for a Mauser WTP 25ACP, and a couple 25 and 380 mags for guns I've never owned.. found a few unidentified holsters too... all right handed, and I'm a lefty! Can't recall for the life of me where this stuff came from...

Maybe I'm a Clepto?

Moved to a new house Dec 2017. Haven't unboxed my reloading/hunting/gun stuff yet. I'm anticipating a mix of it being like Christmas and a lot of where did this come from and why do I have it?

40 kinds of powders is ridiculous. I've slimed down to 17; of course I quit reloading shotgun and sold half of my centerfires. :-)

It's called Hoarding; and is a certified mental illness. I tell my friends who have several lifetimes' supplies of ammo and components stacked up, Can't wait for your estate sale.

I've still got some bullets in boxes from more than 40 years ago. I started reloading when I was 19 (now 63) and have a hoarding problem like many of the rest of us.

Forty year old components are like new to me. Pre WW2 is, "old". Except for black powder; I have some from the 1930s; it does not deteriorate.

I have the same problem, but beginning to solve it. I just send it to dpcd.

I have all of Pop's stuff and have added stuff over the years. I figured I'd help out a new reloader and passed a bunch of stuff to him.

I have a shelf marked, "the back 40".

And I have an empty shelf ...... maybe I will finally have a place to put those pictures of my kid if I can find them.

I try to limit the amount of reloading stuff I accumulate, esp. powder, but the back shed is filled with beds and other junk.

When the kids were young their friends would come for sleepovers so I'd keep superseded couches etc for when they did. A near-new baby's cot was kept for grandchildren. The parties and and grandkids have come and gone but I don't think anyone has ever used any of that stuff since it went out there.

Oh man, here I thought I was the only one that filled a room with such stuff!

Pa Frank: What are those holsters?

I'm looking for a couple Hunter brand 7 1/2" holsters for Blackhawks. Had three pistols stolen a few years ago that were in them. Have replaced the guns but not the buckets for 'em.

Thanks,
George

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Originally posted by georgeld:
Oh man, here I thought I was the only one that filled a room with such stuff!

Pa Frank: What are those holsters?

I'm looking for a couple Hunter brand 7 1/2" holsters for Blackhawks. Had three pistols stolen a few years ago that were in them. Have replaced the guns but not the buckets for 'em.

Thanks,
George

George, none were SA or auto holsters... a couple duty holsters and a couple other odd DA holsters.. they all ended up on the "free" table at my gun club..

Oh yeah, just go read the classified and the amount of brass and bullets Im getting rid of, not to mention the number of guns Ive sold over the last year..I will be cleaning house by this time next year, but the less I have to deal with the easier its getting..and at my age I don't want to saddle my wife with getting rid of it..food for thought for you curmudgeons.

Was going thru my reloading 'stuff' and I found some items which have obscure roots...

Found a box of 45 gr 223 Sierra bullets. Sold back when Sierra was in California.

Have enough 270 brass to last me forever. And 223 brass to last twice as long.

Found in my wealth of materials... a reloading block staggered stepwise... and a circular reloading block. Both look homemade. they work fine.

Then I figured it out: Remember Parkinson's Law?? WORK EXPANDS TO FILL THE AVAILABLE TIME.

A correlary of that law must be: STUFF EXPANDS TO FILL THE AVAILABLE SPACE!!!

All this stuff we have was accumulated because we have too large a reloading area. Thoreau was right: SIMPLIFY.

If you doubt my words, check out the place where your wife keeps all her shoes. ALL her shoes.

Don't worry if your reloading space collects random things. Its a Law of the Universe.

I recently stumbled over some nice stuff. one of Verne Juenke's internal bullet comparators, an Oehler model 33, 200 338 lapua brass pieces. Time to take pictures, package for the usps and sell in the classifieds.

I don't consider myself a hoarder or pack rat but I have to keep on top of stuff. Of course it doesn't help having a wife whose addicted to yard sales. We use the 3 month rule when sorting stuff. Has this been used in the last 3 months ? If not it won't be used in the next three either so it goes into the thrift store box. Nature abhors a vacuum. Drive down a street and look at double garages packed full of stuff so the homeowner can't park his car inside.