long ago during the pre-Y2K when i first started shooting i had a garand and am AR15 and started accumulating .223. every week i would but a box or 2 of wwb (the thread over in pistol ammo reminded me of this), lovingly wrap it up in plastic and stash it away in a cardboard box. when i got 1,000 rounds in the box, i figured i was good for zombies or whatever and sealed it up and put it away. then we moved to tennessee, and then to NC, and then again in NC, and it occurs to me that i haven't seen that box of ammo in a LONG time, and i wonder if i accidentally left it behind in some dark corner, and if so, won't someone be surprised when they open that box they found?
surely no one else has done this sort of thing. at least i know where all of my guns are (the ones i remember)...
Re: seem to have lost my stash
2Never had enough to lose. I only stockpiled 22, which easily fit in two ammo cans.
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3One thing I never lose track of is my beer. The rest, I dunno. There may be a round or two stashed out in the reloading shack left over from maybe 1978 or 9. I haven't been back there with any amount of seriousness since at least the mid 90's, and then it was for something important. Which I forget what it was. With a flashlight between the aisles can be glimpsed vaguely cube shaped crates back behind the tennis rackets and Exer-genie, beneath Xmas decorations untouched since my son's 4th grade party. He's 40.
I sympathize with folks who sort of lose track of things. I'm pretty sure I've lost track of things that I forget I had. I don't miss them I think.
CDFingers
I sympathize with folks who sort of lose track of things. I'm pretty sure I've lost track of things that I forget I had. I don't miss them I think.
CDFingers
Crazy cat peekin' through a lace bandana
like a one-eyed Cheshire, like a diamond-eyed Jack
like a one-eyed Cheshire, like a diamond-eyed Jack
Re: seem to have lost my stash
4Done that. Lost track of a box of 223 for a couple of years- since I was reloading for it anyway, didn't really look. Came across it in an odd spot in the garage a month ago and it was like the holidays!
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5i'm hoping that i've been hauling it around all this time and one day will stumble upon it.
i'm retired. what's your excuse?
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6Dang. That hurts.
"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence. There is hope for a violent man to become non-violent. There is no such hope for the impotent." -Gandhi
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7I once bought a house where a number of previous owners left things in the attic crawlspace.
Is anybody missing a cookie tin of pot and cigarette paper circa 1970?
Is anybody missing a cookie tin of pot and cigarette paper circa 1970?
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8Was it a Pepperidge Farm tin with a with Currier and Ives print and the orange pack Zig Zags?spara wrote: Thu Sep 12, 2019 10:14 am I once bought a house where a number of previous owners left things in the attic crawlspace.
Is anybody missing a cookie tin of pot and cigarette paper circa 1970?
"it's a goddamn impossible way of life"
"And so it goes"
"And so it goes"
Re: seem to have lost my stash
9You got the Zig Zags rightgeno wrote: Thu Sep 12, 2019 2:15 pmWas it a Pepperidge Farm tin with a with Currier and Ives print and the orange pack Zig Zags?spara wrote: Thu Sep 12, 2019 10:14 am I once bought a house where a number of previous owners left things in the attic crawlspace.
Is anybody missing a cookie tin of pot and cigarette paper circa 1970?
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10>giggle<
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CDFingers
Crazy cat peekin' through a lace bandana
like a one-eyed Cheshire, like a diamond-eyed Jack
like a one-eyed Cheshire, like a diamond-eyed Jack
Re: seem to have lost my stash
11Wow. Someone had to leave in a hurry, I guess?spara wrote: Thu Sep 12, 2019 10:14 am I once bought a house where a number of previous owners left things in the attic crawlspace.
Is anybody missing a cookie tin of pot and cigarette paper circa 1970?
It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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12Lol I lost my guns in a boating accident.lurker wrote: Wed Sep 11, 2019 7:45 am long ago during the pre-Y2K when i first started shooting i had a garand and am AR15 and started accumulating .223. every week i would but a box or 2 of wwb (the thread over in pistol ammo reminded me of this), lovingly wrap it up in plastic and stash it away in a cardboard box. when i got 1,000 rounds in the box, i figured i was good for zombies or whatever and sealed it up and put it away. then we moved to tennessee, and then to NC, and then again in NC, and it occurs to me that i haven't seen that box of ammo in a LONG time, and i wonder if i accidentally left it behind in some dark corner, and if so, won't someone be surprised when they open that box they found?
surely no one else has done this sort of thing. at least i know where all of my guns are (the ones i remember)...
Everything is better with beer and comrades.