Monday, January 07, 2013

Sometimes a messy basement is a good thing.

Just before events in Connecticut gave Democrats the excuse they'd been waiting for to launch another war on our guns and our rights, I went to visit a fellow blogger. Being a nice guy, I offered to stop at a store along the way that sold primers at a decent price and pick him a batch up. He gave me a shopping list, and since I was going there, I went through my primer storage box and made a list of my own based on what I appeared to be getting low on. I got his stuff, and I got several boxes of my own, figuring that I'd be set for a while. So imagine my surprise when, a few days later, I was moving stuff around in my ridiculously cluttered basement when I came across a shopping bag from that same gun shop tucked away inside a bin full of other stuff. Looking inside, I found several more boxes of primers, almost a duplicate order of what I'd just bought, and a receipt dated four months earlier. Apparently I'd bought primers but neglected to put them where they were supposed to go and forgotten about them. Fast-forward to December, noting the "shortage", I bought another large order before finding the first batch. Now I have about twice what I need in every size.

I should have been rightly pissed, but looking at primer prices and availability now, I'm happy that I screwed up in this fortuitous fashion. No matter what happens politically, there will be primer shortages here for quite a while.

Smoke that, neat-freaks. Sometimes it pays to be disorganized.

8 comments:

  1. Thank goodness for getting older and becoming forgetful!

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  2. LOL, who knows what ELSE is in that basement... :-) And that's good news!

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  3. Heh-heh.

    In a similar vein, I came across a partial 3# canister of discontinued WW/Olin shotshell propellant in the garage last night, originally designed for heavy 12 ga loads.

    While I've no intention of reloading any duck/goose loads, a wee bit of internet research revealed & corroborated that it would be a pretty decent choice under a 200 gr .452 LSWC. Besides, it'll go a lot farther in that application than the one for which it was originally intended.

    America's Test Kitchen - Reloading Edition: I think I'll cobble up a couple of magazines full to test next weekend.


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  4. I never do that with anything interesting
    Just things like frozen lima beans.

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  5. I'm stocked fine. I headed the warnings when Bill 'red dress' Clinton and Janet 'baby killer' Reno were in power.

    One heck of alot of people just kept partying along!

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  6. Being "Right" for the wrong reason is my motto for life. Glad it worked out for you.

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  7. Yeah, I do that every once in a while, but its usually a tool or something.

    Good on you!

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  8. BTDT, but with radio parts and other stuff.

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