L Ross
Well-Known Member
Today started to a trip to Platteville for an estate sale. Lots of grimy old junk with a few treasures thrown in. We bought 70 pint canning jars, a nice cross pein hammer, two metal ammo cans, and a Marble Woodcraft hunting knife all for 32 bucks. Headed the 47 miles home with jars clinking and clanking all the way. The breakdown was 20 bucks for the jars, a dollar for the hammer, 8 bucks for the two ammo cans, and 3 bucks for the Marble's knife.
Then we headed to a local gun show. Besides my $5 entry fee I spent $15. For which I got 101 sticks of .30-30 brass, 55 R-P, 40 W-W, and 5 Hornady. The R-P brass is destined to become .357 Herretts. Then a fellow had a cigar box with lead in it for which he was asking $5, it had close to 5 lbs. of lead. But lo, this was not quotidian lead as the price would indicate, oh no. 3 lbs. of the "lead" were 45/55 bar solder in bar form, bent and cut to fit in the nice old cigar box. 45% of 3lbs. is 1.35 lbs. of TIN! I offered $3 and the seller gratefully accepted. Demonstrating the perils of selling something when you don't know what you have. I told Sue, (who had been waiting in the car reading), that I bought lead. The double take bespoke volumes as she is painfully aware that I weigh my lead stash in the thousands. Before she could question my sanity I showed her the bars. She said,"What is that, solder?" Gotta love that woman.
Came home and it was almost 70°. The Indian has a belly full of 5 1/2 quarts of fresh 15W-40 and a new air filter, and off we went. 103 miles later we wheeled into the shed. Gorgeous Fall day. Saw no deer but were damn near hit in the heads by a Red Tailed Hawk that dove out of a tree on a little back road. Don't know what it was thinking. Trees starting to turn and of course Sue and I were commenting on the sugar maples.
Canned smoked Yak brisket, boiled red potatoes in the jackets, and sauteed zucchini with onions. A local dark red semi sweet wine, followed by bourbon and M&Ms.
Then we headed to a local gun show. Besides my $5 entry fee I spent $15. For which I got 101 sticks of .30-30 brass, 55 R-P, 40 W-W, and 5 Hornady. The R-P brass is destined to become .357 Herretts. Then a fellow had a cigar box with lead in it for which he was asking $5, it had close to 5 lbs. of lead. But lo, this was not quotidian lead as the price would indicate, oh no. 3 lbs. of the "lead" were 45/55 bar solder in bar form, bent and cut to fit in the nice old cigar box. 45% of 3lbs. is 1.35 lbs. of TIN! I offered $3 and the seller gratefully accepted. Demonstrating the perils of selling something when you don't know what you have. I told Sue, (who had been waiting in the car reading), that I bought lead. The double take bespoke volumes as she is painfully aware that I weigh my lead stash in the thousands. Before she could question my sanity I showed her the bars. She said,"What is that, solder?" Gotta love that woman.
Came home and it was almost 70°. The Indian has a belly full of 5 1/2 quarts of fresh 15W-40 and a new air filter, and off we went. 103 miles later we wheeled into the shed. Gorgeous Fall day. Saw no deer but were damn near hit in the heads by a Red Tailed Hawk that dove out of a tree on a little back road. Don't know what it was thinking. Trees starting to turn and of course Sue and I were commenting on the sugar maples.
Canned smoked Yak brisket, boiled red potatoes in the jackets, and sauteed zucchini with onions. A local dark red semi sweet wine, followed by bourbon and M&Ms.