happy camper

Elvis · Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2021 11:49 pm Post subject: happy camper

A little heavy package arrived in mail for me today...87 x 170grn speer round nose fence post projectiles......in cardboard Speer box so they are possibly older than the other plastic box Ive got....now have about 150 of them so DONT NEED ANYMORE .277 projectiles possibly ever.
Im as happy as a pup with two peckers Very Happy

dhc4ever · Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2021 2:10 pm Post subject: Re: happy camper

So we can start calling you 2 dogs from now on?

Do we ever have "enough"?

slimjim · Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2021 5:50 pm Post subject: Re: happy camper

That is 35 years of shooting for my 270 harvesting an elk, pronghorn, and deer every year.

DallanC · Site Admin Joined: Jan 18, 2005 Posts: 3688 Location: Utah

Cant be worse than those 195 Gr Barnes "Originals" in .277 ... ugliest bullet out there.

-DallanC

Elvis · Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2021 8:21 pm Post subject: Re: happy camper

they are a thing of beauty....

dhc4ever · Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2021 3:34 pm Post subject: Re: happy camper

Function over form Dallan, function over form.

Gil Martin · Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2021 4:51 pm Post subject: Re: happy camper

Well done! I like a story with a happy ending. All the best...
Gil

Elvis · Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2021 10:37 pm Post subject: Re: happy camper

today SWMBO and myself were wandering through the recycling part of refuse dump..."this any use to you" she says pointing....
"yes " I reply
"buy it" she says

so a LEE 3 turret press found its way home....it has a #2 shell holder in it.
press looks to be in good working order and it stops in place with click OK
and the best bit.....$15
now to fit it on reloading table next to the LEE challenger.
Gil isnt the only one to find bargains...he just does it more often than most.

Pumpkinslinger · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2021 3:07 am Post subject: Re: happy camper

Pretty nice find!

Vince · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2021 5:04 pm Post subject: Re: happy camper

Good score…on both counts Elvis…you done good mate, as did Eagle Eye Becs. So now you both have Native American names mate…Two Dogs and Eagle Eye.
Haha

Elvis · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2021 11:09 pm Post subject: Re: happy camper

congrats on the promotion Mate...

Elvis · Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2022 10:28 pm Post subject: Re: happy camper

today the postie dropped off another small,heavy package.....some hundred plus 130grn winchester SILVERTIPS...YIP thats right the old school alloy coated exposed lead type.....happy as a pup with two peckers.....
saw photo of fellas new reloading stuff so asked what the WW box was,the instant he said .277 silvertips I was "first dibs" as it wasnt a calibre he loads for....swapped a few more 150grn speer hotcor in .308 for them.....happy, happy, happy

dhc4ever · Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2022 3:49 am Post subject: Re: happy camper

Keep this up and you will give Gil a run for his money finding bargins.

DallanC · Site Admin Joined: Jan 18, 2005 Posts: 3688 Location: Utah

Elvis wrote:

today the postie dropped off another small,heavy package.....some hundred plus 130grn winchester SILVERTIPS...YIP thats right the old school alloy coated exposed lead type.....happy as a pup with two peckers....

Wait, the Nosler / Winchester combined technology Ballistic Silvertip? .277, 130gr?

I have a unopened box my brother gave me for a birthday like 30 years ago. It's just been sitting on a shelf all this time. IDK what shipping to NZ is like... I wish you were closer, I'd trade them to you for something.

-DallanC

Vince · Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2022 4:03 pm Post subject: Re: happy camper

Dallan wrote:

… IDK what shipping to NZ is like... I wish you were closer, I'd trade them to you for something.

The thought is there mate, but unfortunately the NZ Govt has outlawed any firearms parts or related bits and bobs from being mailed into the country.

I am currently holding a couple of boxes of NOSLER BALLISTIC TIP 7MM 120GR that I bought for Radar last July…I have had no luck finding a way to get them to him…yet, but I’m working on it.