Damn, that Scorpion is already tricked out!! VERY nice.

I haven't seen that suppressor before. Looks cool.

Really cool. Don't have to buy subsonic 9mm ammo. The design slows down standard velocity 115 gr ball 9mm enough to make it subsonic.

Yesterday I started my inventory
Today I continue doing it.

How many weeks does it take you?

I'm doing some cleaning as I go.
Won't be quick.

I too have been doing an inventory since build #3 & 4 to make room in the Colonial 50...
I’m going to retrofit my 3’x6’ metal cabinet with a locking mechanism to store all my surplus home rolled ammo.

Cleaned a handgun today.
I absolutely hate cleaning guns, so this was a fairly dramatic occasion.

How is that possible?

*edit*. never mind, figured it out...the suppressor isn't slowing down the projectile, they've ported the barrel along the rifling like the MP5SD. cool.

Today I finally worked up my courage, and dove into a box of old ammo . . . and stuff . . . that rmacconaghy gave me, that she had inherited from a friend.

It doesn't look THAT bad from the top....



A lot of what was inside was .30-06 ammo, mostly reloads but also a little factory ammo (the shinier stuff with the round nose bullets on the right side):



Some of the reloads had pieces of tape that indicated -- I dunno, charge weight?





This particular round had string neatly wound around it . . . wtf? Reminds me of those grenade-launching Enfields. Does the string help keep the case from blowing up?



Check out those shotgun shells at the back:



An old box of .22:



An old bottle of Hoppes that cost 50 cents:



And another bottle that looks even older:



Some old components . . . yes, that will probably work just fine and I'll use them:



I tossed the 5 bullets that were in this box, but the sales receipt is fun. Looks like 1963? And $5 for the box of 100 .308 bullets:



And lastly, this die set caught my eye. It's for .30-06:





I did some Googling, and found this:

Tidbit #1: "Jack Ashurst lived in Grangeville, Idaho, and took over Lyman McCrea's gunshop and cartridge line about 1941. He dropped the McCrea cartridge designs for his own. He had four .25 calibers, based on the .22 Savage HP, the .30-30, the .30-06 and the .275 H&H Magnum cases, and a .270, .280, 7MM and .300 cartridge series all based on the .300 H&H Magnum case. The cases featured the short necks and abrupt shoulders typical of wildcats of the period, although several of them retained the body taper of the parent cases. The usual blistering velocities were claimed for these creations. This from Wildcat Cartridges by Richard F. Simmons. I think P.O. Ackley described some Ashurst cartridges in his Handbook for Shooters and Reloaders. However, neither list a 6mm Ashurst."

Tidbit #2: "Jax dies were made by Jack Ashurst, probably when Ashurst was operating "Jax Die Company" in Kootenai, Idaho, in the 1960s.

Ashurst was a partner with Lyman McCrea, and took over McCrea's shop (in California?) during WWII. Both Ashurst and McCrea were noted developers of wildcat cartridges. Simmon's book Wildcat Cartridges lists nine different Ashurst cartridges; seven are listed for McCrea.

In his column in Guns & Ammo in the early 1960s, Elmer Keith noted that Ashurst had gone into production of reloading dies. He mentioned in passing that Ashurst had made the barrel for one of the rifles that Keith took on an Arican safari.

I scored a .30-06 Jax reloading die set on eBay about a year ago. I tried the FL sizer, and it produced some odd rounding of the shoulder of the case. Your die set may do better."

I think I'll keep those primers and bullets . . . and trash/recycle the rest. The best I can tell, none of it is worth anything. If anyone is hot for the Jax dies, let me know.

I wouldn't shoot ANY of that ammo Steve as possibly unsafe, but rather than throw it out there are cartridge collectors who collect for display purposes.

You might look into that.

Or make a cool shadowbox or display of some sort yourself.

Yeah, I'm not planning to shoot it. I was originally wondering if I could pull it apart and salvage bullets and maybe brass, but it's not worth doing that either.

Oh, and there were a few rounds of .300 H&H Magnum in there too . . . shown on the left, next to a .30-06:



And a few rounds of 6.5 Arisaka too, which I can use. They were in decent shape.

FIFY

Thanks. Fixed. Sometimes I get those two mixed up.