Acquired some treasures

[shoots_5]

A friend of mine had a lady at their church who knew he hunted give him her late husbands foot locker that was full of ammo and reloading supplies. He doesn't reload so he gave it to me. Still digging through it all but there's some neat old treasures in there.

Any idea how old the boxes of sierra bullets and hornady bullets are? They are older than my memory of what they used to come in.

As I dig through and sort it all out I'll probably post some of it on the classified section for calibers I don't use. Appears he had a 30-30, 30-06 and a 270. Haven't gotten into the pistol ammo much yet.

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[shoots_5]

I'm assuming this sierra 150 flat nose bullets are pretty old....just noticed the price written on the box of $5.25!


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[shoots_5]

Sent a picture to the guys at Sierra and they couldn't give an exact date but said that they moved to Santa Fe Springs in 1963.....so they were made sometime after that. The box of 270 bullets is even unopened.


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[truck driver]

I have some boxes of Sierra bullets like that from when I first started reloading rifle calibers and they would date back in the 1970s, Also have boxes of Hornady from that era that look very similar. The Peters .38 SPL ammo boxes are from the 50-60's I believe.

 

[gerry]

Cool gift. It will be fun to go trough it all.

 

[Dwh7271]

IIRC, the Hornady box is late 70s early 80s. I still have one similar from around then.

 

[Elkman]

I have several boxes of the Hornady's of the same date in fact my Wyoming elk was killed with three of them. I have to check the boxes on my Sierra bullets to see if any are of that vintage. Many of the Hornady bullets are made the same way now, as 40 years ago.

 

[Wincheringen]

Nice score, I picked up a treasure trove a few years ago that was about 40 boxes of bullets. Many of them were sealed and I remember some of the Sierra bullets had a Whittier CA address on them. I never really looked into how old they were. I see that Santa Fe Springs and Whittier are part of the LA metro area.

 

[Elkman]

Well I had to go and look I have 600 of the Sierra's made in California and 700 of the Hornady's in the older box. I understand that you perceive them as treasures, but I am still loading bullets older than these. I probably won't work my way out of them before I am gone.

 

[PJGunner]

I have Sierra boxes from the mid early to mid 60"s and yours are newer that that. I don't remember when I got my Hornady bullets from way back when but I have boxes like yours with the bottom blank, some stamped Interlock with a rubber stamp and some with Interlock printed on the box. They all shoot just fine.
Paul B.

 

[sask boy]

Man that is a great gift!! I really enjoy going through older reloading compontents & books!!
Have fun

Blessings,
Dan

 

[preacher]

I remember all those, ha! There was a hardware/sporting goods store in town, old as dirt, and the son's ran it. They were hunters and shooters and kept a good assortment. They were good about allowing me ( I was 10!) to look at all their ammo, even open the boxes and look at them, would even "break a box" of ammo for you! This practice went way back during the depression when people could only afford a few cartridges or shotgun shells at a time. times sure have changed.

 

[Elkman]

Dan
I really enjoy going through older reloading components & books!!

Dan is making fun of the things I use every day. :?

 

[Elkman]

preacher
This practice went way back during the depression when people could only afford a few cartridges or shotgun shells at a time. times sure have changed.

I have thought that I was one of the most senior members here. If you were 10 in the 1930's you have me beat by a long ways. Keep up the good work

 

[Vince]

preacher
This practice went way back during the depression when people could only afford a few cartridges or shotgun shells at a time. times sure have changed.

I have thought that I was one of the most senior members here. If you were 10 in the 1930's you have me beat by a long ways. Keep up the good work

And I feel like one of the more senior members.

I talk at times like I'm an old fart as a way of motivating myself. For some strange reason I find it motivates me.

Vince

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[DrMike]

I'm enjoying my advanced age. I earned every one of my grey hairs and wrinkles. Each wrinkle and each ache has a story, just as the dings on my rifles each speak of hunts and adventures. Keep going, Bill; you're an inspiration to many of us.

 

[preacher]

No Elkman, ha, I'm just a pup...62; 63 this February! ha. I would walk down to the Hardware store during my lunch break in "4th grade" and look at the ammo and such. Since my dad and his generaion ( and the store owners) survived the Great Depression and were still around then, they would still "break a box" of ammo for you until the mid-70's! I didn't see everything posted in the pic, but I remember most of it. I didn't see a box of Norma (0-06) ammo in our neck of the woods until 1971! Interesting, folks who tried to use it in their Mod 742's (30-06) ended up with stuck cases with the rims pulled off....pretty high pressure stuff, ha.