A young friend of mine came to visit yesterday from the northern end of the State. He works in a scrap yard and he told me that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, And Firearms had finished their annual qualifying shoot at the State capitol and delivered the fired brass to his yard. The ATF range is one of those country-club affairs with matted shooting lanes and other amenities and they police up their brass after every course of fire and put them into bins segregated by caliber. So what do you think this dear boy brought for me? 14 pounds-weight of once-fired, shiny, clean, Lake City Match brass in .308. (My favorite!) At 40 pcs to the pound that's 560 pcs and he has another bucket of the same brass at home for me. He has also been segregating the "old" wheelweights from the new zinc or steel wheel weights and says he has five or six, 5 gallon steel buckets full of them for me in his garage and will ferry them down, one per visit, over the next year. I was so astonished by the offer that I bought him a set of 6.8 SPC dies for his deer rifle -coincidentally on close out at the trading post- in return. He didn't want to take them but I remember being young and newly wed, and the cost of the dies came no where near the value of the brass or the thoughtfulness of the gesture. ~Muir
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