Speling Champ
| I keep ammo for calibers/Guns I no longer own for the occasional range day with friends who still have Those calibers/Guns.
I get to shoot something fun once in a while and I’m not inconveniencing or cutting into a friends possibly limited stock. Since most of my friends gun guys it’s pretty common On range trips to end up shooting something I no longer own (or never owned). |
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| I would keep it. To my wife’s dismay I tend to keep things. I’m not a hoarder but I never but anything thinking about ever selling it. Yes I have ammo with no gun to fire it. |
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Just because something is legal to do doesn't mean it is the smart thing to do.
| Only caliber ammo that I have without a firearm for is .22wrf. Rifle I had was stolen in 1982 and have not found a reasonable priced replacement. Other then that I have never sold any of my guns so I don't have the problem you speak off.
Integrity is doing the right thing, even when nobody is looking.
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I Wanna Missile
| When my FIL passed he had ammo in several misc calibers that he didn’t own guns for... and now I have it. 23 rounds of 44 Special? 17 rounds of 45 Colt? 56 rounds of 25 ACP?
"I am a Soldier. I fight where I'm told and I win where I fight."
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| Yes. Always.
“Everybody wants a Sig in the sheets but a Glock on the streets.” -bionic218 04-02-2014
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| Guilty.
I think I even have some ammo for calibers of firearm I have never owned. |
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Age Quod Agis
| Hell, I've got reloading dies for a caliber I don't (and never have) owned. Mere ammo is for amateurs. I'd keep it on the off chance you end up with another .38, or I'd sell or trade it locally for something more useful. Shipping it would be terribly expensive.
"I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation."
Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II.
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| Keep it. Thus when your grandkids are cleaning out your home, they will (1) have a brief laugh during an otherwise unpleasant task and (2) have a deepened understanding of their late grandpa’s peculiar nature.
You should also keep used gift wrapping & foil as well as drained motor oil. You never know when that might come in handy. |
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| ArtieS beat me to it. I have reloading tools for a caliber I no longer own. I never know when a 280 might show up again. 38 spcl? Sure I’d hold onto it. As common as sunshine.
Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well. -Epictetus |
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| Of course you keep it. Duh.
It's potential TRADING material...
Not to mention the more exotic it is generally the more it goes up in price.
A good example is 303 British ammo. Not too many years ago it used was available surplus at every gun show and easy to get. People took it for granted like 22LR.
Now... it's 75 cents a round.
Anything self-defense or higher end in pretty much any caliber really goes up. |
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| I still have a couple of boxes of 9x18 Makarov, traded the one I owned 25 years ago. Wasn't that easy to find back then, so I held on to the cartridges. |
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Just because you can,
doesn't mean you should
| I bought some .22 last year just because and it was cheap at the time. Never owned a gun in that caliber. Does that count?
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| And nothing is more appreciated when ammo is nonexistent than a friend/relative placing a box of beautiful golden freedom seeds in your hand- |
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