My most useless shooting accessory! What is yours???

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Off brand magazines.
I used to have a big bin full of various maker mags for various guns. I gave them all away a while back. I had collected these mags for decades. Some for 1911s, ARs, Glocks, Rugers, etc. A long time ago I quit looking for “quality discount magazines”. I learned to buy quality, keep quality.
 
Yep, I have a few orphaned magazines floating around. I also seem to have more cleaning rods for old milsurp rifles than I have rifles. Junky old scopes and red dots that work, although not well, and cheap knives purchased because they were--cheap. Isn't this what gun shows are for?
 
Mine is the .38/357 laser cartridge thing that wasn't cheap, and is so far off being centered that the dot from it was about 4 feet off at 30 feet. I complained, and they sent me a replacement, which was almost as bad. When I finally decided to sight the two guns in the old fashioned way, they were pretty much dead on. Well, they make OK cat toys.
 
Bfh_auto said:
Mine is a lead sled. I got talked into it for load development on a 300wm.
Repeatability is terrible compared to bags.
I'll just eat the recoil and move on.
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There is one at my shooting club. I have used it when patterning magnum turkey loads (ouch).
 
WestKentucky said:
Mine is quite easily the range finder I got for Christmas a few years ago. It’s small, light, great unit that always gets left at home. Truth be told I don’t even know where it is now, and I’m hunting thick woods so my absolute longest possible shot is still within 200 yards so for my rifles that is within an inch and a half of point of aim all the way.
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I have several too. They rarely get used for anything except archery.
 
Plan2Live said:
How about trigger locks that come with the gun if bought new? Yes I secure my guns but not with those.
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I have a large collection of those. I use them to lock my big job-site tool box in my shed where I store ammo, and I have also used one to lock things like my 4 wheeler ramp to a cargo stay in the bed of my truck so no one steals it. When I worked at a gun shop, lots of gun buyers would donate their locks if they didn't wan them, and we would offer them free of charge to people who bought used guns. Most of them passed.
 
Old Dog said:
The proverbial "Box'o'holsters" including Galcos, Kramers Bianchis, Safarilands, BladeTecs (perhaps a Milt Sparks or two) and others, not in use. Mebbe a few knives as well. Belts, slings, miscellaneous accessories ...

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I have one of those. I try to get rid of them when I sell a handgun, if I can find one that fits the handgun I am selling.
 
rust collector said:
Yep, I have a few orphaned magazines floating around. I also seem to have more cleaning rods for old milsurp rifles than I have rifles. Junky old scopes and red dots that work, although not well, and cheap knives purchased because they were--cheap. Isn't this what gun shows are for?
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I have lots of orphaned mags, (like a rubber made bucket full) as well as what is probably an excess amount of GI type AR mags- but IMO they are worth keeping. Every once in a while, a friend will purchase a gun with only 1 mag, and sometimes I will have a spare to give him. Also, with the uncertain future for our sport- I hang on to the mags certain groups may want to "regulate" in the future. I don't own a M9, Sig 226 or 228, or AK, but these are some of the orphaned mags I have. I also own a C mag that I have absolutely no use for.
 
Bfh_auto said:
Mine is a lead sled. I got talked into it for load development on a 300wm.
Repeatability is terrible compared to bags.
I'll just eat the recoil and move on.
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Same here.....

A friend gave me one along with two of their shot bag carriers.

I used it a couple times, and took some pics to thank him. The adjustability frankly sucks and I spent more time fiddling with it to recenter than it was worth. It now occupies a spot in my reloading room gathering dust.

I've gone back to "Embracing the Recoil" and if it is a real thumper, I'll use a PAST shoulder pad and a slip on recoil pad.
 
I had a box full of junky import take-off scopes that either came with decent used rifles, or people "gifted" them to me after they replaced their junk with better scopes that they had me mount. I also had a bunch of crappy cheap plastic stocks from various rifles that I upgraded either for myself or other people. Most of that stuff found its way to the trash when I moved. A few months ago I bought a multi tool purpose built for the AR15. I have used it once.
 
South Prairie Jim said:
Ha '
I thought at one time I had to have a consentricity gauge, went out of my way to acquire one then determined that it didn't make any difference on the target.
Wasted money
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I thought the same thing. I bought the 21st Century tool.

I meticulously measured runout on 50 rounds on the middle of the neck and halfway between ogive and tip, then sorted the whole lot, best to worst. Then I headed out to the range.

Best concentricity (almost none), 0.60 MOA. Worst concentricity (0.0045" TIR), 0.52 MOA.

Now I know it's not the reloader, it's the shooter. I thought much more highly of myself before I bought that tool. It now sits collecting dust. My own elf on the shelf. In all fairness, the lesson learned was worth the modest price of tuition, and it is a very well made and nice tool.
 
I bought this little plunger that you are supposed to push down on the rounds in a magazine and it will gauge how many are left, dipstick style. It seemed useful for checking downloads as with the 10 round maximum for IDPA in a high capacity magazine. It doesn't work for me.
 
Lead sled. A PAST shoulder pads works better,is lighter and can travel in your range bag.
 
Plan2Live said:
I'll step up and give you $50 per cabinet drawer full, plus shipping. I only have three holsters and I actually use those so I hate to feel left out of the useless holster club.
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Thanks for the offer but like others on here I include a holster when I sell a firearm plus some of those holster’s cost me $$$.
Two weeks ago I sold a 9mm Argentine Browning HI Power clone. Included a Bianchi holster and 50 rounds of Blazer Brass with the sale. Guy that bought it, someone I had sold to before, told me he just wanted the ammo and already had a buyer for the Hi Power. He figured he paid $10 for the ammo when it was all said and done. I also had 20 or so emails from folks that just wanted the ammo.
 
Concentricity +1. The Lee beam scale and powder throw that comes in the starter reloading sets. Case lube pad. Holsters by the dozens
 
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