As I mentioned in an earlier post ...we've been helping my in-laws clean out a storage building on their property. Buried beneath many assorted boxes and items were a few interesting discoveries including a Remington 12 Gauge, which we're pretty certain has never been shot. We also found large lots of ammo in various calibers, including sealed tins of 5.45x39MM 1080Rds marked from Russia, along with sealed cans of Chinese ammo dated 1970-1972, green with yellow stenciled paint. We think we know where these were purchased ...we found a receipt from 1990, J&G Sales in Prescott, AZ. There were also ammo cans of Federal Lake City Green Tipped 5.56 in Bandoleers and stripper clips, and a large assortment of mostly pistol rounds, all boxed, which had been collected for years. Based on the size of the building, we're guessing we are better than halfway through the tangle. I can post more pics as we make our way through if anyone is interested.
If anyone has information on the above we'd love to hear it. Neither of us shoot these calibers. I am familiar with the Remington 870, but is this so called "Police Magnum" version really any different than standard?. One website "expert" claims it is sold to law enforcement only ...okay, if that's true, what's it doing here? The owners are not in law enforcement, never were. Other sites claim the SS109 is a steel "penetrator," but come on, a .223 is a smallish round lacking weight, no matter what you do it ...not much against steel plate.
What happened here is that the owner of the property, like family to us, and a Korean War combat veteran, became seriously ill about 1991. Being a happy wanderer, he would deposit items from his various jaunts until one day it became an effort to organize properly, and according to his youngest daughter, that alone almost killed him ...he had been super detailed, a machinist and later a custom builder. When the temperatures in the summer hit, it was all he could do to toss items and flee, the net result was an enormous tangle. When he died, nobody wanted to go near the storage building, his personal space, which they had dubbed the "bunker" and "the Alamo." His wife died 18 months later. In the years that followed, his son (also my brother in law) would ask if I'd help sort through the place. My answer was always the same, just set the date ...but he never did ...the very thought made them sad. My sister told me they all loved and respected the old man so much, they couldn't shake the feeling they would be invading ...and so now, decades later, we're making real progress. Before we started I had asked the old man's daughter what she thought was there. She quoted her father: "So many spare parts you'd get lost looking."
If anyone has information on the above we'd love to hear it. Neither of us shoot these calibers. I am familiar with the Remington 870, but is this so called "Police Magnum" version really any different than standard?. One website "expert" claims it is sold to law enforcement only ...okay, if that's true, what's it doing here? The owners are not in law enforcement, never were. Other sites claim the SS109 is a steel "penetrator," but come on, a .223 is a smallish round lacking weight, no matter what you do it ...not much against steel plate.
What happened here is that the owner of the property, like family to us, and a Korean War combat veteran, became seriously ill about 1991. Being a happy wanderer, he would deposit items from his various jaunts until one day it became an effort to organize properly, and according to his youngest daughter, that alone almost killed him ...he had been super detailed, a machinist and later a custom builder. When the temperatures in the summer hit, it was all he could do to toss items and flee, the net result was an enormous tangle. When he died, nobody wanted to go near the storage building, his personal space, which they had dubbed the "bunker" and "the Alamo." His wife died 18 months later. In the years that followed, his son (also my brother in law) would ask if I'd help sort through the place. My answer was always the same, just set the date ...but he never did ...the very thought made them sad. My sister told me they all loved and respected the old man so much, they couldn't shake the feeling they would be invading ...and so now, decades later, we're making real progress. Before we started I had asked the old man's daughter what she thought was there. She quoted her father: "So many spare parts you'd get lost looking."
