Finding ammo unexpectedly

[dixieD]

I just found about 100 rds of 45acp and 100 357 squirreled away. I celebrated by buying 500 rds of 223.

[perpetual otter]

I went to a garage sale that was selling everything from the house and garage (apparently it was the sellers parents who had passed away and they lived in another state). I remembered the elderly couple and knew the gentleman to be a hunter and NRA instructor (wore the hat every weekend) and I used to spend a couple minutes talking about guns and stuff every once in a while. So I went to check it out to see if his daughter was going to sell the firearms. When I go there I found out that the guns were all sold but I could "help myself" to anything in his garage. I looked around for a bit and I found a lot of decent stuff and was about to settle for a holster and some primers before finding a CACHE I mean a huge CACHE of 9mm (about 6k rounds) 45 ACP ( about 4k rds) 10 bricks of .22LR and M193 (about 10k rds). I told her to name her price and after a phone call to her husband (and seeing as how I was "friends" with her father) she let it all go to me for $500. Sweetest deal ever.

[kdmmcc]

Long Lost

I was going through my ammo closet tonight to organize it, and lo and behold!, I found a stash of 9mm and 38 special. Don't you just love it when you find long "lost/forgotten" ammo? Anyone else have experiences like this?

I spent about ten years in the Marine Corps deployed out of state; after buying my first M1 Garand I would order surplus 30-06 ammo whenever I could find it and send it home to my dad; he would throw it in my storage shed and forget about it. Years later, I came back to CA, bought a house and emptied my shed; and found lots and lots of suplus 30-06 ammo just waiting, ammo cans covered in dust, but bright, clean ammo.