particularly like 'sleeper' knives. Have a couple of shoe-boxes full of off-beat, useful blade configs. As well, before they got 'known',scarfed up all sorts of older carbon steel kitchen/butcher knives, When I started research, it was interesting to find that some of them were as old as mid-19th century -- but just hadn't apparently been 'sharpened to death'. Same with Scando-blades, which have finally taken off into higher prices.

Anyway, that blade/handle style is one of my choices for all around. when I get bored at a show, it's time to search the 'rubble piles', tho', the InterNets have altered even that. Fewer sleepers = very optimistic pricing ;~`)

Nothing to really grabbed my fancy but enough to poke at to keep me interested. Just 10 feet in the door and a vendor of "Miscellaneous Olde Stuff" (gun related, not junque), had 6 boxes of 7mm Ackley Magnum reloads! He volunteered to sell me the lot for components for $5/box. So, I got my arms stretched out lugging the sack around the rest of the morning.

Interestingly, they were marked "7mm Ackley Magnum No.1" and "No.2". While I cannot measure shoulder corners very closely, the only real difference I find is in the neck length where the No. 1 is a bit shorter. No mention of variations in Ackley's books or other references at hand. Both chamber in my rifle with no issue.

Now, to pick up a 7mm collet for my puller and build some low end loads to see how it shoots.

Yep, you never know what'll turn up.

If you go to a gun show looking for something specific to the exclusion of all else, maybe you will find it, maybe you won't, but the odds are the show will not live up to your expectations. If you go to enjoy the variety of things put out for sale and display, the history represented and the fellowship of like-minded folks, odds are in your favor of finding not only a more enjoyable experience, but also some real deals on unique treasures.

bought that 24...

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Sincerely,

Hobie