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Old 11-28-2020, 12:18 PM   #1 (permalink)
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This was posted on the local gulf coast gun forum during a discussion of Banana trees.

Banana trees scare me.......When I was in middle school at Kadena AB, Okinawa (77-80), a typhoon mangled the one in our back yard. My dad instructed me to haul it to the boonies, no problem at first. When I started pulling it the rest of the way out of the ground, there in the root slaw was a WWII American grenade.

Told my dad, he comes out, looks, calls EOD, they determine it can't be moved and destroyed it in place. I can't tell you how many times my little brother and I played in and around that tree and digging around the roots. I quit digging holes for the rest of our Okinawa tour.

Thank God, dad had taught me lesson and I didn't pick it up. A year or so earlier I was snorkeling and drug a Naval Shell up on the beach, that caused the beach to be shut down and EOD called out to deal with it. I couldn't sit for a week or so after that stunt.

He learnt me not to touch things that go booooooom.
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Old 12-07-2020, 07:43 AM   #2 (permalink)
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At least he didn't have to move the tree. I'll bet that grenade mulched it up right in place!

Okay, so I still can't get around a banana discussion on a firearms forum...
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Looking for some reasonably prices .380 ACP rounds.

Oh crap never mind sorry.....
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Forget reasonably priced. Finding it at all is the issue. Even 9mm is going for $40-$60 for a box of 50 at the gun shows. 5.56 ball is $.85 a round, and SS109 if you can find it, up to $2 a round. .22LR is almost impossible to find too. Lucky I have 15,000 rounds or so. I am seriously contemplating taking some of my stuff to the next show and putting it out. People are panic buying right now, and for good reason. If my book on building 80% AR lowers was still in print, it'd be flying off the shelves.

I cast a lot of my own bullets, and I should probably start loading a bunch of 9mm. I think I have 10,000 pistol primers or so, which is the hard to find component in these times. I could most likely make a killing. Pardon the pun.
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Forget reasonably priced. Finding it at all is the issue. Even 9mm is going for $40-$60 for a box of 50 at the gun shows. 5.56 ball is $.85 a round, and SS109 if you can find it, up to $2 a round. .22LR is almost impossible to find too. Lucky I have 15,000 rounds or so. I am seriously contemplating taking some of my stuff to the next show and putting it out. People are panic buying right now, and for good reason. If my book on building 80% AR lowers was still in print, it'd be flying off the shelves.

I cast a lot of my own bullets, and I should probably start loading a bunch of 9mm. I think I have 10,000 pistol primers or so, which is the hard to find component in these times. I could most likely make a killing. Pardon the pun.
I did find 500 rounds of .380 for .71 per.... Steep AF but I bought them anyway. I also just picked up 750 rounds of 9mm 124g for about .56 per. Not panic buying but needed some. That and the 400 rounds of 00 buck will hold me for a minute...
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It's certainly a good start! Methinks we'll be needing as much as we can get, come March or so.
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We need that cat in Snarky`s signature lol
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That cat could be the face of my daughter's band. Her name is Cat
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