I am an archaeology student at a university. I work in the lab quite a bit. Often, when we are sorting artifacts, we find firearms related items. Today I found part of the brass of a 12ga. shotgun shell. This part,which consisted of the primer and two tiny flakes of the rim, was paper(on the inside) ahead of the primer. I assume that this was a paper shell. My question is, what year did all brass shells go out and paper come in?
P.S. I have quite a bit of firearms knowledge, but gun history before ww1 is not one of my strong points It would be really nice if we had some kind of ammunition timeline to keep in the lab.
Thanks, m16
P.S. I have quite a bit of firearms knowledge, but gun history before ww1 is not one of my strong points It would be really nice if we had some kind of ammunition timeline to keep in the lab.
Thanks, m16