Old shells

The shot and wads are valuable. If you have a lot of ammo to salvage, there are gizmos like the "case cutter" to make the job a breeze. It's the shot shell equivalent to a bullet puller -- a cottage made block of wood with a hole and a blade. IIRC, You insert the shell in the hole and apply pressure to the blade holder while giving it a turn. I have one around here somewhere.
 
The "case cutter" has a stop so it opens the hull in the wad column between the shot cup and the over-powder wad -- neat and clean.
 
"1982 isn't THAT old"

He hurt my feelings too. I was 32 then.

I buy 28ga. paper shells at the gun show to shoot and they're much older. There's always somebody with a coffee can or cigar box with odds and ends. I've even found reasonable priced boxes of paper shells from time to time.

I just like the smell of smoking paper hulls. Reminds me of my childhood.
 
I have, in my possession, some 16-ga Remington SP16 shells (#4, Express PowerPiston) that are about 50 years old. Last year, I fired two of them just to see what effects age might have had. Seemed to fire perfectly normal. For the first 30 of the 50 years, they were kept in a reasonably cool non-air conditionned place.
 
"Maybe, but we're not really talking about stuff you shot in 1940 (just kidding Mike)"

HEY YOU PUNK KID! GET OFFA' MY LAWN! (shakes cane vigorously)
 
Zippy - is this the one you're talking about?

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He gets a lot of good reviews:

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My understanding is that they are around $30.00 and handmade
 
Those gold hulls look like almost new Remington Nitros .... cutting those is a crime .....:eek:

If he's really making and selling those for $ 30 ...he's working for nothing .../that's cheap ...
 
I recently found some 20 and 12 gauge birdshot rounds buried by my grandparents' clay thrower. They could've been buried there for only God knows how long. I'm not ashamed to say that I won't be firing them.

:rolleyes:
 
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