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| < 16ga. Ammunition & Reloading ~ Any collector value to these? |
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Sun Apr 07, 2019 10:03 pm
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I just acquired 10 boxes of 16 ga.Win MK5 1 1/8 oz. and 16 boxes of 16 ga. Win. Xpert
1 1/8 oz. ammunition. These are plastic hulls and they came in their original 20 box cardboard case.
There are price stickers on some of the boxes from someplace called Yellow Front and you would have had to put out the unheard of price of $3.65 per box.
I was curious if there was any collector value to them or should I just go ahead and shoot them? |
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Mon Apr 08, 2019 6:21 am
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| The Expert Mark 5 1 1/8 of 6's in both 16 and 12 ga are wonderful pheasant loads. I wish they still made them. I've used all up that I got from Dad and wish I had more. You could check the ammo section on Gunbroker to see if they have any collector value. |
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Mon Apr 08, 2019 5:38 pm
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| I collect vintage ammo, and I can tell you for a fact that those are worth money. especially in the original case. probably in the hundreds. |
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Tue Apr 09, 2019 5:11 am
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| Heck, they are worth $200 "face value", to use a coin collector term |
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Tue Apr 09, 2019 9:44 pm
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Case 1775, thanks for the info. As I mentioned in my original post they did come in the original 20 box case but someone, years ago cut the flaps off of the box.
The 10 ammunition boxes are pristine. |
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Tue Apr 09, 2019 9:45 pm
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Case 1775, thanks for the info. As I mentioned in my original post they did come in the original 20 box case but someone, years ago cut the flaps off of the box.
The 10 ammunition boxes are pristine. |
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Wed Apr 10, 2019 5:29 pm
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| no problem. there is a case of 16ga skeet ammo on gb right now that they are asking 400 for. just for reference. |
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Wed Apr 10, 2019 5:32 pm
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| that is also mark 5 btw. |
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Wed Apr 10, 2019 8:09 pm
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Last edited by mike campbell on Fri Jul 26, 2019 6:43 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Thu Apr 11, 2019 6:11 am
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| Mike is right on. I don't see getting $20 for a box of plastic shells unless the buyer is a novice. |
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Thu Apr 11, 2019 4:37 pm
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| Plastic shells are like cigars... if you got em,,,, smoke em,,,, |
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Thu Apr 11, 2019 4:51 pm
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| its not necessarily the shells. the old boxes, with original shells, is what is collectible. |
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Thu Apr 11, 2019 4:53 pm
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| they display very nicely. |
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Thu Apr 11, 2019 5:04 pm
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| ...Used to get our AZ Hunting Licenses at the Yellow Front in Yuma in the eighties...I can't remember where it was, but Yuma was a Much Smaller place back then |
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Thu Apr 11, 2019 5:31 pm
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