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Montana16
PostPosted: Sat Sep 22, 2018 2:01 pm  Reply with quote



Joined: 14 Oct 2011
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Location: Eastern Washington

Today the family and I are in the midst of relocating to Spokane Washington. A family friend stopped by and gave me a gift. Apparently her grandfather had it for quite some time and she knew I like "old things" gun related. What a wonderful gift! Very Happy











Box of 25 perfect shells! I suspect this is from the 1930's?
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ROMAC
PostPosted: Sat Sep 22, 2018 2:18 pm  Reply with quote



Joined: 07 Mar 2010
Posts: 482
Location: South Eastern PA

Those shells are newer than you think.

On another website I posted a picture of a similar but later box of the same shells.

In the thread, "Researcher" had this to say:

"Those Peters High-Velocity shells with the "New Peters Crimp" are 1947 to 1960. From 1947 to 55 the shells would have had the little paper load sticker over the crimp"

He is the most knowledgeable man I know of when it comes to just about anything gun related so I thought I'd throw this out there.

This was my picture:

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pjourn
PostPosted: Sun Sep 23, 2018 2:12 pm  Reply with quote



Joined: 04 Sep 2007
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Location: Idaho

I shot a partial box of those last year at Kansas roosters and a few quail out of my nitro special. They worked like a charm.
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John
PostPosted: Mon Sep 24, 2018 5:54 pm  Reply with quote



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An old man gave me a box of shells like that back in the 70's. They were magnums and held 1 1/4 oz of shot. I was just a kid then but shot all those up at squirrels. Still got the old box but wish it were full.

John
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John
PostPosted: Mon Sep 24, 2018 6:00 pm  Reply with quote



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An old man gave me a box of shells like that back in the 70's. They were magnums and held 1 1/4 oz of shot. I was just a kid then but shot all those up at squirrels. Still got the old box but wish it were full.

John
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PRONGHORNSOUTH
PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2018 3:52 pm  Reply with quote



Joined: 30 Dec 2012
Posts: 269
Location: Chocolate City, Florida

Very cool! Enjoy.
I'm guessing from the included flyer, they were manufactured soon after the "new" crimps started.
I bet, not many of those flyers survived.,,,
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Bronzebow
PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2018 6:05 pm  Reply with quote



Joined: 06 Oct 2012
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Location: East Texas

what an awesome gift. have a safe move.
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Jagdhund
PostPosted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 5:05 pm  Reply with quote
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Very nice.

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