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< 16ga. Ammunition & Reloading ~ Older boxes of shells |
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Wed Dec 25, 2019 4:26 pm
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Location: Central MN
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There is about 7 boxes of older 16ga shells for sale at my local gun store. They are in decent condition. They are federal 2 3/4” #6 from the 60’s if I had to guess. Labeled duck and pheasant load. They are part of a much larger lot of older ammunition that the shop owner bought.
Any idea what to offer on the 7 boxes? |
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Wed Dec 25, 2019 6:27 pm
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Location: Maine
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Duck and pheasant loads are good hunting loads, even if you can't legally use them on ducks any more. I've gotten them at gun shows for between $6 and $10 the box. I would offer $7 and see whether the seller bites. |
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Wed Dec 25, 2019 6:35 pm
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I'd offer $5/box. He might be glad to get rid of the "oddball shells." |
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Wed Dec 25, 2019 9:30 pm
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Would they be paper by chance? |
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Fri Dec 27, 2019 6:33 am
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Not paper.
Thanks guys! |
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Tue Dec 31, 2019 11:38 am
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Bought most of what he had today.
All but the winchester box are full, it’s missing 2.
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Tue Dec 31, 2019 12:35 pm
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I no longer have any of the Win MK V's left of what I got from Dad. Had 1 1/8 oz in both 12 and 16 ga and always had great luck with them.
Have a partial box from him of the Federal high power in the first pic on the far right but have never tried them because of the 16gauges bad rep with 4's.
Have always wondered if there is any difference in the various Federal 1 1/8 oz over the years including current production. Nice haul anyway! |
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Tue Dec 31, 2019 12:53 pm
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Would anyone know roughly when these where manufactured? |
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Tue Dec 31, 2019 2:49 pm
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I would have gladly bought them just for the boxes. I’m not a collector but just appreciate the older styling. |
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Tue Dec 31, 2019 3:24 pm
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I did buy them just to look at. Looking at adding a new shelf somewhere in the basement.
I currently have this built in full of memorabilia mostly from my grandpa.
He does have 2 more boxes of the federal #6. The only 16ga I currently have is the new style A5 and feel it’s sacrilege to shoot these shells though it. |
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Tue Dec 31, 2019 5:11 pm
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Chute, LizaBeth, Chute
Well done
Ammo is good ammo
I use the #6 shot for pigeons
Mike |
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Tue Dec 31, 2019 6:23 pm
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Emtymag wrote: |
Would anyone know roughly when these where manufactured?
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...Often the boxes will have a date code on one of the flaps |
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Tue Dec 31, 2019 6:31 pm
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Wed Jan 01, 2020 2:57 pm
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EMag,
My advice, look 'em over before you buy them.
Word gets out that one is a 16 gauge man, and I periodically have old ammo given to me by people who don't have anything to shoot it in anymore. The most recent batch I had given to me was 4 boxes; 2 of old 57 primer Remingtons, 1 of CF Winchester Mark 5's and 1 of Federals.
The 57 primed Remingtons are still in excellent shape, all are good. The CF Mark 5's are mostly good, but a few had bad corrosion on the brass. The Federals are mostly bad, with either bad corrosion on the brass, or the ribbed cases splitting near the crimp. I'll eventually recycle the shot in these shells.
There is rarely any reason not to use old ammo, unless it has problems like mentioned above. I have shot a lot of it over the years, and still do. Recently, I reloaded a bunch of old paper hulls with fiber wads to shoot in my Ithaca NID (older guns with tight chokes generally pattern more open with fiber wad shells). The paper Mark 5 Winchesters probably date to the 50s or early 60s and the older Western "brush loads" probably date to prior to 1950. I've shot over a box of these reloads at quail this year, and they are doing fine. All are good for at least another reload.
The shells you are buying were probably made around 1975, plus or minus 10 years. For some, the CF Winnies are the prize of the lot.
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[/url]bad shells by Michael Widner, on Flickr |
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Wed Jan 01, 2020 6:05 pm
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Thanks guys.
All but one of the rounds are in good shape.
These will all be going on a shelf.
Seems they are all from the mid ‘60s to mid ‘70s. |
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