Eightbore

This may help you, scan of part of the original data sheets.

That's what I have heard too. Seems to be still under review as to its designation and acceptance.

Same here, and welcome from one newbie to another

A sample of some old cartridges.

Out of interest you can buy NEW brass pinfires in quite a few gauge at reasonable prices then you can load them as many times as you want. As long as you look after them of course. So don't even think of buying old cardboard cartridges to reload for shooting.

Well Mr. WB. thanks for the welcome. Try to enjoy it, in fact sure I will. BTW My misses says I collect too much old junk too but when I offered to get ride of some "her" didn't work :o

You are right you need to be doing 1,000's to really see the saving. 30 years ago you could save a fortune now the saving is not so great, if a few of you club together and buy and load in bulk then you will save money. Given a good loading machine and having everything to hand a couple of you can load a 1,000 or more in an evening. Where good savings can be made is on the larger gauges and ofcourse the "obsolete" size cartridges. I save £'s on the eight's but they are all loaded by hand and take much longer.

Most old cartridges are worth something, more so with the box than without it. Idiots like me collect them

These were not sample hand out's, this is how they were sold to the masses. They contain a phosphorus "tracer" in the centre of the shot load which was supposed to show you where you were shooting, most of the time you could not see it. Cost a fortune (5 cost about the same as 25 cartridges did) and didn't work very often, as was said before somebody stood behind you done a much better job The phosphorus is poisonous and not really good to eat :o They are collectable and the full box will be worth more. I think they went out of production in the late 60's early 70's (keep the box too some people collect them also) Got a list with the price on somewhere if you want to know what they cost when new.