Russian Record Cartridges

[Westley]

Used to buy them in their thousands from Edgar Bros. (Liverpool then ) They came well packed in wooden cases. I still have some of the packing cases in my loft.They did a 7/8th ozs. red paper case with a rolled turnover. Brilliant on pigeon over deeks. Had to be careful over laid corn though, fire hazard !

Edited March 26, 2014 by Westley

[snarepeg]

Shot my first left and right on pink feet with these in BB,

First beacon walking from Witton to Alkboro on the Humber, thick fog and there where a lot of geese,this would be about 1960.

 

We called them Lion killers, shook the guns loose in the end, happy days. John

[Underdog]

Anyone remember the S&B cartridges too? Loads of useless info printed on them I recall. I loved them too.

[FatFreddysCat]

Pic of Sellior& Bellot, these had 10 lines of tiny unreadable writing on the case tell of how good there were. Post #49 asked about Maionchi and Gytorp. In pic too. This may be the orange cased 20 referred to.

 

Every different box or cartridges I've ever used, I've kept one back for my collection. I've got 2 boxes going back 40 yrs.

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[Old farrier]

Like these

All the best

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[Dan.lord]

I remember my first time shooting a 12 bore, back in the early 80's, it was a baikal side by side with the record black plastic cartridges wow what a learning curve, almost blew my shoulder off I was on a YOP scheme at the time so price meant everything, & the amount my brother & I used to get through these were really the only option We used to shoot clay's at a local farm, & one day the farmers son came over to have a shoot with us & enquired what we were using, so we naturally gave him a few to try. He fired one, winced like hell & gave us the rest back Never had any not fire though, just remember having a massive cleaning session afterwards I remember on the box that they had recoil-less & smokeless printed trades description act slightly bent there I'd say Happy days

Edited May 5, 2014 by Dan.lord

[David Q]

As a skint farmhand (1988) I bought my first shotgun from a dealer in Worthing, West Sussex.

It was a Baikal under and over, cost me £120 new, and I still have it and use it (not often enough) today.

The same dealer also sold me Record cartridges.

The extra weight of the Baikal certainly helped, recoil wise, but the Record cartridges, coupled with the slightly tighter choke (Russian full choke is tighter than standard) gave it an unmatched killing range against my colleagues' guns.

The auto-eject springs on the Baikal also meant that spent cases where hurled, with considerable force, about twenty feet behind. About ten years ago I finally got round to taming the auto-eject by fitting Beretta springs.

Since '88 I've put somewhere in the region of ten thousand cartridges through the Baikal and it's action has only improved.

I miss the Record cartridges with their heat seal on the crimp but know that my local shooting ground would get funny about the muzzle flash and the smoke (but not necessarily about the noise).