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When I was a kid I was shooting mad but nobody in my family had a gun so we used to roam Waddesdon Estate looking for cartridges that had been left - I once found a Hull 3 crowns paper case that still smelled of powder and I treasured that case for years so that's my choice. On another plane I was always in awe of Winchester Silver when I started shooting as they were so darned expensive and one day treated myself to a box - must have been mid eighties and still got the box with 23 shells in it - too precious to ever shoot :innocent:

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Rottweil Game 32 in the brown cases were my favourites

As far as I can tell, I'm pretty sure that the current Special 12F are the replacements for these superb cartridges. Just coming to the end of my last purchase and they certainly appear to be the same. Hard to locate, but I've just bought a load more from the Gun Shop in Rugby.

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As far as I can tell, I'm pretty sure that the current Special 12F are the replacements for these superb cartridges. Just coming to the end of my last purchase and they certainly appear to be the same. Hard to locate, but I've just bought a load more from the Gun Shop in Rugby.

I'll have to try to find some and give them a go

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Rottweil MKII HV 30g 5s are my all time favourite - they hit like flying anvils.

yeah.

 

i used the same style shell from rottweil, #2 and #4s for ground game 36g loads. hits like a freight train.

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I used to like Winchester Trap 200. Excellent on the clays (when I connected) and also good on Corvid's too.

All my friends used them (32g 7.5 plastic wad) through A1 Brownings with plenty of choke for all their shooting, ducks to pheasants to sporting clays and all in between with great success. Birds aren't any higher nowadays and everyone seems to need a 4-5 shot cartridge.

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I loved the packs of 10 S&B cartridges, the 2.3/4" with the rolled turnover were best. The Mark11 were never as good. The packs of 10 Baikal Records ( I still have some) were take two asprins before and after shooting, if you mixed one of these cartridges into a cartridge bag of 100 cases, you will know when you fire the Baikal.

The paper Eley Alphamax 2.3/42 or 3" were good cartridges. , Anyone ever sniff the empty case of a paper Eley Grand Prix ! LOL, a smell I remember to this day, used to sit next to my dad shooting with his double hammer gun flighting pigeons in a local wood, and sniff the empty cases as he fired them. Aye the good old days.

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First time I ever shot a shotgun was using my late grandfathers, therefore then my dads uggie SBS using what ever carts were left in my grandads old leather cartridge belt that was recovered from the stash in his larder. Would have been around 10 at the time.

 

Remember paper cased Eley Grand Prix and the smell they made. Will Never forget that.

 

Along with the first walked up rabbit i took with them. (Full of mixxie and managed about 2 yards before been barrelled, cried for an hour after that first kill) lol

 

Still got the gun and the cartridge belt, wish I'd kept some of the carts. Sure there were a few impax along with the Grand Prix.

 

Also remember my dad getting a box of Rottweil carts, green case, 30g ish something load. Kicked like hell but the kills were exceptional.

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Several things. The smell of the Eley paper cartridges. The all plastic Rottweil cartridges that came in a cardboard box of 200 loose. The superb little black Rottweil club 20 cartridges and the Baikal's. I shot the pink ones and I thought that they were a good cartridge and then the viscious and explosive black ones. With the large muzzle flash and the loud bang that would launch the shot to take down birds that were so high up that they were on oxygen.

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