royden Posted April 24, 2020 Report Share Posted April 24, 2020 I have quite a number of old cartridges including some brass that I have thought about mounting in a display case. My question is how do I stand legally for leaving the cartridges live or will I have to deactivate them somehow. My gut instinct tells me to deactivate them in case I get bored and want to get rid some time in the future. Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted April 24, 2020 Report Share Posted April 24, 2020 You do not need to deactivate them at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuartyboy Posted April 24, 2020 Report Share Posted April 24, 2020 You can legally possess shotgun cartridges without a certificate. No problem at all. only issue is if they have less than a certain amount of pellets of a certain size, then a firearm license is required to possess them. Would need to double check but it’s something like 5 or less pellets with something like a size of .36”??? so normal buck shot or bird shot but not single slug type Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farmboy91 Posted April 24, 2020 Report Share Posted April 24, 2020 If you do think of getting rid in the future they will be worth that little bit more of left live. Mounting, depending on how it's done can lessen the value, I see alot displays come up for sale but the vast majority of the cartridge's on them aren't worth squat. I wouldn't mount any of my valuable ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
royden Posted April 24, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 24, 2020 Thanks for the replies gents. To be honest I wouldn't know whats valuable Farmboy91 as I only collect them as curios. I started collecting different Eley cartridges but was fortunate enough to be in the right place at the right time and bought about 4000 cartridges of mixed origin. After a lot of sorting I ended up with .410 28 bore 20 bore 16 bore and loads of 12 bore. A lot of the twelves I put through my s/s after careful sorting but the complete boxes and oddments I keep. It seems a shame to keep them in a box and I have been trying to figure the best way to display them. I have tried to convince the bride of 40 years they would look great on a shelf in the living room .She didn't seem convinced and said something about a wheelie bin....Women eh... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farmboy91 Posted April 24, 2020 Report Share Posted April 24, 2020 14 minutes ago, royden said: Thanks for the replies gents. To be honest I wouldn't know whats valuable Farmboy91 as I only collect them as curios. I started collecting different Eley cartridges but was fortunate enough to be in the right place at the right time and bought about 4000 cartridges of mixed origin. After a lot of sorting I ended up with .410 28 bore 20 bore 16 bore and loads of 12 bore. A lot of the twelves I put through my s/s after careful sorting but the complete boxes and oddments I keep. It seems a shame to keep them in a box and I have been trying to figure the best way to display them. I have tried to convince the bride of 40 years they would look great on a shelf in the living room .She didn't seem convinced and said something about a wheelie bin....Women eh... That's a nice collection 👍 To be honest I collect for exactly the same reason, I've just been given a few over the last couple years that turned out to be worth something. Picking up 4000 at once is a right result haha. Im trying to stick to local cartridges and full boxes now as I'm running out of storage space. I've got half a dozen of my favourites on display but when we move I plan on having a few more out. Maybe you could suggest a shelf above the bed instead 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldypigeonpopper Posted April 24, 2020 Report Share Posted April 24, 2020 hello, i liked using those Maximums duck shooting in 5 shot, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest cookoff013 Posted April 24, 2020 Report Share Posted April 24, 2020 Hull chevron ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
royden Posted April 24, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 24, 2020 Never shot any Hull Chevron or the Eley Maximum.....I only have full boxes and it seems a shame to split em😄 maybe when ive got through the odds and **** I might give them a go. I did mention a shelf in the bedroom as suggested but she didn't seem too keen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enfieldspares Posted April 24, 2020 Report Share Posted April 24, 2020 (edited) The consideration that I would bear in mind is that live cartridges contain powder which is a risk were there to be a fire in that room. Not from being shot....that's not a risk at all....but of the powder accelerating the fire. It's easy enough to de-powder cartridges by inserting a sharpened hollow tube just above the metal head an making a hole in the cartridge. Then tip the powder out. A bonus is that you can then use a dowel of the same diameter as a peg to mount the cartridge in your display board if you drill its back. The primer if needed can be usually successfully neutralised by a squirt of oil down its flash hole. Edited April 24, 2020 by enfieldspares Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
royden Posted April 24, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 24, 2020 Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busbiter Posted May 4, 2020 Report Share Posted May 4, 2020 On 24/04/2020 at 19:07, royden said: Thanks for the replies gents. To be honest I wouldn't know whats valuable Farmboy91 as I only collect them as curios. I started collecting different Eley cartridges but was fortunate enough to be in the right place at the right time and bought about 4000 cartridges of mixed origin. After a lot of sorting I ended up with .410 28 bore 20 bore 16 bore and loads of 12 bore. A lot of the twelves I put through my s/s after careful sorting but the complete boxes and oddments I keep. It seems a shame to keep them in a box and I have been trying to figure the best way to display them. I have tried to convince the bride of 40 years they would look great on a shelf in the living room .She didn't seem convinced and said something about a wheelie bin....Women eh... Intrigued in what exactly is in those red Eley boxes... any chance of another picture of the contents? Have you got any unusual 16 bore cartridges also? Always on the look out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
royden Posted May 4, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 4, 2020 As requested busbiter. Cant remember opening these before but didn't expect what I found. Don't know if these are the correct cartridges for these boxes even though I have two the same but I thought they would have had Eley on the headstamp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
royden Posted May 4, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 4, 2020 And could someone please tell me how to reduce the size of my files so that I can put more than one picture up at a time...…...🥴🥳 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farmboy91 Posted May 4, 2020 Report Share Posted May 4, 2020 20 minutes ago, royden said: As requested busbiter. Cant remember opening these before but didn't expect what I found. Don't know if these are the correct cartridges for these boxes even though I have two the same but I thought they would have had Eley on the headstamp. £2.50, bargain! Try taking a screenshot of the original photo then uploading it 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
royden Posted May 4, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 4, 2020 Thanks for the suggestion Farmboy91 but you are trying to teach a near Neanderthal to fiddle with a keyboard so please excuse the next giant size picture I manage to get on. And yes I would buy them all day at that price..lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farmboy91 Posted May 4, 2020 Report Share Posted May 4, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, royden said: Thanks for the suggestion Farmboy91 but you are trying to teach a near Neanderthal to fiddle with a keyboard so please excuse the next giant size picture I manage to get on. And yes I would buy them all day at that price..lol 😂 I'm no better. That option only works on the phone, the other way I have found round it is to send the pictures to my partner and her sending them back to me, for some reason they shrink during the process. So she currently has a 101 pictures of guns and cartridges etc on her phone. I've got some plastic Eley grand prix's that a priced at £3.02, if only we had a time machine eh? Looking forward to your next post 👍 Edited May 4, 2020 by Farmboy91 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B725 Posted May 4, 2020 Report Share Posted May 4, 2020 34 minutes ago, Farmboy91 said: 😂 I'm no better. That option only works on the phone, the other way I have found round it is to send the pictures to my partner and her sending them back to me, for some reason they shrink during the process. So she currently has a 101 pictures of guns and cartridges etc on her phone. I've got some plastic Eley grand prix's that a priced at £3.02, if only we had a time machine eh? Looking forward to your next post 👍 Download the free app. Photo & Picture Resizer ,select the picture you want tap 50% then when you want to upload one just select from file job done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farmboy91 Posted May 4, 2020 Report Share Posted May 4, 2020 50 minutes ago, B725 said: Download the free app. Photo & Picture Resizer ,select the picture you want tap 50% then when you want to upload one just select from file job done I'll give that a look, thanks 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7daysinaweek Posted May 4, 2020 Report Share Posted May 4, 2020 32 minutes ago, Farmboy91 said: I'll give that a look, thanks 👍 I use webresizer, it compresses images up to 95%, I can upload multiple images into a post. https://www.google.com/search?q=webresizer&oq=we&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j0j69i57j69i59j0l2j46j0.2686j1j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farmboy91 Posted May 4, 2020 Report Share Posted May 4, 2020 That looks fairly simple to use, cheers 👍. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
royden Posted May 5, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2020 These are a few more cartridges from my collection. The small one sitting on top of the 16 bore Eley Grand Prix is a centre fire paper case that is smaller than a .410 ..could it be 9mm. Also does anyone know of any books that may be helpful in identifying and dating some of the cartridges available. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farmboy91 Posted May 6, 2020 Report Share Posted May 6, 2020 Nice 👍 Cartridge's of the British isles by Ken Rutterford is a great book to start with, it has 100's and 100's of black and white drawings and designs. A century of the history of shotgun cartridges by Guy n Smith looks good too. I haven't got a copy yet but I was talking to one of the main contributors a little while back and from what he was saying it contains a lot of colour photos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hanky Posted May 7, 2020 Report Share Posted May 7, 2020 On 05/05/2020 at 22:22, royden said: These are a few more cartridges from my collection. The small one sitting on top of the 16 bore Eley Grand Prix is a centre fire paper case that is smaller than a .410 ..could it be 9mm. Also does anyone know of any books that may be helpful in identifying and dating some of the cartridges available. Thanks. Sent you PM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lever357 Posted May 10, 2020 Report Share Posted May 10, 2020 That's a great collection of full boxes, some nice ones there. There is a group on facebook i am a member of and there are a few very knowledgeable people on there. Just search cartridge collectors Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.