Salmo Posted June 19, 2022 Report Share Posted June 19, 2022 Anybody used the above …….. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snow white Posted June 19, 2022 Report Share Posted June 19, 2022 About fifty years ago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wymberley Posted June 19, 2022 Report Share Posted June 19, 2022 12 minutes ago, snow white said: About fifty years ago Yep, and even then only for goose at Findhorn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dipper Posted June 19, 2022 Report Share Posted June 19, 2022 A mate of mine used maxi 5 paper cases years ago in his Black powder hammer gun . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratlegs Posted June 19, 2022 Report Share Posted June 19, 2022 My uncle used them in a converted pin fire damascus barrels forty years ago I would like a set of pinfire hammers and convert it back never fired this gun Made by Alfred Knight cant find much about him Ive still got a box bought thirty years ago kept some in seperate pocket in case a carrion came near when roost shooting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bishop Posted June 19, 2022 Report Share Posted June 19, 2022 We used to buy the odd box now and again for duck only when russian rounds were unobtainable.The poor mans alphamax.Still dropped duck though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rimfireboy Posted June 19, 2022 Report Share Posted June 19, 2022 I used to use them and grand prix, both good carts. Also alphamax but I think eley have stopped making alphamax now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snow white Posted June 19, 2022 Report Share Posted June 19, 2022 Bishop I still got a box of them Russian cartridges god when you let go with them in the dark couldn’t see ****** all for five minutes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salmo Posted June 19, 2022 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2022 These are the new ones 38 g only in 3s brought out about 18 months ago ( lead ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bishop Posted June 19, 2022 Report Share Posted June 19, 2022 2 hours ago, snow white said: Bishop I still got a box of them Russian cartridges god when you let go with them in the dark couldn’t see ****** all for five minutes. the 2 3/4 rto paper russians were awesome.we used them on everything. bit harsh on the ferreting though but rabbits running up the sea wall had no chance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6.5x55SE Posted June 19, 2022 Report Share Posted June 19, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, Salmo said: These are the new ones 38 g only in 3s brought out about 18 months ago ( lead ) Clear white case's and deep brass If so a good friend who now lives in Scotland shot plenty of Geese with them last season 👍 Edited June 19, 2022 by 6.5x55SE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salmo Posted June 19, 2022 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2022 Going to try them on really high pheasants Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krico woodcock Posted June 23, 2022 Report Share Posted June 23, 2022 The original "maximum" was a 34g gram load. Use to be the heaviest cartridge you could put through a 2.5" sxs. Great cartridge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rimfireboy Posted June 23, 2022 Report Share Posted June 23, 2022 3 hours ago, Krico woodcock said: The original "maximum" was a 34g gram load. Use to be the heaviest cartridge you could put through a 2.5" sxs. Great cartridge. Yerr, mine were 34 gram, I still have a box of maximum #5’s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6.5x55SE Posted June 23, 2022 Report Share Posted June 23, 2022 1 hour ago, Rimfireboy said: Yerr, mine were 34 gram, I still have a box of maximum #5’s. When i first shot eley maximum they was 1-3/16oz not this fangled 34 grams 😂 either way they certainly killed Geese and Duck in my younger shooting days 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busbiter Posted June 23, 2022 Report Share Posted June 23, 2022 More importantly, anyone got any Maximum 16 gauge going spare? 😇 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dipper Posted June 23, 2022 Report Share Posted June 23, 2022 Used a few years ago don’t think they made them for long . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
London Best Posted June 24, 2022 Report Share Posted June 24, 2022 (edited) 9 hours ago, dipper said: Used a few years ago don’t think they made them for long . Only for the entire second half of the 20th century. 32 gram load, if I remember correctly, or was that Alphamax 16’s? Edited June 24, 2022 by London Best Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dipper Posted June 24, 2022 Report Share Posted June 24, 2022 Alphamax were about for a long time but not Maximum 16s were only out for a very short time in the 60s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wymberley Posted June 24, 2022 Report Share Posted June 24, 2022 On 19/06/2022 at 21:25, Salmo said: Going to try them on really high pheasants Good for 45 yards as per BASC or perhaps 50 if you play the odds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
esetter Posted June 24, 2022 Report Share Posted June 24, 2022 18 hours ago, Krico woodcock said: The original "maximum" was a 34g gram load. Use to be the heaviest cartridge you could put through a 2.5" sxs. Great cartridge. Very popular cartridge in ireland for roughshooting. No7 Maximum was a killer in the first barrel for pheasants/woodcock. Still a few boxes to be got here and there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stimo22 Posted June 24, 2022 Report Share Posted June 24, 2022 This is a copy of Eley cartridges from 1978 and at that time they only did Maximum in BB,4,5,6 as per photo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salmo Posted June 24, 2022 Author Report Share Posted June 24, 2022 I’ve actually got red hymax The new maximums are 38g 3s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salmo Posted June 24, 2022 Author Report Share Posted June 24, 2022 The new maximums are 38g 3s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
esetter Posted June 24, 2022 Report Share Posted June 24, 2022 Eley Maximums were definitely made in 7's in the late eightys early ninetys.....orange cases, them and winchester western 6's were the cartridge of choice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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