Cartridges from yesteryear.

[Minky]

This afternoon I went to a friends to shoot a few clays and after he made me a cup of tea.  He dragged out a box of old paper cartridges.  Some old 8 bore paper cases and an amount of paper pin fire cases.  I don't know how old they are but they were in pretty good condition.  I don't know anything about how pin fire cartridges were loaded or if they could be reloaded.  a few pictures.  A good item from many years ago.

 

 

[TIGHTCHOKE]

There's some very old bits and pieces in that lot.

[Minky]

I wonder where these 8 bore cases were shot and how many ducks or geese they accounted for.

[Minky]

12 minutes ago, TIGHTCHOKE said:

There's some very old bits and pieces in that lot.

He's got a LOT of random stuff.  Considering how old these 8 bore cases must be, most of them are in really like as new condition.  I fired off a few old 12 bore Eley Grand Prix Indian orange paper cases at the clays and they all went bang and absolutely dusted the clays.  a couple of them had the old ICI head stamp.  Those old 12G ICI head stamp cases must go back into the 60s at least.  The 8 Bore cases had been a roll turnover load and were probably 3,1/2 inch long.  In that lot there were 13x8 bore,  15 various pin fire.. 11x28G, 1x20G, 1x16G, 2x14G, 3x12G, and 1x10G.  Some old history there.  Most of the pinafore were French, Possibly Fortuna head stamp.  A couple of Eley bros, A Steven Grant.  history from a long forgotten time.

Edited October 2 by Minky

[NoBodyImportant]

I love old ammo.  I buy random lots at yard sales and flee markets.