12g Imperial paper hull

Big Bad said:
I remember the first ads for plastic shells I saw pictured a smiling duck hunter confidently holding one up in the pouring rain, and it did seem like a huge advantage,
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I have a great uncle who lost a finger trying to keep the water out of the muzzle of his shotgun while hunting seabirds in Newfoundland back in the day to keep his paper shells dry..

I think he's a big proponent of plastic shells now.
 
Big Bad said:
SG, SSG, and LG are examples of the ridiculously obscure systems the British in particular and Victorians in general loved to set up in place of something that would allow easy identification of what you had, and if you didn't know the code you were helpless. Another example is the letter system flyfishing lines used to be classified with, something I had to learn at one time when I inherited antique equipment and/or was talking to Brits. I've completely forgotten how it actually worked now, but different weights and tapers were coded with letters, so you'd read something like AAGGGBBF instead of 'forward taper 6 weight floating line.'
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Agree. Like SSG was the short version for special small game in england
Their small game must have been deer sized
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3macs1 said:
Agree. Like SSG was the short version for special small game in england
Their small game must have been deer sized
Cheers
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After watching a British chef on YouTube butcher UK deer I think it’s more of a their deer are small game sized lol, their Roe and Muntjacs are tiny compared to North American deer.

AlbertaJohn said:
I have some old 16 gauge paper shells. Imperial and Canuck in #4 and #6 plus a few slugs.

To bad I don't have the original boxes for them.

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Lucky you, I’d have a hard time not shooting them.
 
I have lots of random paper and random beat up boxes .
I sell them for what I can or shoot them!
most times you cannot reload them because if of pinholes at the brass but they are gun,
i haven’t shot the really old Maxims though
Cat
 
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