Value of full boxes of 12 gauge shotgun shells from the 1960's
- Thread starter SP-01
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No special value. I shoot stuff like that all the time and pay about $10 per box for it.
Agree. 10 bucks is the norm with the odd buyer 12-15 max.
CoryTheCowboy
CGN Regular
I agree with the others. About $10 is what I'd pay for them. (Though I'd keep the boxes in good shape because I think they're neat 
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Cory
)Cory
Two piece boxes and paper small gauge like 410 and 28 are where the bucks are. Also 8 and 10ga Years back I listed some small gauge two piece just boxes on evil bay thinking I may get 20 bucks and they sold for over 200. I watch for 2 piece boxes
Just one example this 10ga 2 piece box just sold for $600 US and no not mine.
I watch for 2 piece boxesJust one example this 10ga 2 piece box just sold for $600 US and no not mine.
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Seeing as how you can buy target loads for about $6/box, and even 'field' loads for under $10, the value there is not that it is ammunition, but vintage ammunition in original boxes. That's the start of a nice collection. Just keep it and/or display it. It's made it this far, keep it rolling.
Turkeyslayer 1300
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I pay 3$ for old shells like that. Not much use for old ducks loads except shooting varmints and even then one box will do for quite awhile.
I was once given 9500 Imperials, Canuks and S&B's by a friend who runs an upland preserve. Loaded them in the back of my mom's ford station wagon, it would bottom out on even the smallest bump.
Still have a case of 6's left for old times sake.
I was once given 9500 Imperials, Canuks and S&B's by a friend who runs an upland preserve. Loaded them in the back of my mom's ford station wagon, it would bottom out on even the smallest bump.
Still have a case of 6's left for old times sake.
3.00 a box. Oh MY GOD they are worth more than that just for sniffing after they are fired
Cranky Pants
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Given 9500 shells? Man, I need friends like that! Hmmm, what did you do for that? Promise to stay away from his woman?
Ok 3 macs1 this is a couple times you have mentioned the sweet aroma from the paper shells, now I'm going to have to burn off a couple old paper rounds to check it out!
Ok 3 macs1 this is a couple times you have mentioned the sweet aroma from the paper shells, now I'm going to have to burn off a couple old paper rounds to check it out!
madtrapper143
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The Canucks would smell good. The Selliers would be rank if they were like the old Pionka's I shot as a kid. My dad said the shells smelled like the wads were rolled horse hair. BUT they killed well and cost this country boy 1.99 for 25 at good old Canadian Tire in 1975.
Darryl
Darryl
gunsaholic
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Yes ,there is something about the aroma of old paper shells after they have been fired. Kind of like smelling a good pipe tobacco.
badgreenbird
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- Dawson Creek, BC
agreed... I remember hunting partridge with my dad... he used those old S&B cardboard shells and the smell wafting from the spent shell on a calm frosty morning is engrained in my memory. I spent a wad of cash to get some of those exact same shells and will have a go at the partridge this fall!
3.00 a box. Oh MY GOD they are worth more than that just for sniffing after they are fired
3 MACS1. I see you have been there and done that. I have always fired an old paper canuck or imperial on a warm fall day while grouse hunting just to take me back 55 years and all the memories come flooding back. great post my friend. GLENN
Many times my friend
and still try every year with a few rounds of paper imperial and the old 16ga. I would say early to mid 60's I started.Sit on the same big old rock I did back then and as you say the memories of hunting with my dad come back like it was yesterday. As you know seems like we blink and 50 years have passed. Take care
blasted_saber
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- A blue part of Ontario
I like using the old boxes around the gun room for holding gun parts, chokes, choke wrenches etc. Keeps things tidy, looks good, and is gun related.
I love the old imperials.
Great shells
I love the old imperials.
Great shells
Turkeyslayer 1300
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- Russell, Ontario
Given 9500 shells? Man, I need friends like that! Hmmm, what did you do for that? Promise to stay away from his woman?
Ok 3 macs1 this is a couple times you have mentioned the sweet aroma from the paper shells, now I'm going to have to burn off a couple old paper rounds to check it out!
^ weeks of work raising pheasants and chukar,shooting pests, building pens and shooting with him. He paid me by the hour and gave me the shells at the end. I was a just a bird killer before those 6 weeks, I was a sportsman afterwards.
I really learned to shoot a shotgun that year also didn't practice with target loads,only 1 1/4 ounce of 2's,4's and 5's. Saved the 6's for hunting. We would sit in the barn yard and throw clays straight away from us into a field and see how far we could break them, 70 -80 yards was not impossible once you figured out the hold over.
My dream is to own a property like his and preserve the way of life he showed me, he is a true conservationist and gentleman and I am lucky to count him among my friends.
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