Found some cool shotgun shells

[Doogs]

I recently came across some cool old paper shotgun shells. They are 12 guage, no 6 & 7 shot, marked Azot Made in USSR. They have a drawing of a duck taking off on the paper part. Really neat looking, I'll take a picture as soon as I find the camera cable, but for now here is a low quality Google image of an identical one

Are these worth anything to anybody?

 

[sunray]

No collector value. Any idea how they've been stored?

 

[Outwest1213]

I bought a box of these exact same shells yesterday from the gun auction. $2 a box. No idea how old they are.

 

[Doogs]

No collector value. Any idea how they've been stored?

Indoors in a closet

 

[legi0n]

Indoors in a closet

that's not really helpful.
some basements where stuff is stored in closets are quite humid.

 

[Outwest1213]

No collector value. Any idea how they've been stored?

If there's no collectors value does it really matter? Put them in the gun and pull trigger, either they go bang or click and throw in garbage.

 

[madtrapper143]

Canadian Tire sold a lot of those in the late '70's. They shoot well. I swear the wads are made of horsehair as they smell like a barn fire when you shoot them.

Darryl

 

[bearhunter]

As mentioned, there isn't any collector value in them. Take them out and shoot them. That cartridge looks just fine to me. The paper isn't swollen at all and the wax coating still looks good. Back in the day I shot a lot of that stuff because it was cheap. Mind you, back then we could use it for migratory game birds. That is no longer the case so the companies that were importing the stuff quit bringing it in.

It was good ammo. Loaded on the hot side and gave good patterns out of my shotguns. Lots of people like the lead shot for use in their tactical style shotguns.

 

[Magellann]

I had some of those a few years ago, took them duck hunting and blasted them all off. I also had a couple boxes of some Polish shotshells as well that I used up.

 

[silverfoxdj]

Canadian Tire sold a lot of those in the late '70's. They shoot well. I swear the wads are made of horsehair as they smell like a barn fire when you shoot them.

Darryl

+1 yup had a box when I got my shotty there back in the day.. gave the gun away with the rest of the box..

 

[3macs1]

Canadian Tire sold a lot of those in the late '70's. They shoot well. I swear the wads are made of horsehair as they smell like a barn fire when you shoot them.

Darryl

I could not remember who sold them but remember they stink as you say
Cheers

 

[Outwest1213]

Canadian Tire sold a lot of those in the late '70's. They shoot well. I swear the wads are made of horsehair as they smell like a barn fire when you shoot them.

Darryl

I will shoot some off this week and do the smell test.lol thanks for the heads up.

 

[Diligence]

Shot cases of these in the early 80's --- don't remember the burning barn smell though..lol

 

[Tazzy]

Haven't seen too many of these around. I only have one.

 

[3macs1]

Haven't seen too many of these around. I only have one.

Nope that is for sure over this way. German made ?? and looking at yours a salemans or display sample
Probally paper with a paper crimp with a number for shot size and length in mm on the top or is that a slug I see
More than likely pre ww2 since they started making them in 1923 but if you want to know for sure on the brass the stampings convert to a date code which you should be able to transfer to a chart
Cheers