Moskeetos ???

[ipscgraz]

Does anyone have any information on these half size clay targets?

I posted this in the rimfire thread as I was told they were used for rimfire shot cartridges. Judging from the newspaper they are wrapped in they are old as the hills.

Anyone know anything about them??

 

[3macs1]

I get sick to my stomach when ever I hear the word MOSKEETO. I have never played the game but have seen the targets many times over the years but honestly at the time never paid a lot of attention to them.
For me when the longgun registry was getting ready to be implemented there was talk about paying a yearly fee for every gun you owned just like a car so many collectors like I was at the time went through there guns and the old single shots,303's etc that we felt had no value got turned in by the arm load. In one of my piles was this strange looking gun with a boyscout crest set in to the stock and it was a smooth bore 22 cal strange I thought.
Any how it turned out to be a very rare winchester model 61 counter bore altered by Fred Routledge and made for moskeeto. Highly collectable and at that time since it was mint about a $3500 value. I almost puked when I found out and seen another for sale on gun broker many years later.
I would say your targets are 50's but could be earlier and here is some info on moskeeto from another form. take care
http://www.shotgunworld.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=136587

 

[Winchested]

They still use targets that size for mini throwers. I believe they are teal size.

 

[ipscgraz]

I get sick to my stomach when ever I hear the word MOSKEETO. I have never played the game but have seen the targets many times over the years but honestly at the time never paid a lot of attention to them.
For me when the longgun registry was getting ready to be implemented there was talk about paying a yearly fee for every gun you owned just like a car so many collectors like I was at the time went through there guns and the old single shots,303's etc that we felt had no value got turned in by the arm load. In one of my piles was this strange looking gun with a boyscout crest set in to the stock and it was a smooth bore 22 cal strange I thought.
Any how it turned out to be a very rare winchester model 61 counter bore altered by Fred Routledge and made for moskeeto. Highly collectable and at that time since it was mint about a $3500 value. I almost puked when I found out and seen another for sale on gun broker many years later.
I would say your targets are 50's but could be earlier and here is some info on moskeeto from another form. take care
http://www.shotgunworld.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=136587

Thanks 3macs

Enough information there on SG world.

I have 12 or 13 of these little clays...I don't know how long I have had'em but it is time to pass them along. Anybody collect oddball stuff like this? Toss me a PM.